Apple iOS 8/2, which was released in beta form to developers last week, contains notes indicating that blood glucose tracking will be included as a feature, reports Forbes.

The recent hack of Sony Corp. is bringing to light how much electronic health data proliferates outside of the medical setting, according to Bloomberg.  

Health Catalyst, a Utah-based data warehousing and analytics company, is partnering with Microsoft to deploy data warehouse and analytics solutions for the healthcare sector, according to Clinical Innovation + Technology.

Developers of wearable technology have had their fair share of reality checks recently, reports Forbes.

Mobile communications giant Blackberry and NantHealth, a cloud-based big data health company, have unveiled a clinical genome browser that gives physicians unprecedented access to patients’ genetic data on the BlackBerry Passport smartphone, reports VentureBeat. 

Despite taking in $600 million in federal investment, it remains uncertain whether the promised benefits of health information exchanges will be being realized, according to a RAND Corp. study. 

Alarm hazards rank first on the ECRI Institute’s top 10 list of medical technology concerns for 2015, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate would exempt regulation of EHRs and certain types of decision support software, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.