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McAfee researchers show just how easy it is to hack into devices -- but new MedCrypt data shows government guidance may be putting device manufacturers on the right trajectory to shore up this real threat.

Metcalfe will keynote the Health 2.0 Annual Fall Conference in September, where she will be talking about ways technology and biology could alter the human race.

Apple is looking to hire engineers to develop a custom chip for more sophisticated health information tracking and applications, according to a CNBC report. CNBC said it got the information from a job posting from Apple’s Health Sensing hardware team. The July 10 job summary is for sensor ASIC architects to design, develop and launch next generation sensor technologies to enable interaction with users and the environment. Developing its own chip would also be a way for Apple to protect its intellectual property, the report said, and the custom sensor would be expected to measure information from the body. While Apple iPhones and Watch already have health-monitoring features, such as heart rate detection capabilities, the current pinnacle of optical sensing technology would be a chip for continuous blood sugar monitoring. Apple and rivals including Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft are all building technologies that have the potential to transform the delivery of care. Amazon’s recent collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to form an as-yet unidentified healthcare venture, for instance, is being closely watched as a major disruptor. Alphabet, IBM, Google, Microsoft Oracle and Salesforce just this week announced that they are undertaking the interoperability of electronic health records. And Alphabet invested $375 million in Oscar Health, with which the insurer plans to get into the Medicare Advantage business. Over the last five years, healthcare funding among the 10 largest IT companies in the United States has increased from $277 million to $2.7 billion, according to Business Insider. Twitter: @SusanJMorse Email the writer: susan.morse@himssmedia.com

The British Heart Foundation plans to appoint a convenor to drive efforts informing a proposal for the development of the new cardiovascular data science centre.

Several news stories have questioned what reported struggles with the cognitive platform mean for the larger idea of AI in healthcare.

With more than 700 developers now in the Blue Button sandbox, officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Digital Service say we are just scratching the surface of what the API-first approach can accomplish.

Republic County Hospital in Kansas freed itself from buying new equipment every few years and improved the software’s ease of use for clinicians.

With a GitHub site coming and new developer challenges, the agencies are the latest to engage the developer community.

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals what makes the best innovators succeed.

Speaking at the White House, she said the potential of what unleashed health data could do for the country is "really unimaginable."