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Comedic jolts about drugs, diarrhea, the incredibly short lifespan of wearables and more from this week's conference.

All the smart devices in the world won't advance care if the data remains invisible. Which means that consumers must be compelled, and it has to become easier for them to collect and share their own health information.

The hospital's first-ever chief innovation officer wants to see more wearables, fewer health and fitness apps, and more mobile connections between clinicians to leverage basic information.

Analytical grading comes to health apps, with the aim of supplementing the physician-patient interaction.

The developer of a platform that mines social media data to track infectious diseases says it can be used to monitor everything from the flu to food poisoning.