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mHealth tools and services play an important role in the nation's migration to a patient-centered healthcare system. After all, what better way to empower a consumer than to give him/her access to healthcare records and healthcare providers through his or her smartphone or tablet? This infographic from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics illustrates just how far we've come.

As hospital guests and clinicians compete for WiFi, Detroit's Henry Ford Health System finds that constant monitoring is necessary.

Rob Fisher of InTouch Health - developers of the innovative RP-VITA healthcare robot - explains how the country's changing demographics should spur growth in a rapidly improving telemedicine industry.

The Mobile Pscyho-social Interventions discussion at the HIMSS Media mHealth Summit looks at the potential for games to reduce risk through behavioral change.

By building out its home-monitoring products, scheduling and patient-check in software with a fresh injection of funding, one vendor is hoping to better engage both patients and doctors.