To understand how the American health-care system is about to change, forget Washington. Look to the innovative companies hard at work on the future. The Supreme Court may have upheld the Affordable Care Act, but the future of the American health care system remains...

Are you keeping an eye on your moles? Really, though? In light of the shortage of dermatologists, a market has developed to augment DIY monitoring of skin anomalies of all sorts. Instagram filters not recommended. skinofmine.com Forty-two percent of Americans live in...

The last time I went to the doctor, I sat in the waiting room, tapping away at my iPhone (s aapl) and sighing under my breath, for almost an hour. Maybe that’s extreme (for non-emergency room visits at least) but even the national average, according to a recent...

For as long as people have been talking about the World Wide Web, they’ve been talking about telemedicine, or using internet technologies to connect doctors with patients who are in remote areas or confined to their homes. But despite all the talk, little has actually...