A week after Hurricane Sandy struck, with snowflakes set to start falling, the hospital is poised to roll out its mobile satellite emergency department.

Northern Ireland's health minister will be in Boston with dozens of other European health leaders this week, and he's hoping to build the province's tech reputation and talking of some of his agency's IT and mobile health initiatives.

What some considered unrealistic just three years ago is now gaining purchase in almost every major hospital, a speaker at the NYeC Digital Health Conference said.

The $4.4 million order will help VA ramp up the number of mobile devices it can manage, both federally purchased and BYOD.

The real potential for digitized healthcare information is putting patients at the center of their care, but that can’t happen until data can move within the healthcare system more efficiently, and be more thoroughly analyzed, better presented.