Privacy concerns may hinder medical smart cards in the U.S, reports Technology Review. However, those same concerns don’t apply to foreign countries. 

Utah’s four major hospitals recently announced a new statewide-shared medical information system.

Aetna Foundation and conference Health 2.0 have teamed up to issue a challenge to developers, reports Healthcare IT News. The challenge asks developers to design a new interactive browser-based application that makes obesity information accessible and usable. The top prize is $25,000.