Researchers are developing an mHealth wearable that might someday take the sting out of vaccine shots and make them more effective as well.
Teams from Stanford University and the University of North...
An mHealth project launched in 2020 to track depression on Apple devices is expanding to measure mental health status, including cognitive decline.
The University of California at Los Angeles...
Telehealth and mHealth services will figure prominently in a recently announced project by several large corporations to create a healthcare platform directed at the Black community.
Doctor On Demand,...
Healthcare providers who focus on substance abuse and addiction recovery services are learning to use telehealth to improve access to care during a pandemic. Many are finding advantages to virtual care...
A federal review has found that no state Medicaid programs are analyzing how telehealth affects the quality of behavioral health services even though many are offering virtual care coverage during the...
Four Arizona hospitals and two free-standing emergency health centers have launched an mHealth platform that gives patients and their families real-time updates on their mobile devices about wait times...
Telehealth advocates are petitioning lawmakers to boost the budget for the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers (TRCs), noting they’ve seen an 800 percent increase in business...
Federal authorities are awarding $15 million in rescue plan funding to 20 states to help expand mobile health intervention services for Medicaid patients in crisis.
The planning grants, administered...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to launch a massive expansion of its remote patient monitoring program to expand care and treatment of veterans in their own homes.
The VA has filed a...
Telehealth advocates are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to amend the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule to permanently extend emergency measures on telehealth access and...
Telehealth and mHealth will play an important role in a massive research project being launched by the National Institutes of Health to analyze the long-term effects of COVID-19.
The NIH announced...
Mount Sinai researchers used wearable devices to monitor physiological effects in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that high resilience and emotional support are linked to a...
Telehealth use by physicians jumped from 25 percent in 2018 to almost 80 percent in 2020, while almost 85 percent of psychiatrists connected with the patients via video visit or telephone during the...
A proposed bill to expand telehealth services in Alaska to deal with the ongoing pandemic has died, and its supporters are blaming partisan politics.
SB 3006, recently introduced by Governor Mike...
Federal officials are ditching a plan to speed up Medicare coverage for innovative mHealth technology, saying the Trump-era plan would have put patients at risk.
The Centers for Medicare &...
A professor at the University of Houston has received a $3.7 million BRAIN initiative grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to further his research and medical device...
With only about 10 percent of the nation’s federally qualified health centers having psychiatrists or licensed clinical psychologists on staff, a telehealth platform could improve access for...
With schools returning to in-person learning or juggling remote options, the Biden Administration is investing more than $5 million in school-based health centers that often use telehealth to help...
Mount Sinai Health System has introduced a new mHealth app to improve patient data access, enhance patient-provider communication, and create a centralized platform for all patient healthcare...
With remote patient monitoring projects surging in popularity as a result of the pandemic, telehealth advocates are lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve proposed...