Health systems looking for an alternative to opioids are testing out mHealth and telehealth tools to help patients living with acute and chronic pain.
The Geisinger Health System, for example, is...
The US Food and Drug Administration has OK’d an innovative mHealth tool that can detect and help treat traumatic nightmares.
Called Nightware, the product consists of an mHealth app and...
The American Medical Association Foundation is donating $100,000 to a Chicago organization that uses telehealth to help underserved residents monitor hypertension.
The donation to West Side United is...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an mHealth tool that can detect evidence of COVID-19 in one’s cough.
In a study recently published in the IEEE Journal of...
A bill introduced last week in the Senate aims to establish Medicare and Medicaid coverage for telehealth programs that monitor the health of expectant mothers.
The Connected Maternal Online Mothering...
New York’s Northwell Health system will be giving several thousand Fitbits to employees as part of a telehealth study aimed at proving the value of mHealth wearables in detecting COVID-19.
The...
A Delaware health system has customized an Amazon Alexa mHealth app to give patients personalized care management information at home.
Wilmington-based ChristianaCare announced this week that the Home...
Researchers at Yale University are launching a connected health study that will analyze three different telehealth and mHealth platforms for treating patients living with heart failure.
The Yale...
With interest high in connected health these days, health systems are scrambling to partner with vendors to test out new technologies for remote patient management and care.
In North Carolina, Wake...
A good mHealth platform can influence underserved communities to manage their health and participate in clinical studies, according to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine.
As...
The US Food and Drug Administration has unveiled the Digital Health Center of Excellence, aimed at supporting mHealth and telehealth tools.
“Establishing the Digital Health Center of Excellence...
The Department of Defense is working with Philips to create a telehealth platform that would remotely monitor service members for infectious diseases, including the coronavirus.
Officials say the...
The University of California at San Francisco and eight digital health companies are receiving almost $23 million in federal funding to develop telehealth and mHealth platforms that address the...
Two tech giants are joining forces to equip federally qualified health centers with telehealth tools to help them reach underserved populations.
Centene and Samsung have announced a partnership to...
A group of Senators is calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand telehealth coverage for veterans’ families during the coronavirus pandemic to include telephone calls and text...
Engineers at Purdue University have developed an mHealth wearable that uses ozone to improve wound care at home.
The connected health platform consists of a disposable, gas-permeable patch that covers...
A new study out of Vanderbilt University finds that mHealth messages can not only help care providers maintain engagement with chronic care patients, but maintain a high level of engagement over a...
Federal officials are proposing to expand Medicare coverage for new telemedicine and mHealth technologies classified as “breakthrough medical devices.”
The Centers for Medicare &...
A Texas hospital is launching a telehealth program that will use mHealth wearables to improve care management for patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
The Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute...
Two digital health organizations have joined forces to develop guidelines to protect health information gathered by consumer-facing mHealth devices.
The Draft Consumer Privacy Framework for Health...