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...
With the COVID-19 crisis putting the kibosh on crowds, hospitals are turning to telehealth and mHealth to take the wait out of healthcare.
The crowded, clamorous, stuffy, sniffly waiting room has long...
Roughly two dozen mHealth and telehealth companies are joining forces with the Consumer Technology Association to develop standards for digital therapeutics.
The CTA’s initiative aims to create...
Early results from a study launched in May by Fitbit indicate mHealth wearables can help providers identify people infected with the coronavirus – often before symptoms are evident.
According to...
mHealth researchers are reporting that wearables combined with an AI platform can help healthcare providers track the severity of Parkinson’s disease.
As reported in a recent issue of Nature, a...
Two years after piloting an mHealth app for children dealing with serious illnesses, Seattle Children’s Hospital is scaling up the platform to a much larger population.
The hospital has unveiled...
UCLA is launching a three-year study, using telehealth and mHealth tools, that aims to give healthcare providers a better handle on how to diagnose and treat depression.
Researchers at the university,...
With the coronavirus pandemic putting the squeeze on underserved populations, health plans are developing mHealth and telehealth tools that go beyond healthcare.
Healthfirst, a provider-owned insurer...
For senior living facilities eyeing telehealth to improve care and staff workloads, an mHealth messaging platform may be the best place to start.
CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior...
mHealth researchers at the University of Missouri are developing temporary tattoos that could someday serve a wide range of uses in telehealth.
Once the domain of sailors, athletes, artists and...
A Chicago health system is launching a telehealth service that will use mHealth wearables to monitor front-line employees and high-risk patients for early indications of COVID-19.
The University of...
People living with a chronic condition want telehealth and mHealth tools to help manage their health at home, as long as those tools are coming from their doctor.
That conclusion, from a survey...
Veterans used telehealth to access care more than 120,000 times a week during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
That’s more than a 1,000...
Federal regulators have signaled their support for a pair of mHealth platforms that use digital therapeutic tools to improve chronic care management.
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted...
An mHealth group has unveiled a step-count algorithm designed to make it easier for healthcare providers and researchers to use telehealth platforms that incorporate wearables.
This is the first...
Researchers at Purdue University are developing an mHealth app that can assess a patient’s blood hemoglobin levels through an image of the eyelid.
As explained in a recent post in The Optical...
Tennessee’s Medicaid program will be using an mHealth sensor to measure medication adherence among members undergoing Hepatitis C treatment.
TennCare is partnering with Proteus Digital Health on...
Researchers in Chicago are working on an mHealth wearable that will help providers monitor COVID-19 patients at home.
The patch, developed by Northwestern University and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab,...
An mHealth study being launched in France will use an mHealth wearable to monitor cardiac activity in COVID-19 patients being treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, a drug therapy eyes as a...
With the Coronavirus pandemic putting a strain on the mental health of both patients and providers, federal officials are easing up on regulations for mHealth and apps and telehealth services to push...