mHealth Applications

Draft Guidelines Introduced to Protect Consumer Data on mHealth Platforms

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Can Telehealth Help Medical Practices Ditch the Waiting Room?

by Eric Wicklund

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...

CTA, mHealth Companies Come Together to Promote Digital Therapeutics

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Fitbit Study Uses mHealth Wearables to Detect COVID-19 Symptoms

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Researchers Use mHealth to Track, Assess Parkinson’s Movements

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Seattle Children’s Scales Out its PRISM Connected Health Platform

by Eric Wicklund

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, Apple to Use mHealth, Telehealth Tools to Tackle Depression

by Eric Wicklund

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,...

Expanding the mHealth Platform to Address More Than Just Healthcare

by Eric Wicklund

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 Facilities, an mHealth Platform is a Good First Step to Telehealth

by Eric Wicklund

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 Explore the Telehealth Value of a Tattoo

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Chicago Health System Uses mHealth to Monitor Staff, Patients for COVID-19

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Sony Survey Shows Support for Doctors Prescribing mHealth Devices

by Eric Wicklund

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...

VA Sees a Surge in Veterans Using Telehealth to Access Healthcare

by Eric Wicklund

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...

mHealth Platforms for Chronic Care Get the Green Light From the FDA

by Eric Wicklund

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...

mHealth Group Finds Common Ground for Measuring Steps, Now Targets Gait

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Purdue Project Uses an mHealth App to Measure Blood Hemoglobin

by Eric Wicklund

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 Uses mHealth to Improve Care Management for Medicaid Members

by Eric Wicklund

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 Create mHealth Patch to Monitor COVID-19 Patients at Home

by Eric Wicklund

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,...

mHealth Study to Test Cardiac Effects of Potential COVID-19 Treatment

by Eric Wicklund

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...

FDA Eases Guidelines for New mHealth, Telemental Health Treatments

by Eric Wicklund

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...

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