mHealth Applications

Personalized mHealth Tools Help Providers Improve Care Management

by Eric Wicklund

Health systems are using mHealth technology to personalize their remote patient monitoring programs, giving doctors and nurses better insight into care management needs for patients at home. El Camino...

Study Sees Success in Using mHealth to Help People With Eating Disorders

by Eric Wicklund

People living with eating disorders can use an mHealth platform to curb their impulses and improve long-term care management, according to research done at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...

UCSF Business Accelerator Studying Digital Therapeutics, Virtual Reality

by Eric Wicklund

A business accelerator launched out of the University of California at San Francisco is studying how digital therapeutic platforms, including virtual and augmented reality, can be used to improve...

Under Armour Quietly Shelves its Consumer mHealth Wearables Platform

by Eric Wicklund

One of the early participants in the mHealth wearables movement is quietly pulling out. Under Armour, which had competed alongside the likes of Apple, Fitbit, Garmin and Withings with a connected...

mHealth App Study Notes Lack of Resources, Care Provider Support

by Eric Wicklund

Research out of Singapore suggests that many consumer-facing mHealth apps won’t help people living with Type 2 diabetes manage their health, and that care providers should be included in the...

NIH-Funded Project Combines Physical Therapists, Telehealth for In-Home Care

by Eric Wicklund

Researchers at Boston University are using a $3.2 million federal grant to study how an mHealth app can help physical therapists improve care management for people living with Parkinson’s...

New mHealth Wearable Tested to Detect Graft-Versus-Host-Disease

by Eric Wicklund

Researchers at the University of Michigan are integrating mHealth sensors with AI tools to develop a wearable monitor that detects graft-versus-host disease. In a proof-of-concept study recently...

Lowell General Hospital Turns Amazon’s Alexa Into an mHealth Coach

by Eric Wicklund

Lowell General Hospital is turning Amazon’s Alexa into an mHealth assistant for patients headed home after undergoing knee replacement surgery. The Massachusetts-based hospital is in the midst...

Michigan Cancer Centers to Use mHealth in Value-Based Care Project

by Eric Wicklund

Nineteen cancer care centers in Michigan will soon be using an mHealth app to capture patient-reported outcomes in an effort to develop a new Medicare reimbursement model for oncology care. The...

Maryland Pharmacy School Embraces mHealth for Medication Adherence

by Eric Wicklund

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy will be using an mHealth platform to help care providers and their patients improve medication adherence. The Baltimore-based school is partnering with...

Ridesharing Services Help mHealth Programs Improve Care Coordination

by Eric Wicklund

Healthcare providers are finding that ridesharing services can prevent missed appointments and boost patient morale and realizing additional benefits beyond access to care and patient satisfaction. As part of their mobile health programs,...

mHealth Researchers Look to Make the Selfie a Health Resource

by Eric Wicklund

mHealth researchers are working on a digital health tool that will allow care providers to determine a patient’s blood pressure through a selfie. While still very early in development, the...

Nemours Uses an mHealth Chatbot to Help Kids Manage Their Weight

by Eric Wicklund

Researchers with the Nemours Children’s Health System say an on-demand mHealth platform that includes an AI-enabled chatbot can help adolescents stay on a weight management program and reduce...

Anthem Creates a New mHealth Resource on Members’ Mobile Devices

by Eric Wicklund

The nation’s second largest payer is giving its member access to mHealth services from their mobile devices. Anthem, which manages Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in more than a dozen states, is...

Telemedicine Robots: Out of Science Fiction and Into the Mainstream

by Eric Wicklund

Long a staple of science fiction, robots are now proving their value as a telemedicine resource. Originally designed to ferry supplies around the hospital or give surgeons a steadier hand for delicate medical procedures, robots are now...

Top 10 Healthcare Mobile Apps Among Hospital, Health Systems

by Thomas Beaton

Providers are adopting the use of mHealth in the form of mobile apps in their pursuit of easing clinical communication between providers and patients as well as improve the management of hospital...

The History of Mobile Health: From Cell Phones to Wearables

by Vera Gruessner

The mobile health industry is defined as the generation, accumulation, and exchange of medical information through mobile and wireless tools. Today there are a wide variety of different mobile health...

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