Mobile Healthcare and Telehealth News

AMA Foundation Supports Telehealth Initiative in Chicago’s West Side

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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...

Boston, NY Hospitals Collaborate on Telehealth Platform for COVID-19 Rehab

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A telehealth program created at Harvard Medical School has shown value in helping COVID-19 patients rehabilitate at home. The platform, developed through a partnership with Spaulding Rehabilitation...

Brigham and Women’s Uses Telehealth to ID, Treat Provider Stress

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital is using a telehealth platform in a trial program aimed at identifying and treating stress and burnout in healthcare professionals. The Boston-hospital hospital...

FCC Opens Application Window for Connected Care Pilot Program

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The Federal Communications Commission is set to launch its Connected Care Pilot Program, a three-year, $100 million project aimed at expanding telehealth access for low-income Americans, veterans and...

UPMC to Expand Telehealth Network in Italy to Battle COVID-19 Surge

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UPMC has been awarded almost $2 million to launch a telemedicine platform in Italy, which was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year and is now facing another wave. The United States...

Chicago Health System Expands Pediatric Telemedicine Platform

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A Chicago health system is expanding its telemedicine platform to give patients and care providers at two outlying hospitals on-demand access to emergency pediatric services. Pediatricians at...

Year-Long Study Validates Telehealth Use in Diabetes Prevention Efforts

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A year-long study conducted by the University of Nebraska and Wake Forest University has found that a telehealth platform can help reduce the risk of diabetes in people with a high likelihood of...

New Telehealth Accreditation Program Focuses on Home Health Care

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Another accreditation service for healthcare providers has developed standards for telehealth, with a focus on the home healthcare market. The Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) has...

MIT Researchers Use mHealth Tools to Identify COVID-19 in a Cough

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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...

Senators Seek CMS Support for Telehealth Services for Expectant Moms

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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...

Ontario Invests in Telehealth to Give Seniors Access to Care at Home

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Ontario’s government is investing roughly $5 million in a telehealth program aimed at bringing healthcare into the home for seniors on waiting lists for long-term care. The Community...

NH Hospital Uses Telehealth to Support Difficult Deliveries

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A telemedicine network launched by Massachusetts General Hospital to provide on-demand neonatal support has expanded into New Hampshire. Dover-based Wentworth-Douglass Hospital is now connected with...

Arkansas Gets $1 Million Grant to Expand Telehealth Training

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Healthcare providers in the Arkansas Delta will soon have access to telehealth training services. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a grant of almost $1 million from...

Value-Based Care Requires a Balance of Telehealth, In-Person Visits

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Health systems looking for the right balance between telehealth and in-person care shouldn’t think of one service as a replacement for the other. Rather, they should be...

Fitbit Launches COVID-19 mHealth Study With US Army, Northwell Health

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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...

Telehealth Faces New Challenges: Surfing, Snacking and Social Hour

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DrFirst has uncovered a new challenge to the effectiveness of telehealth visits during the coronavirus pandemic: Multitasking. In a recent survey of more than 1,000 consumers, the Maryland-based...

Telehealth Pilot to Combine Substance Abuse, Behavioral Health Care

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A new project in Indiana aims to analyze the value of telehealth in treating people who are struggling with both substance abuse and mental health concerns. The Indiana University School of Medicine...

New mHealth App Identifies Stroke Signs Through Speech, Facial Movements

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An mHealth app developed by researchers at Penn State and Houston Methodist Hospital reportedly can diagnose a stroke from a user’s speech and facial movements. James Wang, a professor of...

Report Notes CMS Program’s Success With Telehealth for Senior Care

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A CMS program that provides long-term care for seniors in need of support services used telehealth to keep those connections going during the coronavirus pandemic. The success was charted in a recent...

Lawmakers Eye Medicare Coverage for Telehealth in Home Health Care

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A new bill before Congress aims to improve Medicare coverage for home health services delivered via telehealth during a public health emergency. The Home Health Emergency Access to Telehealth (HEAT)...

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