Connected Health

How Can the Internet of Things Integrate With Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring?

by Eric Wicklund

The federal government is seeking comments on issues related to spectrum for the Internet of Things, including broadband connectivity needed for remote patient monitoring and telehealth programs and...

Can Remote Patient Monitoring Improve Post-Surgical Care and Recovery?

by Eric Wicklund

A recent study conducted at several Canadian hospitals finds that remote patient monitoring can be used to help patients recover at home after non-elective surgery. The study, led by researchers at...

JD Power Survey Sees Telehealth Falling Back Into the Same Old Rut

by Eric Wicklund

A new study finds that while telehealth has surged during the pandemic, providers haven’t solved many of the issues that kept adoption low prior to COVID-19. J.D. Power’s 2021 US...

FCC Announces Latest Awards From COVID-19 Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

More than 70 healthcare organizations will received federal funds for new connected health projects through the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program. The FCC this week...

California Extends HIPAA Telehealth Waiver to End of PHE

by Eric Wicklund

California Governor Gavin Newsom has extended an Executive Order enabling physicians to conduct routine and non-emergency telehealth services without risk of being penalized for the inadvertent release...

Thomas Jefferson University Takes on Telehealth, mHealth Barriers

by Eric Wicklund

Thomas Jefferson University has launched the Jefferson Center for Connected Care, a new effort by one of the East Coast’s leading connected health organizations to take on the barriers to...

HRSA Health Centers to Get $1B for Telehealth, Other Upgrades

by Eric Wicklund

The Biden Administration is shelling out almost $1 billion in American Rescue Plan funding to health centers in every state to support a wide range of projects, including telehealth expansion. In all,...

CMS Faces a Call to Improve Telehealth Coverage for Rural Health Providers

by Eric Wicklund

Several organizations are making an extra effort to lobby for expanded telehealth coverage for rural healthcare providers beyond the pandemic. While telehealth advocates have been lobbying the Centers...

Researchers Develop an mHealth Wearable That Can Deliver Vaccines

by Eric Wicklund

Researchers are developing an mHealth wearable that might someday take the sting out of vaccine shots and make them more effective as well. Teams from Stanford University and the University of North...

Biogen Joins UCLA’s mHealth Project to Gather Cognitive Data From Devices

by Eric Wicklund

An mHealth project launched in 2020 to track depression on Apple devices is expanding to measure mental health status, including cognitive decline. The University of California at Los Angeles...

New Healthcare Platform for Black Americans Will Include Telehealth, mHealth

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth and mHealth services will figure prominently in a recently announced project by several large corporations to create a healthcare platform directed at the Black community. Doctor On Demand,...

Addiction Recovery Specialists Find Unexpected Advantages to Using Telehealth

by Eric Wicklund

Healthcare providers who focus on substance abuse and addiction recovery services are learning to use telehealth to improve access to care during a pandemic. Many are finding advantages to virtual care...

OIG Report Assesses Medicaid Telehealth Programs for Behavioral Health

by Eric Wicklund

A federal review has found that no state Medicaid programs are analyzing how telehealth affects the quality of behavioral health services even though many are offering virtual care coverage during the...

Arizona Hospitals Use mHealth to Connect With Patients in the ED

by Eric Wicklund

Four Arizona hospitals and two free-standing emergency health centers have launched an mHealth platform that gives patients and their families real-time updates on their mobile devices about wait times...

Lawmakers Asked to Boost Telehealth Resource Center Budget to $27M

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth advocates are petitioning lawmakers to boost the budget for the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers (TRCs), noting they’ve seen an 800 percent increase in business...

CMS Investing $15M in Medicaid Mobile Health Crisis Intervention

by Eric Wicklund

Federal authorities are awarding $15 million in rescue plan funding to 20 states to help expand mobile health intervention services for Medicaid patients in crisis. The planning grants, administered...

VA Plans $1B Expansion of Remote Patient Monitoring Platform

by Eric Wicklund

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to launch a massive expansion of its remote patient monitoring program to expand care and treatment of veterans in their own homes. The VA has filed a...

Telehealth Groups Pressure CMS to Expand Coverage in 2022 Physician Fee Schedule

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth advocates are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to amend the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule to permanently extend emergency measures on telehealth access and...

NIH to Use mHealth, Telehealth in Long COVID Research

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth and mHealth will play an important role in a massive research project being launched by the National Institutes of Health to analyze the long-term effects of COVID-19. The NIH announced...

FTC Emphasizes Security Standards for mHealth Apps, Devices

by Eric Wicklund

The federal government is strengthening efforts to ensure than mHealth apps and connected devices protect personal health information. The Federal Trade Commission this week issued a policy statement...

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