A Texas trucking company is using an mHealth app and telehealth platform to significantly improve healthcare access and outcomes for its employees.
L&F Distributors, based in McAllen, found that...
Remote patient programs don’t just automatically work out. They have to be carefully planned and developed in order to gain traction and produce results. Most importantly, they have to target the...
A newly developed mHealth app for chronic kidney disease (CKD) care improved patient engagement and medication adherence based on a new study published in CJASN.
The interactive smartphone app,...
The Community Care Network of Kansas is distributing more than 44,000 connected health devices to 18 community health centers around the state to help expand a telehealth program serving thousands of...
Humana is launching a home healthcare service that includes remote patient monitoring.
The Kentucky-based insurer is partnering with DispatchHealth to launch the program in Denver and Tacoma, WA, for...
A telehealth platform launched last July at West Tennessee Healthcare to monitor COVID-19 patients has proven so good at boosting outcomes and reducing hospitalizations that officials are now planning...
While connected health apps and devices are commonly used for chronic care management, condition-specific mHealth strategies are most effective, based on results from a new Health Union...
Apple is partnering with biotech company Biogen on a new research study that will test the value of mHealth wearables in detecting early signs of cognitive impairment.
The multi-year study, to be...
Massachusetts lawmakers are forging ahead on a telehealth bill that would mandate payment parity for primary care and chronic care management for the next two years and make payment parity permanent...
Many remote patient monitoring programs aim to prevent health emergencies for patients with chronic conditions, but these programs tend to still be in the early stages of development, according to the...
Health systems looking for an alternative to opioids are testing out mHealth and telehealth tools to help patients living with acute and chronic pain.
The Geisinger Health System, for example, is...
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...
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...
A telehealth platform that enables providers to remotely monitor diabetic foot ulcers of patients at home helped eliminate major amputations and halve hospital admissions, according to a recent study...
Researchers at Yale University are launching a connected health study that will analyze three different telehealth and mHealth platforms for treating patients living with heart failure.
The Yale...
Patients dealing with chronic pain have enough discomfort in their lives without the regular trips to the clinic or doctor’s office. A telehealth platform could make life a lot easier for...
While telehealth use has skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic, not everyone has made the jump to virtual care – and that could be putting some people in danger.
A recent study out of...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital is launching an mHealth program to track medication adherence for patients who have been prescribed opioids.
The Boston-based hospital’s Center for Pain...
New Jersey lawmakers have passed legislation allowing care providers to use telehealth to prescribe medical marijuana.
S619, approved last week by the full Assembly, allows providers to prescribe...
Radiologists and psychiatrists are most interested in telehealth jobs, according to a new report from Doximity, while anesthesiologists and surgeons are showing the least interest.
The 2020 State of...
