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mHealth Deals Integrate Chronic Care, Mental Health Platforms

January 30, 2019 - Livongo Health’s pending acquisition of an mHealth platform for mental health offers new proof that connected health platforms won’t work unless they integrate care management for a broad array of chronic health concerns. Livongo, launched five years ago as a digital health platform for diabetes care by former Allscripts executive Glen Tullman, announced plans this week to...

Telemedicine Proves its Value in Improving Dermatology Consults

January 30, 2019 by Eric Wicklund

A network of seven community health centers in Massachusetts has cut specialist referrals in half by using a telemedicine platform, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for both the providers and the patients. The community...

Telehealth Helps CMS Bundled Payment Program Show Some Savings

January 07, 2019 by Eric Wicklund

Mandatory bundled payment programs for joint replacement surgery can save a modest amount of money through the use of telehealth services for rehab, according to a recent analysis. As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, an...

UW-Madison Project Uses mHealth to Study Nurse Stress, Fatigue

December 26, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

A new mHealth project in Wisconsin aims to use Fitbits to monitor – and ultimately improve – nurses’ health. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing Professor Linsey Steege will use the popular digital health...

How One SNF Used Telemedicine to Qualify for a Medicare Bonus

December 13, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

A telemedicine platform that provides real-time virtual care has helped a Long Island skilled nursing facility reduce hospital transfers, improve patient care and staff morale – and earn more than $150,000 in Medicare bonuses for the...

VA Announces Telehealth Partnerships With Walmart, Philips, T-Mobile

December 07, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its “Anywhere to Anywhere VA Health Care” program with new telehealth and telemedicine partnerships. At this week’s “Anywhere to Anywhere Together” summit in...

Telehealth Research Uncovers Challenges in Launching an RPM Program

December 05, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

Remote patient monitoring programs for cardiac care patients have helped reduce mortality over six months – but the telemedicine platform has proven less effective in the long run, and has even led to an increase in hospital...

Duke to Use mHealth Wearables to Help Freshmen Improve Health

November 20, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

Duke University will be arming incoming freshmen with smartwatches next year in an mHealth program that aims to improve student health outcomes. The WearDuke program, developed by Geoff Ginsburg, a professor of medicine, and Susanne Haga,...

Congress Facing Pressure to Pass Telehealth Bill for Senior Care

November 19, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

Connected care advocates are lobbying Congress to pass the Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2018, which aims to reduce rehospitalizations at qualified skilled nursing facilities by giving them more...

Hospital-Hotel Partnerships Push DTC Telehealth to a New Population

October 26, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

A South Florida health system is pushing its two-year-old direct-to-consumer telehealth program out to the region’s tourist population. The six-hospital, Hollywood-based Memorial Healthcare System recently signed partnerships with...

John Hancock Makes mHealth a Part of All Insurance Policies

September 20, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

One of America’s oldest insurers is switching from traditional policies to an interactive model that tracks member health through mHealth devices, including wearables. John Hancock announced this week that its interactive life...

Are Healthcare Providers Getting Comfortable With Telehealth?

September 17, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

While research has long suggested that telehealth can be more cost-effective than the in-person visit, new studies are suggesting that doctors who use connected care technology are also becoming better care providers. A year-long...

The MAVEN Project Gives Busy Health Clinics a Telehealth Resource

September 13, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

A network of volunteer physicians is using telehealth to provide consults and mentorship to where it’s needed the most – health clinics serving the underserved. The volunteers offer their services for free under the MAVEN...

Consumers Are Avoiding the ER - But Not in Favor of Telehealth

September 04, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

Hospitals and health systems are launching direct-to-consumer telehealth platforms to push people with non-acute health concerns away from the emergency department and toward virtual visits. But while new research suggests ED traffic is...

When Its Only Doctor Retired, A Rural Town Turned to Telehealth

August 20, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

A Georgia university with a history of expanding telehealth resources into rural parts of the state has opened a new telemedicine clinic in a town whose one and only physician recently retired. The Mercer University School of Medicine...

mHealth Can Help Teens, Young Adults Struggling With Depression

July 31, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

Teens and young adults are using mHealth and telehealth to research healthcare and connect with peers online, according to a nationwide survey. It suggests that tomorrow’s consumers are comfortable with connected health services -...

California Medical Board Creates a Mobile App for Doctor Discipline

July 31, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

California residents can now use an mHealth app to find out if their doctors have been disciplined – or if they’ve moved. Touting itself as “the first American board in the nation to utilize such technology to notify...

Walgreens Launches An Online Marketplace for Telehealth, mHealth

July 26, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

Walgreens has launched an mHealth platform designed to give its members online access to healthcare services, including telehealth. The “Find Care Now” digital health service, unveiled this week by the Deerfield, Ill.-based...

Telemedicine Gives Specialists a Chance to Exercise Their Skills

July 19, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

Telemedicine advocates have long argued that virtual care is equal to in-person care. But for some specialists augmenting their “day job” with eConsult services, that telehealth platform enables them to do more than they...

2nd Michigan Hospital Forges Telehealth Partnership With Shriners

June 21, 2018 by Eric Wicklund

A second Michigan hospital is opening a telehealth unit to enable families to access care from Shriners Hospitals for Children. Officials at Grand Rapids-based Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital announced this week that they will...

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