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...
An innovative project in Ohio is using barbershops, hair salons and telehealth to screen people for hypertension.
Three Cleveland-area barbershops in urban neighborhoods are currently working with the...
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...
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...
Payers are discovering that an mHealth program that focuses on just the Fitbit or Apple Watch won’t ensure widespread engagement or positive outcomes. They’re instead adopting...
A San Diego-based children’s hospital is exploring a novel mHealth platform to speed up testing services and improve clinical care for seriously ill children.
The Rady Children’s Institute...
Researchers have found a way to use mHealth wearables to tackle population health concerns.
Led by digital health expert Eric Topol, MD, researchers at the Scripps Research Translational Institute...
Current and future physicians are eager to use self-reported data from patients with mHealth wearables – in fact, they’re using wearables themselves to track health concerns.
That’s...
Consumer-facing mHealth is a thing now, and the organization overseeing the vast consumer technology landscape wants to make sure people know how to use their wearables.
The Consumer Technology...
A Rhode Island hospital is launching a pilot program to determine whether an mHealth wearable can help users lose weight.
Researchers the The Miriam Hospital, part of the Lifespan Health System, will...
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...
Fitbit is partnering with its first Medicaid provider in an effort to improve mHealth adoption in a population sorely in need of connected health resources.
Beginning with the new year, some 4,000...
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...
The largest-ever study of a consumer-facing mHealth wearable finds that the Apple Watch can be used by clinicians to detect atrial fibrillation.
But the question remains: Will care providers trust...
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...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an mHealth wearable that can detect epileptic seizures and immediately alert care team members.
The Embrace smart device, developed by Cambridge,...
The emergence of asynchronous, or store-and-forward, telemedicine is giving rise to new platforms that stress collaboration and best practices over real-time, video-based treatment.
Telemedicine is generally divided into three modalities:...
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...
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...
For many people, eyeglasses aren’t a luxury – they’re a necessity. Dr. Leslie Saxon is wondering if they might make a good mHealth monitor as well.
Saxon, head of the University of...
