mHealth Strategies

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...

mHealth Wearables Detect Pandemic-Related Stress in Healthcare Workers

by Victoria Bailey

Mount Sinai researchers used wearable devices to monitor physiological effects in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that high resilience and emotional support are linked to a...

AMA Survey Charts Explosive Growth of Telehealth Services in 2020

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth use by physicians jumped from 25 percent in 2018 to almost 80 percent in 2020, while almost 85 percent of psychiatrists connected with the patients via video visit or telephone during the...

Supporters Blame Politics for Failed Alaska Telehealth Legislation

by Eric Wicklund

A proposed bill to expand telehealth services in Alaska to deal with the ongoing pandemic has died, and its supporters are blaming partisan politics. SB 3006, recently introduced by Governor Mike...

CMS Plans to Scrap Innovative mHealth Technology Program

by Eric Wicklund

Federal officials are ditching a plan to speed up Medicare coverage for innovative mHealth technology, saying the Trump-era plan would have put patients at risk. The Centers for Medicare &...

Grant Funds Medical Device Development to Prevent Epileptic Seizures

by Victoria Bailey

A professor at the University of Houston has received a $3.7 million BRAIN initiative grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to further his research and medical device...

Study Touts FQHC Success at Integrating Telehealth, Mental Health Services

by Eric Wicklund

With only about 10 percent of the nation’s federally qualified health centers having psychiatrists or licensed clinical psychologists on staff, a telehealth platform could improve access for...

School Health Centers Get $5M to Expand Telehealth Access to Care

by Eric Wicklund

With schools returning to in-person learning or juggling remote options, the Biden Administration is investing more than $5 million in school-based health centers that often use telehealth to help...

Mount Sinai Launches New mHealth App for Patient Data Access

by Victoria Bailey

Mount Sinai Health System has introduced a new mHealth app to improve patient data access, enhance patient-provider communication, and create a centralized platform for all patient healthcare...

CMS Faces Calls to Improve Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage in 2022 PFS

by Eric Wicklund

With remote patient monitoring projects surging in popularity as a result of the pandemic, telehealth advocates are lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve proposed...

UC San Diego Health Takes Aim at Telehealth, mHealth Innovation

by Eric Wicklund

The University of California at San Diego Health System is joining the growing ranks of health systems seeking to develop and in many cases commercialize innovative telehealth and mHealth devices and...

American Academy of Pediatrics Targets Parity in Telehealth Policy Statement

by Eric Wicklund

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a policy statement on telehealth that calls for, among other things, payment parity and more efforts to address the social determinants of health....

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