The US Food and Drug Administration has OK’d an innovative mHealth tool that can detect and help treat traumatic nightmares.
Called Nightware, the product consists of an mHealth app and...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an mHealth tool that can detect evidence of COVID-19 in one’s cough.
In a study recently published in the IEEE Journal of...
A new coalition aims to shine the spotlight on consumer-facing mHealth and telehealth tools to mitigate health disparities.
Shepherded by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Connected Health...
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...
A good mHealth platform can influence underserved communities to manage their health and participate in clinical studies, according to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine.
As...
The University of California at San Francisco and eight digital health companies are receiving almost $23 million in federal funding to develop telehealth and mHealth platforms that address the...
Two tech giants are joining forces to equip federally qualified health centers with telehealth tools to help them reach underserved populations.
Centene and Samsung have announced a partnership to...
Two digital health organizations have joined forces to develop guidelines to protect health information gathered by consumer-facing mHealth devices.
The Draft Consumer Privacy Framework for Health...
A national non-profit launched by a quartet of high school and college students aims to increase telehealth access by giving donated mHealth devices to those who need them the most.
To date,...
Researchers at Purdue University are developing an mHealth app that can assess a patient’s blood hemoglobin levels through an image of the eyelid.
As explained in a recent post in The Optical...
Federal officials are once again relaxing the rules for telehealth use during the Coronavirus pandemic, allowing physical therapists and other providers to be reimbursed through Medicare and expanding...
With COVID-19 infection rates still rising in underserved populations, state officials are trying to make it easier to use telehealth to access healthcare services.
In Connecticut, Governor Ned Lamont...
Two mHealth research projects aimed at examining the value of wearables in tracking and treating people with infectious diseases like the Coronavirus are pooling their resources.
The Scripps Research...
A group of lawmakers is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand mHealth access to mental health services by allowing people to connect by phone.
In a letter to Health and...
With isolation and separation at the top of the to-do list, federal regulators are looking to make it easier for care providers to use telehealth and mHealth to treat patients. That includes removing...
A smartphone app coupled with artificial intelligence and machine intelligence will increase access to at-home COVID-19 risk assessments, which will help provide health officials with real-time...
After a 180-day hospital stay, patients using smartphones transmitted data for 32 percent longer than patients using wearables, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of...
