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...
Telehealth programs are so focused on connecting the patient with the provider that they sometimes forget about the other person in the room: the caregiver.
And that’s a problem. Family members and friends who care for loved ones...
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...
With interest high in connected health these days, health systems are scrambling to partner with vendors to test out new technologies for remote patient management and care.
In North Carolina, Wake...
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 US Food and Drug Administration has unveiled the Digital Health Center of Excellence, aimed at supporting mHealth and telehealth tools.
“Establishing the Digital Health Center of Excellence...
The Department of Defense is working with Philips to create a telehealth platform that would remotely monitor service members for infectious diseases, including the coronavirus.
Officials say the...
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...
Engineers at Purdue University have developed an mHealth wearable that uses ozone to improve wound care at home.
The connected health platform consists of a disposable, gas-permeable patch that covers...
A Texas hospital is launching a telehealth program that will use mHealth wearables to improve care management for patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
The Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute...
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...
Roughly two dozen mHealth and telehealth companies are joining forces with the Consumer Technology Association to develop standards for digital therapeutics.
The CTA’s initiative aims to create...
A non-profit that targets veteran homelessness is using telehealth to expand access to mental health and other services.
Soldier On, which was launched in 1994 in Pittsfield, MA and now serves...
Like any profession that deals in life and death, healthcare has a stress and burnout problem - to which telehealth could be the answer.
Physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession, losing 300 to 400 of their...
A remote patient monitoring program for babies who’ve had heart surgery has helped reduce infant mortality by some 40 percent, according to the American Heart Association.
In a scientific...
Nebraska lawmakers have approved legislation requiring payers in the state to cover telehealth services provided by a dermatologist on an asynchronous (store-and-forward) platform.
LB 760, signed into...
Two years after piloting an mHealth app for children dealing with serious illnesses, Seattle Children’s Hospital is scaling up the platform to a much larger population.
The hospital has unveiled...
UCLA is launching a three-year study, using telehealth and mHealth tools, that aims to give healthcare providers a better handle on how to diagnose and treat depression.
Researchers at the university,...
