A Chicago health system is launching a telehealth service that will use mHealth wearables to monitor front-line employees and high-risk patients for early indications of COVID-19.
The University of...
As the healthcare industry looks to mHealth to improve both the doctor and patient experience, chatbots just might be the tool that meets everyone’s needs.
Also known as conversational agents,...
People living with a chronic condition want telehealth and mHealth tools to help manage their health at home, as long as those tools are coming from their doctor.
That conclusion, from a survey...
Federal regulators have signaled their support for a pair of mHealth platforms that use digital therapeutic tools to improve chronic care management.
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted...
An mHealth group has unveiled a step-count algorithm designed to make it easier for healthcare providers and researchers to use telehealth platforms that incorporate wearables.
This is the first...
An mHealth data company is working to develop software that would enable providers to identify people with COVID-19 symptoms through remote patient monitoring platforms.
California-based Evidation...
In what may have been the first procedure of its kind, a California physician recently used a telehealth platform to debride a patient’s wound with maggots, thereby saving the patient’s...
Five large health systems are among the 53 providers included in the Federal Communications Commission’s eight round of COVID-19 Telehealth Program grants.
Drawing from a $200 billion fund...
A team of stroke experts has published new guidelines calling for the increased use of telemedicine during triage and transport to improve patient care and outcomes.
Writing in the American Heart...
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...
Prompted by concerns from two senators, the US military’s health care program is eliminating co-payments for telehealth services and providing coverage for audio-only phone services.
The...
Thirty-three more healthcare providers have qualified for funding under the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
The program, which aims to help providers launch or...
Tennessee’s Medicaid program will be using an mHealth sensor to measure medication adherence among members undergoing Hepatitis C treatment.
TennCare is partnering with Proteus Digital Health on...
Researchers in Chicago are working on an mHealth wearable that will help providers monitor COVID-19 patients at home.
The patch, developed by Northwestern University and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab,...
Oklahoma has launched a telemedicine program to help rural providers get a better understanding of how to treat patients during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Prompted by Governor Kevin Stitt’s March...
Stanford Medicine will soon be launching a new program that aism to determine whether mHealth wearables can be used to manage cardiovascular health in underserved populations.
Armed with a $2.5...
A Delaware health system is using federal funding to expand telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs during the Coronavirus pandemic.
ChristianaCare was one of the first healthcare providers...
With dentists struggling to stay afloat during the Coronavirus pandemic, the American Dental Association is calling on the federal government to support practices using telehealth.
In an April 27...
With the Coronavirus pandemic severely curtailing in-person care, a Manhattan-based mental health clinic is getting the most out of its virtual care platform. Now they’re complementing their...
New York state officials are partnering with a home healthcare services provider to extend telehealth care to public housing residents facing access issues during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Governor...
