The Department of Veterans Affairs will be shifting more services to telehealth and mHealth platforms as it ramps up its efforts to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic.
The VA released a 262-page...
Healthcare providers are scrambling to keep up with the demand for telehealth services as the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the nation. Many are seeing unexpected benefits in the shift to...
Scripps researchers are launching a new study to measure the value of mHealth wearables in detecting the emergence of viral outbreaks like the Coronavirus.
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The Health and Human Services Department is releasing $100 million in federal funds to more than 1,000 health centers to help them expand telehealth programs to help deal with the Coronavirus...
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...
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have so far amended existing laws or issued new declarations to expand the use of telehealth and mHealth tool during the Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
As part of the recent declaration of a COVID-19 state of emergency, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is mandating that all payers cover medically necessary telehealth testing and treatment for the...
As Congress votes on a funding package that includes Medicare waivers for some telehealth services and the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) cancels its conference in Florida,...
A new mHealth partnership will give Amazon Alexa users detailed information on the drugs they’re taking, adding a new dimension of care management to digital health assistants.
Amazon announced...
Researchers from three US universities have launched a federally funded project to create a bandage with mHealth sensors that could help serious wounds heal faster and more effectively.
With as much...
A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Department of Agriculture to amend a two-year-old broadband funding program to give rural states more opportunities to improve their telehealth...
Healthcare providers and payers in eight states and the District of Columbia will soon be able to prescribe VR therapy through a telehealth clinic, giving patients an opportunity to use the digital...
A remote patient monitoring program launched two years ago at UPMC is helping care providers identify and treat new mothers dealing with hypertension.
The telehealth program, which sends new moms home...
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...
Telehealth and mHealth are expected to play a major role in a multi-state effort to improve care for expectant mothers dealing with opioid abuse and their children.
The Centers for Medicare &...
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...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has made significant strides in telehealth and mHealth adoption over the past few years, in everything from mHealth apps to virtual visits and telehealth stations in...
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...
