Federal officials are quietly withdrawing a Trump administration plan to end regulatory review of 83 types of mHealth devices, saying the original plan was flawed and could have put the lives of...
The Mayo Clinic has launched a new mHealth platform aimed at helping healthcare providers improve their use of connected health devices in remote patient monitoring and other mobile health...
A recent Supreme Court ruling gives healthcare providers a little more freedom to send automated text messages to patients.
The court earlier this month sided with Facebook in a case involving the...
The University of Washington and Microsoft have developed an mHealth platform that can collect vital signs using the camera on a laptop or smartphone.
The technology, which analyzes video of a...
Three health systems will be testing an mHealth platform aimed at helping patients experiencing cognitive dysfunction following COVID-19, a side effect to the coronavirus pandemic that could affect...
The American Medical Association is lobbying for permanent Medicare coverage for audio-only telehealth services.
In a letter to Acting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator...
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic curtailing in-person care, physicians at Stanford Children’s Health are using mHealth devices and telehealth platforms to monitor some of their youngest and...
Stanford Medicine is partnering with Fitbit to study the value on mHealth wearables in identifying and tracking infectious disease like COVID-19 among college athletes.
The connected health study,...
A new bill before Congress aims to ensure Medicare coverage for audio-only telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic for Medicare Advantage and PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the...
Boston Medical Center is launching an mHealth app designed to assist healthcare providers using medication-assisted treatment (MAT) therapy.
The BMC MAT app, developed by Colleen LaBelle MSN, RN-BC,...
Arkansas lawmakers are moving forward with legislation that would allow healthcare providers to use a real-time, audio-only telehealth platform to treat patients.
The path hasn’t been easy. The...
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are creating a drone that can make telehealth house calls.
Still in development, the drone includes an audio-visual telemedicine platform and a waterproof...
The Community Care Network of Kansas is distributing more than 44,000 connected health devices to 18 community health centers around the state to help expand a telehealth program serving thousands of...
An mHealth platform that automates contact tracing is helping Methodist Hospital of Southern California reduce COVID-19 exposure, as well as boosting staff morale and restoring public faith in a...
Much like telestroke vehicles bring emergency treatment to stroke victims in the field, a new vehicle being developed by the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine aims to treat heart attack...
A North Carolina health system is placing telehealth kiosks in high-traffic areas around the community to help residents who can’t access telehealth at home.
UNC Health Southeastern is opening...
Washington state lawmakers are working on legislation that would set specific guidelines for use and coverage of audio-only telehealth platforms, such as the phone.
HB 1196, sponsored by State Rep....
Behavioral interventions using mHealth self-monitoring tools lead to significant weight loss among overweight or obese patients, according to a research review published online in The Obesity...
America has a weight problem, with very serious consequences. And telehealth could be the answer to how people — and their care providers — come to grips with girth.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
NASA is launching an mHealth program to help its employees – including astronauts – identify and treat illnesses like COVID-19 as quickly as possible.
The organization is giving 1,000...
