Health systems are using mHealth technology to personalize their remote patient monitoring programs, giving doctors and nurses better insight into care management needs for patients at home.
El Camino...
People living with eating disorders can use an mHealth platform to curb their impulses and improve long-term care management, according to research done at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
An innovative project in Ohio is using barbershops, hair salons and telehealth to screen people for hypertension.
Three Cleveland-area barbershops in urban neighborhoods are currently working with the...
One of the nation’s largest health systems is expanding its direct-to-consumer telehealth service, offering on-demand, video-based care to residents in five Western states.
Providence St. Joseph...
A Colorado-based provider of hospice and palliative care services is launching a telehealth platform to improve care management for patients and their caregivers.
TRU Community Care, which launched as...
Two rural hospitals using an asynchronous telehealth platform for eConsults with infectious disease experts saw a sharp reduction in risk of death within 30 days, as well as a decreased risk of...
Payers are discovering that an mHealth program that focuses on just the Fitbit or Apple Watch won’t ensure widespread engagement or positive outcomes. They’re instead adopting...
A San Diego-based children’s hospital is exploring a novel mHealth platform to speed up testing services and improve clinical care for seriously ill children.
The Rady Children’s Institute...
Congress is calling out the US Drug Enforcement Agency for failing to launch a promised – and mandated - program that would allow healthcare providers to use telehealth to prescribe controlled...
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...
Research out of Singapore suggests that many consumer-facing mHealth apps won’t help people living with Type 2 diabetes manage their health, and that care providers should be included in the...
Researchers at Boston University are using a $3.2 million federal grant to study how an mHealth app can help physical therapists improve care management for people living with Parkinson’s...
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...
Some 550,000 South Carolina state employees and their dependents now have access to free telehealth services under a deal forged with the Medical University of South Carolina.
State officials...
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...
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...
Telemedicine technology may have saved the life of an astronaut on the International Space Station.
The astronaut – whose identity is not being disclosed – developed a deep vein thrombosis...
Fitbit is partnering with its first Medicaid provider in an effort to improve mHealth adoption in a population sorely in need of connected health resources.
Beginning with the new year, some 4,000...
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...
