The Federal Communications Commission is providing $47.89 million in new funding to 100 healthcare organizations with the aim of boosting telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency...
Amazon is ramping up its connected health platform with new services designed to expand Alexa’s capabilities in healthcare organizations and senior living facilities.
Offered through the Alexa...
The Federal Communications Commission has announced a third group of healthcare organizations to receive funding through the COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
Some 71 projects have qualified for roughly...
The Consumer Technology Association has created standards for the use of digital therapeutics in an effort to define and establish value for the mHealth platform.
“The biggest challenge in the...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) is collaborating with the US Food and Drug Administration and some heavy hitters in the technology market to develop best practices for integrating mHealth sensors...
Federal officials are ditching a plan to speed up Medicare coverage for innovative mHealth technology, saying the Trump-era plan would have put patients at risk.
The Centers for Medicare &...
The University of California at San Diego Health System is joining the growing ranks of health systems seeking to develop and in many cases commercialize innovative telehealth and mHealth devices and...
One of the early front-runners in proving the value of telehealth is through telestroke services, where the technology has literally saved lives.
Healthcare providers have used telemedicine to treat...
A pair of Senators has re-introduced proposed legislation aimed at give seniors better access to mHealth and telehealth tools for diabetes care management.
The Improving Medicare Beneficiary Access to...
A bill introduced this past March in the Senate could help community health centers improve access to care for underserved populations through mobile health clinics, some with telehealth...
The US Army is investing $2 million in a project to develop an mHealth wearable that can identify concussions.
The US Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) is issuing the grant to...
The American College of Cardiology is partnering with the Consumer Technology Association to help providers get a handle on the fast-growing field of mHealth and telehealth devices for cardiovascular...
A University of Massachusetts researcher is studying whether mHealth games can help seniors living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Sunghoon Ivan Lee, an assistant professor in the College of...
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...
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...
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...
The key to telehealth access for underserved populations may be the audio-only phone. And that could be a problem once the coronavirus pandemic is over.
According to a RAND study of telehealth traffic...
