The Federal Communications Commission will hold a round-table discussion next month on a new program designed to help underserved households improve broadband access for telehealth and other...
Researchers in Arizona are launching a global study that aims to use mHealth wearables and apps, AI bots and a telehealth platform to monitor and treat COVID-19 patients at home, thereby reducing...
Dozens of health systems across the country are embracing a program that uses telehealth and mHealth to provide care at home for patients who would otherwise be hospitalized.
Centers for Medicare...
A robust in-patient telehealth platform can save a health system millions of dollars, reduce workload stresses for care providers and, most importantly, improve care outcomes.
That’s the...
A New York hospital is developing a telehealth platform that will enable care providers to manage orthopedic patients at home through the Apple Watch.
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HHS), an...
New research from the University of Pennsylvania and Independence Blue Cross finds that a telemedicine platform can reduce the wait for dermatologist consult from six weeks to less than six hours.
The...
Telehealth and mHealth are pushing the healthcare ecosystem further toward value-based care, and a key ingredient in this transition is digital therapeutics.
Digital therapeutics is “something...
The US Food and Drug Administration has OK’d an innovative mHealth tool that can detect and help treat traumatic nightmares.
Called Nightware, the product consists of an mHealth app and...
The Federal Communications Commission is set to launch its Connected Care Pilot Program, a three-year, $100 million project aimed at expanding telehealth access for low-income Americans, veterans and...
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an mHealth tool that can detect evidence of COVID-19 in one’s cough.
In a study recently published in the IEEE Journal of...
New York’s Northwell Health system will be giving several thousand Fitbits to employees as part of a telehealth study aimed at proving the value of mHealth wearables in detecting COVID-19.
The...
An mHealth app developed by researchers at Penn State and Houston Methodist Hospital reportedly can diagnose a stroke from a user’s speech and facial movements.
James Wang, a professor of...
A Delaware health system has customized an Amazon Alexa mHealth app to give patients personalized care management information at home.
Wilmington-based ChristianaCare announced this week that the Home...
A telehealth platform that enables providers to remotely monitor diabetic foot ulcers of patients at home helped eliminate major amputations and halve hospital admissions, according to a recent study...
Researchers at Yale University are launching a connected health study that will analyze three different telehealth and mHealth platforms for treating patients living with heart failure.
The Yale...
Federal authorities have announced millions of dollars in new grants for telehealth programs across the country.
Some $72 million in federal funding is going to 116 projects through the US Department...
With interest high in connected health these days, health systems are scrambling to partner with vendors to test out new technologies for remote patient management and care.
In North Carolina, Wake...
The US Food and Drug Administration has unveiled the Digital Health Center of Excellence, aimed at supporting mHealth and telehealth tools.
“Establishing the Digital Health Center of Excellence...
The Department of Defense is working with Philips to create a telehealth platform that would remotely monitor service members for infectious diseases, including the coronavirus.
Officials say the...
The University of California at San Francisco and eight digital health companies are receiving almost $23 million in federal funding to develop telehealth and mHealth platforms that address the...
