Wearable Devices

mHealth Wearable Boosts Remote Patient Monitoring, Connected Health

by Hannah Nelson

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) have developed a mHealth wearable that uses a patch to monitor cardiovascular signs and multiple biomarkers simultaneously,...

NASA’s New mHealth Program Tracks Employee Health Through Wearables

by Eric Wicklund

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...

mHealth Wearables, Connected Health Detect COVID-19 Early

by Hannah Nelson

Wearable devices can detect COVID-19 cases earlier than traditional diagnostic methods and can provide connected health solutions for providers to manage the disease, according to a Mount Sinai...

Global Study Using RPM, mHealth to Treat COVID-19 Patients at Home

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Mount Sinai Extends Cancer Care to the Home With New Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

The Mount Sinai Health System is launching a telehealth program aimed at improving care management for cancer patients at home. The New York health system will be sending high-risk oncology patients...

Apple, Biogen to Use mHealth Wearables to Identify Cognitive Impairment

by Eric Wicklund

Apple is partnering with biotech company Biogen on a new research study that will test the value of mHealth wearables in detecting early signs of cognitive impairment. The multi-year study, to be...

DoD Funds Study For Early COVID-19 Symptom Detection Wearable

by Hannah Nelson

Global health technology leader Royal Philips and continuous health monitoring company BioIntelliSense will receive nearly $2.8 million from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to validate...

NY Hospital Launching Remote Patient Monitoring Program Through Apple Watch

by Eric Wicklund

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...

mHealth Wearable Devices Effective in Post-Cardiac Surgery Care

by Hannah Nelson

Wearable devices have shown to be extremely effective in monitoring high risk patients post heart surgery in a new study, pointing to the benefits of mHealth and remote patient monitoring. Atrial...

FDA OKs mHealth App, Platform for Detecting Traumatic Nightmares

by Eric Wicklund

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...

MIT Researchers Use mHealth Tools to Identify COVID-19 in a Cough

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Fitbit Launches COVID-19 mHealth Study With US Army, Northwell Health

by Eric Wicklund

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...

New Coalition Plans to Apply mHealth to Tackling Health Disparities

by Eric Wicklund

A new coalition aims to shine the spotlight on consumer-facing mHealth and telehealth tools to mitigate health disparities. Shepherded by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Connected Health...

FDA Touts mHealth Expertise With Digital Health Center of Excellence

by Eric Wicklund

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...

Philips, Defense Department Expand mHealth Project for Infection Tracking

by Eric Wicklund

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...

NIH Targets COVID-19 mHealth, Telehealth Projects With New Awards

by Eric Wicklund

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...

FDA Clears ECG App for FitBit’s Wearable Technology

by Samantha McGrail

Fitbit’s new electrocardiogram (ECG) app for assessing heart rhythm for atrial fibrillation (AFib) through the company’s latest wearable technology has been cleared for used in the US and...

CMS Eyes Expanded Coverage for Innovative Telemedicine Devices

by Eric Wicklund

Federal officials are proposing to expand Medicare coverage for new telemedicine and mHealth technologies classified as “breakthrough medical devices.” The Centers for Medicare &...

Texas Hospital Using mHealth Wearables to Monitor Cardiac Patients at Home

by Eric Wicklund

A Texas hospital is launching a telehealth program that will use mHealth wearables to improve care management for patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. The Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute...

Draft Guidelines Introduced to Protect Consumer Data on mHealth Platforms

by Eric Wicklund

Two digital health organizations have joined forces to develop guidelines to protect health information gathered by consumer-facing mHealth devices. The Draft Consumer Privacy Framework for Health...

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