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A NYC Telemental Health Clinic Uses mHealth to Gain New Insights Into Care

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With the Coronavirus pandemic severely curtailing in-person care, a Manhattan-based mental health clinic is getting the most out of its virtual care platform. Now they’re complementing their...

mHealth Study to Test Cardiac Effects of Potential COVID-19 Treatment

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An mHealth study being launched in France will use an mHealth wearable to monitor cardiac activity in COVID-19 patients being treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, a drug therapy eyes as a...

FDA Eases Guidelines for New mHealth, Telemental Health Treatments

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With the Coronavirus pandemic putting a strain on the mental health of both patients and providers, federal officials are easing up on regulations for mHealth and apps and telehealth services to push...

OSF HealthCare Uses Telehealth, RPM to Treat COVID-19 Patients at Home

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OSF HealthCare has launched a state-based telehealth program that uses remote patient monitoring concepts to triage and treat Coronavirus patients in their homes. The Illinois-based, 14-hospital...

Mount Sinai Unveils mHealth Resource for Nurses Treating COVID-19 Patients

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The Mount Sinai Health System has unveiled an mHealth resource to help nurses who are treating COVID-19 patients. The New York-based health system is partnering with Sana Labs and the New York Academy...

SRTI, Stanford Health Launch mHealth Consortium for COVID-19 Research

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Two mHealth research projects aimed at examining the value of wearables in tracking and treating people with infectious diseases like the Coronavirus are pooling their resources. The Scripps Research...

DEA Gives Providers Leeway to Use Telehealth for Substance Abuse Care

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With the Coronavirus pandemic limiting in-person treatment, healthcare providers are using telehealth to ensure patients dealing with substance abuse issues have access to care. (For more coronavirus...

California Relaxes the Rules for mHealth, Telehealth Video Chats

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is relaxing state rules to allow healthcare providers to use telehealth and mHealth tools like Skype and FaceTime without risk of penalty. Mirroring a waiver handed down...

ATA, CTA Unveil Online Database of Telehealth, mHealth Services

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The American Telemedicine Association and Consumer Technology Association have partnered to create an online database of telehealth and mHealth platforms and tools. The Digital Health Care Directory...

mHealth Project to Crowdsource Consumer Data for Coronavirus Research

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mHealth researchers are using smartphones to crowdsource Coronavirus research. The University of California at San Francisco has launched COVID-19 Citizen Science (CCS), a project aimed at gathering...

VA Shifts More Services to Telehealth, mHealth to Combat the Coronavirus

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The Department of Veterans Affairs will be shifting more services to telehealth and mHealth platforms as it ramps up its efforts to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. The VA released a 262-page...

Using Telehealth in a Pandemic: Focus on Flexibility, Scalability

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Healthcare providers are scrambling to keep up with the demand for telehealth services as the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the nation. Many are seeing unexpected benefits in the shift to...

Scripps Turns to mHealth Wearables to Help Plot Coronavirus Growth

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Scripps researchers are launching a new study to measure the value of mHealth wearables in detecting the emergence of viral outbreaks like the Coronavirus. (For more coronavirus updates, visit...

MD City Integrates Telehealth With Smart City Hub to Monitor Coronavirus

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A tiny community of about 5,000 in Maryland is ground zero for an ambitious telehealth project aimed at using smart community concepts to monitor and manage the Coronavirus pandemic. (For more...

OCR Gives Providers More Leeway to Use mHealth, Telehealth Tools

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With isolation and separation at the top of the to-do list, federal regulators are looking to make it easier for care providers to use telehealth and mHealth to treat patients. That includes removing...

AI-Powered Smartphone App Offers Coronavirus Risk Assessment

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A smartphone app coupled with artificial intelligence and machine intelligence will increase access to at-home COVID-19 risk assessments, which will help provide health officials with real-time...

Wearables, Smartphones Equally Enhance Remote Patient Monitoring

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After a 180-day hospital stay, patients using smartphones transmitted data for 32 percent longer than patients using wearables, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of...

New mHealth Wearable Sensor Boosts Flexibility, Durability

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Engineers at the University of Waterloo recently developed a durable, flexible sensor for mHealth wearable devices to monitor everything from vital signs to athletic performance.  Researchers...

Coronavirus Scare Gives Telehealth an Opening to Redefine Healthcare

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As Congress votes on a funding package that includes Medicare waivers for some telehealth services and the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) cancels its conference in Florida,...

DEA Proposes New mHealth Rule for Substance Abuse Treatment

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Federal officials have proposed easing restrictions on the use of mHealth in substance abuse programs – but the changes aren’t what everyone has been expecting. Under a notice of proposed...

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