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mHealth App Study Notes Lack of Resources, Care Provider Support

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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...

NIH-Funded Project Combines Physical Therapists, Telehealth for In-Home Care

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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 Doctors Are More Than Ready to Use mHealth Wearables

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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...

Consumer Tech Association Unveils A Consumer’s Guide to mHealth Wearables

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Consumer-facing mHealth is a thing now, and the organization overseeing the vast consumer technology landscape wants to make sure people know how to use their wearables. The Consumer Technology...

New mHealth Wearable Tested to Detect Graft-Versus-Host-Disease

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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...

Fitbit Deal Gives Georgia’s Medicaid Population Access to mHealth

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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 Turns Amazon’s Alexa Into an mHealth Coach

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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...

Payers Are Using mHealth, Telehealth to Promote Better Health Outcomes

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mHealth and telehealth are enabling payers to give their members and care providers the information they need to make better decisions and provide better care. But it’s not just about giving...

Can Telehealth Improve Access to Eye Care in Underserved Populations?

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Researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham will be using a $3.5 million federal grant to study how telehealth can be used to improve diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases in rural and...

Apple Heart Study Finds Value in Using mHealth Wearables to Detect AFib

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The largest-ever study of a consumer-facing mHealth wearable finds that the Apple Watch can be used by clinicians to detect atrial fibrillation. But the question remains: Will care providers trust...

Michigan Cancer Centers to Use mHealth in Value-Based Care Project

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Nineteen cancer care centers in Michigan will soon be using an mHealth app to capture patient-reported outcomes in an effort to develop a new Medicare reimbursement model for oncology care. The...

Maryland Pharmacy School Embraces mHealth for Medication Adherence

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The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy will be using an mHealth platform to help care providers and their patients improve medication adherence. The Baltimore-based school is partnering with...

mHealth Researchers Look to Make the Selfie a Health Resource

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mHealth researchers are working on a digital health tool that will allow care providers to determine a patient’s blood pressure through a selfie. While still very early in development, the...

Telemedicine Highlighted in Treatments for Insomnia, Sleep Disorders

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Healthcare providers and payers are opening their eyes to telehealth as a means of treating insomnia and other sleep-related issues. Studies discussed at the Associated Professional Sleep...

Nemours Uses an mHealth Chatbot to Help Kids Manage Their Weight

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Researchers with the Nemours Children’s Health System say an on-demand mHealth platform that includes an AI-enabled chatbot can help adolescents stay on a weight management program and reduce...

Anthem Creates a New mHealth Resource on Members’ Mobile Devices

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The nation’s second largest payer is giving its member access to mHealth services from their mobile devices. Anthem, which manages Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in more than a dozen states, is...

Top 10 Healthcare Mobile Apps Among Hospital, Health Systems

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Providers are adopting the use of mHealth in the form of mobile apps in their pursuit of easing clinical communication between providers and patients as well as improve the management of hospital...

USC Takes a Closer Look at mHealth-Enabled Eyeglasses

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For many people, eyeglasses aren’t a luxury – they’re a necessity. Dr. Leslie Saxon is wondering if they might make a good mHealth monitor as well. Saxon, head of the University of...

The History of Mobile Health: From Cell Phones to Wearables

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The mobile health industry is defined as the generation, accumulation, and exchange of medical information through mobile and wireless tools. Today there are a wide variety of different mobile health...

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