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Banner Health Eyes Connected Health Strategy With Digital Health Formulary

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As providers become more comfortable with prescribing connected health services, healthcare organizations are creating their own formularies and giving their doctors a menu of preferred mHealth apps,...

Study: mHealth Chatbots Fail to Meet Demands in Dementia Care

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mHealth apps that function as chatbots may have great potential in engaging with patients living with dementia, but they aren’t there yet, according to a new study. Researchers from the...

New mHealth Group Targets Data Security, Tackling the Digital Divide

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The Digital Medicine Society has launched a new collaborative aimed at developing best practices for measuring health through mHealth platforms. The Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community...

3 Health Systems Join Project to Create Continuous mHealth COVID-19 Monitor

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Three health systems are joining a federally-funded project aimed at developing an mHealth platform that can continuously track COVID-19 patients at home and notify care providers the moment their...

Digital Duds: The mHealth Wearable Market Looks to Sensor-Embedded Clothing

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The mHealth wearables industry has long been focused on activity bands and watches, even jewelry and smartglasses. Often overlooked is the concept of sensor-embedded clothing, but that form factor is...

$2M Army Project Aims to Create an mHealth Wearable to Diagnose Concussions

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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...

Virtual Care Tool Provides Mental Health Support for Youths

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Sutter Health has launched a virtual care tool to help adolescents and young adults who experience mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression.   The California health...

New Study Shows mHealth Games Help Children With Autism - And Their Parents

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A recent pilot program has found that an mHealth game platform tailored for children with Autism not only improves behavioral health outcomes – it also reduces stress in parents. The...

CTA, ACC Partner on mHealth, Telehealth Standards in Cardiovascular Care

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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...

AHIMA Launches mHealth Resource, Assessment Tool for Vendors

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The American Health Information Management Association is jumping on the mHealth bandwagon with a resource site and assessment standards for digital health companies. Working with Moxe, a clinical...

UMass Memorial, Boston University Test Value of Music in mHealth Treatments

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An mHealth platform that incorporates music into treatment is being tested with patients who are looking to restore function affected by a stroke. UMass Memorial Healthcare announced today that it is...

UMass Research Focuses on Helping Seniors Play mHealth Games

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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...

HHS, FDA Backtrack From Plan to Deregulate mHealth Devices, Apps

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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...

Telehealth Puts Truckers on the Path to Better Access, Health Outcomes

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A Texas trucking company is using an mHealth app and telehealth platform to significantly improve healthcare access and outcomes for its employees. L&F Distributors, based in McAllen, found that...

Canadian mHealth App Takes Aim at Preventing Deadly Drug Overdoses

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Healthcare providers in Canada are testing out a unique mHealth app designed to reduce overdose deaths among active drug users. NorWest Community Health Centres in northwestern Ontario will be the...

Mayo Clinic Launches New Platform for Analyzing Data From mHealth Devices

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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...

Supreme Court Ruling May Help Providers With mHealth Messaging Strategies

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A recent Supreme Court ruling gives healthcare providers a little more freedom to send automated text messages to patients. The court earlier this month sided with Facebook in a case involving the...

UW Researchers Develop an mHealth Tool that Tracks Vital Signs With a Camera

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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...

Health Systems to Use mHealth to Help COVID-19 Patients With ‘Brain Fog’

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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...

mHealth Helps Compass Medical Get a Complete View of Patient Care

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A Massachusetts-based health system that saw a more than 50 percent decrease in office visits during the height of the coronavirus pandemic is using mHealth to make sure patients are still getting the...

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