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Student-Based Non-Profit Secures mHealth Donations for Seniors

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A national non-profit launched by a quartet of high school and college students aims to increase telehealth access by giving donated mHealth devices to those who need them the most. To date,...

New Initiative Aims to Apply Consumer mHealth to Pandemic Planning

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A new task force aims to shine the spotlight on the role that consumer-facing mHealth and telehealth technology can play in tackling pandemics. The Consumer Technology Association today announced the...

NY-NJ Hospitals to Use Smart Clothes in COVID-19 Telehealth Program

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Several hospitals in New Jersey and New York will be using smart clothing in a telehealth program aimed at providing remote care for patients infected with or suspected of having the coronavirus. The...

NC Health System’s New mHealth Platform Uses Drones to Deliver Supplies

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Wake Forest Baptist Health has expanded its mHealth platform with new drone delivery services – including PPE shipments for healthcare providers working with COVID-19 patients. The North...

For Senior Facilities, an mHealth Platform is a Good First Step to Telehealth

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For senior living facilities eyeing telehealth to improve care and staff workloads, an mHealth messaging platform may be the best place to start. CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior...

Florida Health System Includes Telehealth With the House Warming Gift

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A Florida housebuilder is selling telehealth with new homes, aiming to capitalize on the trend toward home-based connected health. CC Homes, based on Coral Gables, has partnered with Baptist Health to...

University of Miami Uses Telehealth to Remotely Treat Student-Athletes

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The University of Miami has launched a telehealth program to monitor the health of student-athletes, trainers and other athletic department staff, and may deploy the technology across the campus if...

mHealth Researchers Explore the Telehealth Value of a Tattoo

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mHealth researchers at the University of Missouri are developing temporary tattoos that could someday serve a wide range of uses in telehealth. Once the domain of sailors, athletes, artists and...

mHealth Sensors Help Hospitals Monitor Vitals in In-Patient Units

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A Michigan hospital is using mHealth sensors attached to a patient’s bed to remotely monitor vital signs, and executives see a future for the telehealth platform that goes beyond the success...

Chicago Health System Uses mHealth to Monitor Staff, Patients for COVID-19

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A Chicago health system is launching a telehealth service that will use mHealth wearables to monitor front-line employees and high-risk patients for early indications of COVID-19. The University of...

Healthcare Taps into mHealth Lexicon with ‘Conversational Agents’

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As the healthcare industry looks to mHealth to improve both the doctor and patient experience, chatbots just might be the tool that meets everyone’s needs. Also known as conversational agents,...

Sony Survey Shows Support for Doctors Prescribing mHealth Devices

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People living with a chronic condition want telehealth and mHealth tools to help manage their health at home, as long as those tools are coming from their doctor. That conclusion, from a survey...

New York OKs Telehealth Coverage for Audio-Only Phone Services

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New York has approved Medicaid and CHIP coverage for audio-only and video-only telehealth services, giving providers more opportunities to connect with patients for care. New York Governor Andrew...

New mHealth Study Uses Wearables to Identify COVID-19 Symptoms Early

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An mHealth data company is working to develop software that would enable providers to identify people with COVID-19 symptoms through remote patient monitoring platforms. California-based Evidation...

USC Doctor Combines Telehealth and, Um, Maggots to Treat a Patient

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In what may have been the first procedure of its kind, a California physician recently used a telehealth platform to debride a patient’s wound with maggots, thereby saving the patient’s...

Lessons Learned from Ebola Help UVA’s Telehealth Center Take on COVID-19

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The University of Virginia Health System is applying lessons learned during the Ebola crisis to advocate for telehealth expansion during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and beyond. Telemedicine...

Defense Dept. to Use mHealth Wearables to Test COVID-19 Treatments

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The US Department of Defense is launching a massive project aimed at using mHealth wearables to identify new treatments for people infected with the Coronavirus. The DoD is working with physIQ, a...

Tennessee Uses mHealth to Improve Care Management for Medicaid Members

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Tennessee’s Medicaid program will be using an mHealth sensor to measure medication adherence among members undergoing Hepatitis C treatment. TennCare is partnering with Proteus Digital Health on...

Researchers Create mHealth Patch to Monitor COVID-19 Patients at Home

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Researchers in Chicago are working on an mHealth wearable that will help providers monitor COVID-19 patients at home. The patch, developed by Northwestern University and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab,...

Stanford’s mHealth Project Targets Heart Health in Underserved Populations

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Stanford Medicine will soon be launching a new program that aism to determine whether mHealth wearables can be used to manage cardiovascular health in underserved populations. Armed with a $2.5...

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