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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...

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...

Lawmakers Ask CMS to Expand mHealth Coverage for Mental Health Services

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A group of lawmakers is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand mHealth access to mental health services by allowing people to connect by phone. In a letter to Health and...

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...

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...

SF Hospitals Test mHealth Wearables for Coronavirus Monitoring

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More than 2,000 care providers in San Francisco are using mHealth wearables to monitor their temperature in a program designed to identify people who’ve been infected by the Coronavirus as...

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...

States Move Quickly to Address Coronavirus Pandemic With Telehealth

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Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have so far amended existing laws or issued new declarations to expand the use of telehealth and mHealth tool during the Coronavirus (COVID-19)...

FCC Expands Access to Broadband Resources for Telehealth Providers

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Federal officials are relaxing broadband rules to enable hospitals and health systems to work with Internet service providers to improve connectivity for telehealth and mHealth programs. The Federal...

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,...

Congressman Wants Medicare to Cover Telehealth for Chronic Pain Relief

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Congress is set to debate a bill mandating Medicare coverage for mHealth tools and platforms that focus on relieving chronic pain. HR 5833, introduced in February by US Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH), would...

Amazon Adds Drug Information to its mHealth Platform for Alexa

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A new mHealth partnership will give Amazon Alexa users detailed information on the drugs they’re taking, adding a new dimension of care management to digital health assistants. Amazon announced...

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