Brigham and Women’s Hospital is launching an mHealth program to track medication adherence for patients who have been prescribed opioids.
The Boston-based hospital’s Center for Pain...
Radiologists and psychiatrists are most interested in telehealth jobs, according to a new report from Doximity, while anesthesiologists and surgeons are showing the least interest.
The 2020 State of...
A global survey of people living with type 1 diabetes has found that three-quarters who moved to a telehealth platform during the coronavirus pandemic would stay on the platform once the emergency has...
The Department of Defense is working with Philips to create a telehealth platform that would remotely monitor service members for infectious diseases, including the coronavirus.
Officials say the...
Federal officials have unveiled a new treatment model for patients living with kidney disease that could boost interest in telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs.
The Centers for Medicare...
The University of California at San Francisco and eight digital health companies are receiving almost $23 million in federal funding to develop telehealth and mHealth platforms that address the...
New York’s largest health system is launching a telehealth program for skilled nursing facilities, aimed at reducing hospitalizations and enabling SNFs to provide more care on site.
Northwell...
While federal and state regulators are developing strategies to give telehealth room to grow after the coronavirus pandemic, a recent series of surveys among New York physicians suggests that growth...
A California-based initiative known for bringing telehealth to underserved communities is launching a new program to improve access to care for rural agricultural workers and their families.
The...
Washington DC lawmakers are set to enact a new law that would greatly expand telehealth coverage for postpartum care.
The Postpartum Coverage Expansion Act Amendment of 2020, which was passed...
Engineers at Purdue University have developed an mHealth wearable that uses ozone to improve wound care at home.
The connected health platform consists of a disposable, gas-permeable patch that covers...
The federal government is clarifying how it regulates remote patient monitoring, with changes that could significantly affect – and potentially restrict - how care providers use telehealth and...
A Texas hospital is launching a telehealth program that will use mHealth wearables to improve care management for patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
The Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute...
Two digital health organizations have joined forces to develop guidelines to protect health information gathered by consumer-facing mHealth devices.
The Draft Consumer Privacy Framework for Health...
Roughly two dozen mHealth and telehealth companies are joining forces with the Consumer Technology Association to develop standards for digital therapeutics.
The CTA’s initiative aims to create...
Amid the calls for expanded telehealth coverage beyond the coronavirus pandemic, one group is pressing federal officials to boost wireless broadband connectivity to give remote patient monitoring...
Early results from a study launched in May by Fitbit indicate mHealth wearables can help providers identify people infected with the coronavirus – often before symptoms are evident.
According to...
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is issuing more than $22 million in grants to several projects that asses how telehealth has been used during the coronavirus pandemic.
Seven...
mHealth researchers are reporting that wearables combined with an AI platform can help healthcare providers track the severity of Parkinson’s disease.
As reported in a recent issue of Nature, a...
A remote patient monitoring program for babies who’ve had heart surgery has helped reduce infant mortality by some 40 percent, according to the American Heart Association.
In a scientific...
