Eric Wicklund
One company with roots in revenue cycle management is adapting to the changing healthcare landscape, thanks to its mHealth platform.
A California company receives funding for an mHealth platform designed to help smokers kick the habit. Could this be the beginning of a new wave of patches and devices that deliver medication and guidance when and wherever they're needed?
NantHealth's work with Allscripts ties the former's mHealth platform to the latter's EMR to give clinicians a tool for both targeted care management and population health.
The proposed 2016 budget includes more than $1 billion set aside for telehealth programs and $7 billion for mental health programs.
Mallesh Murugesan, who oversaw mHealth initiatives at Miami Children's Hospital before going on to launch Abeyon, says Big Data will play a more important role in the future, as silos fall and interoperability rises.
Kryptiq finds that most providers would adopt a care management platform for chronic patients within the year that meets CMS reimbursement guidelines and might include remote patient monitoring.
Two apps that promised to analyze smartphone photos of a mole for melanoma risk are being sanctioned for making those claims without evidence. It's not the first time cancer-detecting apps have come under the spotlight.
American Well's new Telemed Tablet is designed to enable doctors at the bedside to instantly connect with specialists and other care team members for consults.
A Columbia School of Nursing study finds that clinicians using clinical decision support apps at the point of care can diagnose serious chronic conditions at a much higher rate.
UnitedHealth adds four functions to its Health4Me app, and will study whether user interest is high enough to add more features.