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By Eric Wicklund | 09:05 am | February 06, 2015
Bill Russell, who leads IT initiatives for the California-based 14-hospital St. Joseph Health system, says mHealth should be used more to make sure patients are following doctors' orders at home.
By Eric Wicklund | 01:14 pm | February 05, 2015
The free offering to the company's 800+ hospital clients is an effort to improve real-time care coordination and push clinicians away from non-HIPAA-compliant SMS.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:02 am | February 04, 2015
A Navy vet who started out helping solo sailors now is serving their families and corporations -- and proving that concierge care can be brought up to scale to help hundreds, if not thousands.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:23 am | February 03, 2015
A partnership between the company's Cardiocom business and the LMC group will extend Medtronic's growing telehealth platform further into the home health, hospice and post-acute care market.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:27 am | January 30, 2015
The entrepreneur and keynote speaker for the upcoming HIMSS Media/Healthcare IT News Patient Engagement Summit says consumers will be attracted to mHealth if it fits into their lifestyles.
By Eric Wicklund | 02:13 pm | January 29, 2015
2 new algorithms enable users to instantly see if their ECG is normal, or if outside sources may be affecting their heart rhythm.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:55 am | January 28, 2015
Dallas-based Teladoc is clashing with at least three states -- including its home state -- over regulations that mandate an in-person first visit between doctor and patient.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:40 am | January 27, 2015
An Arizona-based specialty pharmacy reports that HIV patients using the mscripts app are three times as likely to be adherent, a key factor to suppressing the virus.
By Eric Wicklund | 12:18 pm | January 26, 2015
The proposed bill now making the rounds in DC is expected to be re-introduced during this legislative session.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:19 am | January 23, 2015
An 'emergency rule' by the Texas Medical Board prevents doctors from prescribing controlled substances via a telehealth consult, and leads to a lawsuit from one of the nation's largest telehealth providers.