Eric Wicklund
The health system, among the nation's leaders in mHealth innovation, developed and deployed a mobile app that brings physicians and nurses closer together to better treat patients.
The three-month program aims to determine if a smartphone app can help cancer patients improve their chemotherapy adherence and ultimately bolster clinical outcomes.
The fastest demographic coming online has shown great interest in using mobile technologies, but most are still finding a lack of available options for doing so.
By building out its home-monitoring products, scheduling and patient-check in software with a fresh injection of funding, one vendor is hoping to better engage both patients and doctors.
Always dreaded and often avoided, the colonoscopy could save millions of lives each year. A web-based patient engagement platform from Emmi Solutions is now being used to ease those fears and convince people to undergo the life-saving procedure.
A bill submitted on November 15 by two California Congressmen would establish and broaden reimbursement policies for telehealth coverage.
"The World is My Waiting Room," a panel discussion scheduled for December 9 at the HIMSS Media mHealth Summit, will feature four physician champions who have learned how to fit mHealth into the clinical workflow.
Mobile health groups have written a letter asking legislators to make sure EHR incentives are tied to the integration of data generated from remote patient monitoring systems.
Multispectral imaging sensors have been deployed in four African nations to help improve immunizations and reduce wasted vaccines, potentially saving the lives of millions of young children.
The NextPen Voice, developed by Anoto and NextGen Healthcare, enables clinicians to capture, store and convert voice and handwriting into structured data for entry into a patient's medical record.