Eric Wicklund
Physicians are taking a more active role in helping patients battle obesity - and turning to mHealth in particular - in trying to convince consumers to lose weight. But it isn't as easy as recommending an app or texting the number of calories in a Twinkie.
In an era where developer contests tease participants with fame more than fortune, this effort to essentially recreate an iconic sci-fi tool into a modern-day mobile medical scanner offers real money to the winner.
From biometric sensors to smartwatches, some of the brightest minds in academia and healthcare agreed that mHealth won't succeed unless it means something to those who are using it.
Most providers have at least a rudimentary understanding of bring-your-own-device guidelines, but how many are planning ahead for when those smartphones, tablets and other devices tie into the EMR?
New technologies, combined with healthcare worker shortages and federal penalties for readmissions, are giving the home healthcare industry added value as the nation shifts to a patient-centered approach.
A comprehensive study of mobile health apps in the consumer marketplace finds that many have limited uses, aren't being downloaded, aren't addressing healthcare's most pressing needs and aren't being recommended by physicians.
The SOFTWARE Act, filed on October 22 by six legislators, would separate health software into three categories – clinical, health and medical – and give the FDA jurisdiction over only one of them.
Partners HealthCare's Connected Health Symposium, held last week in Boston, made it abundantly clear that while mHealth may be the bridge to tomorrow's healthcare ecosystem, consumers won't use digital health tools unless they're comfortable.
EHRs aren't collecting the right data for the patient or the clinician, experts said, and unless EHRs can synch with mobile devices to access that information, they rick becoming obsolete.
The San Diego-based Scripps Translational Science Institute, headed by Eric Topol, MD, will get $29 million over the next five years to continue its work in bioinformatics, genomics, and wireless health.