Eric Wicklund
The scenario may be far-fetched at present, but those participating in a medical device panel at the HIMSS Privacy & Security Forum this week say providers have to be more vigilant about medical device security.
A successful pilot at two hospitals in which heart failure patients were linked to DocView's mHealth platform for at-home monitoring resulted in no readmissions or adverse events requiring a phone call.
The company, launched by Intel and GE in 2011, has introduced a patient-facing, cloud-based platform that enables consumers and their family caregivers to connect on their own mobile devices with providers, reducing the cost of a home-based telemonitoring program and enabling providers to scale up the system to more patients.
The Silicon Valley company secures the top spot in the ONC's national competition to promote patient-facing apps that can access and manage health records.
Former Allscripts executive Glen Tullman is set to launch Zest Health, an mHealth startup that aims to help consumers make smarter decisions about their healthcare and guide self-insured employers in choosing the right health plans.
A new partnership with San Francisco-based MyFitnessPal gives the global health company an mHealth platform from which to promote (and reward members for) healthy eating and exercise habits.
The mHELP program, unveiled at this week's mHealthEd confernce in Dublin, Ireland, will offer expert assistance, training, tools and consultancy services to mHealth projects and programs in low-resource settings.
The so-called TELE-MED Act, introduced this week in the House, would enable healthcare providers to use telemedicine to treat Medicare patients across state lines without requiring different licenses for each state.
The Third Annual mHealthEd Conference, to be held this week in Dublin, Ireland, will bring together a wide variety of mHealth advocates, global health executives and new media entrepreneurs.
Recent contracts landed by RTLS vendors Versus Technology and Stanley Healthcare point to the value of mHealth solutions in preventing newborn abductions and assaults on hospital staff.