Eric Wicklund

The San Diego-based health system has launched Wired for Health, a large-scale study that looks to link mobile medical devices and social networks with cost-effective treatments.

With the ONC chief due to step down this fall, one of the primary agencies charged with developing mHealth regulations will be going through a transition in leadership.

MaineHealth officials say the eight-year-old VitalNetwork program, which serves nine hospitals in the state, is being discontinued because it's too expensive and isn't reimbursable.

The fast-growing, California-based provider of weight loss and management programs will be using Ondello's WebRTC standard to provide coaching and other services to consumers who want help from their homes.

The New York-based hospital is using the RateMyHospital tool to distribute real-time surveys to patients at its cancer treatment center.

The San Diego-based telecom says a project that brought smartphones and tablets to roughly 200 doctors and nurses in a remote part of the African nation met with overwhelming success in giving them clinical decision support at the point of care.

The Knight Foundation and four healthcare industry giants are offering up to $2 million for innovative technological projects that harness data and information for community health. mHealth tools and concepts should play a major role in many of the ideas.

The new incubator, launched by Palomar Health and Qualcomm Life, will develop new mHealth apps and platforms for Google's augmented-reality glasses.

The Massachusetts-based non-profit is providing mHealth tools and services to its second healthcare provider in Louisiana, and is teaming up with Project HOPE and the U.S. Navy to deliver care to several remote Pacific islands.

The Verizon Foundation, the telecom giant's charitable arm, has launched an ambitious national program to bring mHealth connectivity and tools to children, seniors, women and other underserved populations across the country.