By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealth News | April 30, 2019 In Jane Sarasohn-Kahn's new book, she argues that we must make the move from health consumers to health citizens. When we talk about health consumerism or the consumerization of health, the topic encompasses a lot of disparate ideas. In her new [...]
By Jessica Davis, Health IT Security | April 29, 2019 The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights recently released guidance to address the increase use of patient health apps and questions around HIPAA compliance. According to officials, the FAQs are designed to address HIPAA right of access [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | April 25, 2019 Health insurers are finding new ways to partner with mHealth companies to improve care management and coordination for their members. This week Oscar Health, a digital health-based health plan launched in New York in 2012, announced a partnership with Cardiogram to [...]
By Meg Bryant, Healthcare DIVE | April 25, 2019 Dive Brief: Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University’s jointly run MedTech Accelerator tapped six startups for its inaugural cohort this week, including makers of wearables, apps and monitoring devices. The announcement caps a nationwide competition to find promising early stage medical device and [...]
By Kevin Truong, MedCity News | April 24, 2019 At the MedCity INVEST Conference in Chicago, the FDA's Bakul Patel spoke about the recent developments in the agency's thinking about regulating the emerging Software as a Medical Device space. The emergence of new data sources and the ubiquity of cloud [...]
By Laura Lovett, MobiHealth News | April 23, 2019 Last night at a Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs event, industry players discussed the ins and outs of how to validate a digital health product, regardless of funding. Once a promising futuristic industry, digital health is merging into mainstream medicine. Now in [...]
