By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | July 10, 2019 The Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward with the Connected Care Pilot Program, a three-year, $100 million effort to expand telehealth and mHealth programs to benefit underserved populations, including rural residents and veterans. The program, unveiled in July 2018 [...]
By Erick Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | July 1, 2019 Hospitals and health systems are now applying mHealth to the vital and often-sensitive process of keeping family members updated during a patient’s surgical procedure. What once involved a series of phone calls – or a nurse and or/doctor sifting through a [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | June 14, 2019 UK Health officials are trying to expand their library of approved mHealth apps by creating a digital health portal for developers to screen their platforms. The National Health Service’s new digital assessment portal, which went live in May and is in [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | May 22, 2019 The Boston-based Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) has attracted a strong array of telehealth and mHealth executives as it moves to define digital medicine and create evidence-based standards. A newly formed non-profit in the mHealth and telehealth ecosystem aims to support “the [...]
By Jeff Bagasse, Healthcare Finance | May 9, 2019 Tapping into asynchronous, text-based communication could let providers cast a wider net and improve care quality. Telehealth is still the Wild West in a lot of ways. While the delivery model has the potential to extend provider outreach into remote communities [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | May 9, 2019 Healthcare providers are taking a closer look at their digital health programs and working on ways to improve access, open the door to new uses and find new ways to make mHealth data work for them. Health systems are starting to [...]
