By Meg Bryant, Healthcare DIVE | January 17, 2019 Dive Brief: Apple is in talks with at least three private Medicare plans about making Apple Watches available to seniors to monitor health and fitness, CNBC reports. According to sources familiar with the talks, the payers are seeking ways to subsidize [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | December 13, 2018 Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's are working on an mHealth platform consisting of an ingestible capsule that can be monitored and controlled by a Bluetooth-enabled mobile health device for several days. Researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT are working on a [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | November 27, 2018 The first mHealth platform to receive federal approval for the treatment of people with substance abuse issues is now available to providers as a prescription-based digital therapeutic. The reSET mHealth app, developed by Pear Therapeutics, offers a 12- week (90-day) treatment [...]
By Paul Cerrito and John Halamka, Healthcare Analytics News | November 26, 2018 It may be hard to imagine a time when prescribing a mobile health (mHealth) app for patients is as common as writing a script for an antibiotic or statin, but if the quality of mHealth apps continues [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | November 2, 2018 CMS has issued its final update to the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program, including three new CPT codes for reimbursement of remote patient monitoring. The changes mark an important step in the government's acceptance of mHealth and telehealth [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | October 29, 2018 Several hospitals and health systems across the country will be participating in a massive mHealth study to determine whether an mHealth app and the Apple Watch can be used to improve care management and outcomes for patients undergoing knee or hip [...]
