By Natasha Singer | February 25, 2018 An emerging field, digital phenotyping, tries to assess people’s well-being based on their interactions with digital devices. Your digital footprint — how often you post on social media, how quickly you scroll through your contacts, how frequently you check your phone late at night [...]
URAC Staff | February 13, 2018 WASHINGTON, DC – February 13, 2018 -- AbleTo, Inc., a technology-enabled provider of behavioral health solutions based in New York City, achieved an important milestone when it became the first behavioral health solutions provider to earn URAC Telehealth Accreditation. This achievement reaffirms AbleTo’s commitment [...]
By Eric Wicklund | February 9, 2018 Telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement scored huge successes in the budget deal signed into law by President Donald Trump, with one senator saying the law does more for Medicare coverage of telehealth than any past legislation. The two-year budget deal, approved by Congress after [...]
By Juliet Van Wagenen | February 1, 2018 Videoconferences are playing a huge role in improving asthma treatment, mental health and neonatal care in metropolitan areas. While rural populations have already benefitted greatly from telehealth, urban populations could stand to gain equally as much from the technology. Videoconferencing technology has [...]
By Reuters Staff | Nov 30, 2017 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared a device embedded in an Apple Inc watch band that monitors a user’s heart rate, detects when something is amiss and prompts the user to take an electrocardiogram. Apple watches are seen at a new Apple [...]
By ERIN DIETSCHE | Dec 5, 2017 For many patients, the world of prescription medications is complicated. While working as a pharmacist at Walgreens, Michael Rea noticed how frustrating it was for consumers. He kept getting asked the same question over and over again: Why has the cost of my drugs gone up? The expense [...]
