Status quo doesn't sit well with the innovation team at Boston Children's Hospital Erin McCann At a recent Institute for Health Technology Transformation event in Boston, the hospital's chief innovation officer, Naomi Fried, explained how four new mHealth tools are improving the inpatient experience for patients, families and clinicians.  More
LyfeChannel wins HHS mobile app challenge Erin McCann The California-ased company wins the $50,000 grand prize for its myfamily app, which is designed to help family members better manage an entire family's health by using healthfinder.gov content.  More
Intermountain's NICU telehealth project brings parents closer to their newborns April 10, 2013 | Erin McCann The project, being undertaken at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, will enable parents to keep a constant eye on their hospitalized babies - and improve communications with the attending physicians.  More
Senators re-introduce Fostering Independence Through Technology Act March 21, 2013 | Erin McCann Legislators hope the fifth time is the charm for this Medicare-focused telemedicine bill.  More
Interoperability Showcase organizers hope to bring down the house November 26, 2012 | Erin McCann New to the 2012 mHealth Summit, the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase will offer the biggest and best advances in wireless technology designed to bolster industry interoperability.  More
mHealth app takes on nation's leading cause of death October 26, 2012 | Erin McCann With sights set on tackling the U.S. heart disease epidemic, a new mobile health application allows consumers to use any smartphone camera to measure their heart rate in real time.  More
Health eVillages launches new mHealth initiative in Africa October 18, 2012 | Erin McCann The year-old nonprofit is working with Oakstone Publishing to deliver tablets loaded with medical information to clinicians at Kenya's Kijabe Hospital, which treats some 10,000 patients a month from all over eastern Africa.  More
Mayo study proves value of smartphones in stroke treatment October 03, 2012 | Erin McCann A recent study by the Mayo Clinic indicates smartphones can be used by neurologists to help diagnose and treat stroke patients.   More
Mayo Clinic extends telestroke services to Navajo Nation September 27, 2012 | Erin McCann An agreement between Mayo's Arizona center and Tuba City Regional Health Care will enable Mayo Clinic neurologists to treat stroke victims in the Navajo Nation's largest city via telemedicine.  More
Ford launches voice-activated asthma app August 03, 2012 | Erin McCann The Allergy Alert app is the first product of a year-long program, in which the carmaker is partnering with several mHealth developers to create health and wellness tools for drivers.  More
Walmart clinics go live with the cloud June 01, 2012 | Erin McCann It's about to get a bit cloudy for Walmart. The retail giant has gone live with cloud-based technology in its health clinics.  More
House approves FDA bill, medical devices to see new regs May 31, 2012 | Erin McCann Lawmakers recently found themselves in the unfamiliar territory of bipartisanship when the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Food and Drug Administration Reform Act, which could speed medical device approval.  More
Hearing loss technology wins global mHealth competition May 30, 2012 | Erin McCann The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in partnership with Brazil's Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, has won the Mobile Health University Challenge with software that screens for hearing impairment.  More
FCC gives green light to wireless medical devices May 25, 2012 | Erin McCann The Federal Communications Commission s voted to set aside protected broadband spectrum for medical body area networks (MBANs), better enabling these wireless medical devices and setting the stage for big changes in the way patients are monitored.  More
Report: Wireless medtech market driven more by consumers than telehealth May 23, 2012 | Erin McCann Self-monitoring medical devices utlized by the consumer, rather than those used in a managed telehealth setting, will provide the largest market for wireless health technologies, IMS Research officials say. An estimated 50 million wireless health devices will be distributed for consumer monitoring applications over the next five years.  More
St. Vincent telehealth program sees reduced readmssions, big ROI May 22, 2012 | Erin McCann Bluetooth-capable stethoscopes, allowing doctors to hear heart sounds from across the country, are just one innovation Saint Vincent Health System is using in its new telehealth network, which has reduced hospital readmissions and generated a 100 percent ROI in less than two months, officials say.  More