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House Committee Turns to Health Care Industry on Cybersecurity
You could be forgiven these days for thinking that there was a large-scale health care data breach every other day, with the degree to which they’ve dominated headlines in recent years. Indeed, an...
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Can Wearables Detect Epileptic Seizures and Diabetes?
An estimated 1.3 million to 2.8 million Americans currently have epilepsy, a disorder that causes chronic seizures, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. (The CDC puts the number higher, at 3.4...
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Making Lab Tests More Accessible: rHEALTH Device Approved in EU
What if you could, from the comfort of your own home and with just one drop of blood, screen yourself for a variety of health care conditions? As highlighted in an Institute of Electrical and...
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Wearables, Other mHealth Devices Empowering Users
iPhones: They’re not just for texting. This probably isn’t news to you. But as more and more people have begun using smartphones, studies have found that more than half of the phones’ owners are now...
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New Apps Monitor Falls in Seniors
For elderly patients, falls are equal parts common, dangerous, and costly. Indeed, per the National Council on Aging (NCOA), they “are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries” among Americans...
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FDA Establishes New Digital Health Unit
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making a new commitment to digital health. As Health Data Management and others first reported, the agency has established a new digital health unit, to be...
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IoT in Acute-Care Settings?
The “Internet of Things” (IoT) has been an increasingly popular topic of discussion in recent years, including in terms of its potential to better connect patients and providers in health care...
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Apple in Fast Health Company
In a recent profile piece of Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, he discussed the importance of diving deeper into the health care market. “We’ve gotten into the health arena and we started looking at wellness, that...
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Apple’s Patent-Pending Invention Highlights Work on Telehealth
Apple has applied for a patent that signals its intention to move into the telemedicine sphere, according to Patently Apple. The invention, described in a patent application published in July by the...
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FDA Sets It’s Sights on Silicon Valley’s Digital Health Boom
As the digital health market continues to grow rapidly, it is expected that regulatory scrutiny from the Food and Drug Association (FDA) and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would continue to...
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How BYOD Strategies Will Affect the Future of Mobile Health
Mobile devices and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strategies are seen as methods to improve communication between patients and physicians while also reducing health care costs and enabling better health...
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Telemedicine Boost Patient Engagement
A HealthMine Survey of 500 consumers who use mobile/Internet-connect health applications discovered 39% are not aware of telemedicine. Only one-third of the respondents to the survey identified their...
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Telehealth Study — Reduce Emergency Room Visits — Preserve Quality of Care
A newly released study conducted by the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) in Rochester, NY indicates that older individuals are likely to embrace telehealth. The research, begun in 2010,...
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Some Telemedicine Technologies Not Really Such a New Idea
Electronic monitoring in ICU’s has been around for over a decade, but what is new is the mapping of e-health technologies, such as real-time remote patient monitoring across the larger landscape of...
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Conference Speakers / EMR Telemedicine; Medical Board / Policy
Speaker Spotlight! And National Cherry Blossoms in Washington! The Robert J. Waters Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (CTeL) April 2015 Summit Agenda has been released and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC)...
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Data Security Concerns and BYOD in Telemedicine
With the goal of improving quality and timeliness of healthcare, telehealth clinicians are embracing ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) in their practices. “The devices have become well entrenched in a...
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Insurance, Direct to Consumer Telemedicine Device Speakers
Early Bird Extended through February 28th! Speaker Spotlight! The Robert J. Waters Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (CTeL) April 2015 Summit Agenda has been released and Direct-to-Consumer...
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Telemedicine and Mobile Apps — Who’s Watching? How Safe?
As reported by Reuters Health, a new study finds that millions in the United States are engaging in telehealth, measuring blood pressure with downloaded mobile health applications (mHealth apps) that...
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BYOD Telemedicine Policies’ Complexity
Penn Medicine Associate CIO of Technology and Infrastructure, John Donohue was recently interviewed about how his organization is formulating their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and mobile device...
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Payers Should Compensate Providers Who Email Their Patients
While both patients and providers move toward institutionalizing the use of telemedicine tools – such as email – two provider concerns appear to distill: Clinician work load, and Compensation for time...
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