Eric Wicklund
Since it first started placing home health monitoring kits with patients discharged from Flagstaff Medical Center or Verde Valley Medical Center following treatment for congestive heart failure or related cardiac conditions in 2011, parent company Northern Arizona Healthcare says is has saved up to $92,000 per patient.
Venture capital money is pouring into mHealth technologies, and much of that funding is going to support technology that benefits providers.
A program that combines a mobile app, analytics and direct intervention is showing promise in reducing the costs associated with hospitals' most expensive patients -- the so-called "super-utilizers."
The burgeoning mHealth field offers healthcare a wealth of opportunities to engage with patients and provide a satisfactory return on investment. But if mobile medical apps are going to stand any chance of survival - with physicians as well as consumers - they'll have to be able to integrate.
Those self-service kiosks that are often seen in supermarket pharmacies are becoming comprehensive health and wellness screening stations, thanks to SoloHealth.
The burgeoning mHealth field offers healthcare a wealth of opportunities to engage with patients and provide a satisfactory return on investment. But if mobile medical apps are going to stand any chance of survival -- with physicians as well as consumers -- they'll have to be able to integrate.
Guidelines on how certain mobile medical apps will be governed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may be released as soon as the end of the year.
In the rush to regulate the fast-growing industry of mobile medical apps, Congress has apparently sidestepped a potential power struggle with the Food and Drug Administration over the agency's authority to regulate them.
For years, the compelling argument for telemedicine has been that it allows patients to access doctors at any time and from any place. Now doctors are finding that they can use telemedicine platforms to improve – and in some cases expand – their practice.
A California company known for creating an electronic health record platform for the iPad is adding payment processing and insurance eligibility tools.