A growing contingency of health insurance companies are marketing mobile health apps to, ideally at least, better serve their members. But that can be a tough pursuit, opening payers to scrutiny and raising questions about the very experience they're trying to offer.
A review of apps offered by more than a dozen insurers in the iTunes store reveals a wide range of mobile options being offered and...
Now that Apple has said its eagerly awaited HealthKit is ready to use, two insurers are wasting no time posting apps integrated with Apple's software to the App Store.
Humana and the Health Care Service Corporation, in fact, are trying to both test new wellness ideas and attract tech-savvy members by running their own apps in conjunction with Apple’s HealthKit, the platform for iOS users to...
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s proposed regulation of mobile health isn’t making everyone happy. The approach will hinder innovation, says Scott Gottlieb, MD, an American Enterprise Institute analyst and former FDA deputy commissioner, in a recent Wall Street Journal article.
But if Apple’s optimistic plans for the Health Kit mobile suite are any indication, the FDA is doing well so...
The nation’s largest insurer is making a bet on the convergence of wellness and wearable technologies, and maybe even encouraging aspiring entrepreneurs to drop out of college.
The UnitedHealth Group, through its Optum subsidiary, is buying a majority stake in Audax Health Solutions, a Washington D.C.-based maker of web and mobile health risk assessment and engagement applications.
United is not...
A cardiac patient of the Robert Wood Johnson University Health System was having problems at about 2 a.m. She was wearing a telemetry monitor that notified her doctor, who, in turn, got the catheterization lab ready even before the patient arrived at the hospital.
But there is a harsh reality underlying that particular example.
"There are 10 other things like that we could be doing,” CEO Stephen...
A remote care management pilot that makes use of mHealth tools and services has been launched in Mississippi. Officials hope it will make an impact in the state with the highest percentage of adult diabetics and cut into the $3 billion in diabetes-related health costs that the state incurs each year.
The Diabetes Telehealth Network was unveiled this week by Gov. Phil Bryant. The public-private...
The end of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality policy might give telehealth and mobile app developers an edge in the suddenly-wide-open race to grab available wireless spectrum.
Then again, it might not.
While the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' recent ruling that broadband providers don’t have to treat all Internet traffic equally won’t mean the “end of the Internet,” as some...
HIV diagnostics could be as easy as a blood sugar test, if a new biochip technology created by University of Illinois researchers can be affordably mass-produced.
As a PhD student at University of Illinois in Urbana, nanotechnology engineer Nicholas Watkins developed a chip using electrical sensing to measure the CD4 – or “helper T” – white blood cells that decline in people infected with HIV....
Games have some of the highest expectations in mHealth, and entrepreneurs and technologists have some pretty grand expectations for transforming healthcare.
About 10 years after the Games for Health project launched, a number of health game companies and inventors convening at the mHealth Summit’s Innovation Zone are offering their visions of what video games can do for chronic care management,...
Medicare is expanding coverage for telehealth consults in 2014 as part of a gradual embracing of the technology.
In Medicare’s 2014 physician fee schedule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined several new telehealth services and service regions that will be reimbursed by the government.
CMS is expanding the geographic areas where Medicare will cover telehealth from strictly-...
