Washington, DC-based Medicaid managed care organization, D.C. Chartered Health Plan, is rolling out a pilot text messaging program for members with diabetes. The Medicaid plan is providing 50 of its members with the free messages, which will include tips about living with diabetes, as part of a broader program that includes in-person visits.
The texts aim to encourage patients to schedule annual...
Results of a pilot study of a mobile app meant to improve medication compliance among chronically ill, low-income patients are mixed but encouraging, the pilot's facilitators announced at an event MobiHealthNews attended in Washington, DC this week.
The study, funded by a grant from Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach initiative and conducted at the George Washington University Medical Center, found that a...
WellDoc announced that it had integrated its mobile-enabled diabetes coaching platform with a "leading electronic health records (EHR) system," which MobiHealthNews has learned is Allscripts EHR. WellDoc has called this the "first integration of an mHealth solution into an EHR," but it started with Allscripts because its partner, George Washington University Medical Center uses that records...
In less than a year the Veterans Affairs Medical Center hopes to enable its patients to use their own smartphones to "help speed up their diagnoses," associate chief of staff for informatics Divya Shroff told the Washington Examiner. Equipping the patient with access to the appropriate medical information is just the next step in a trial the VA has been conducting with mobile health firm mVisum...
