Mobile Health IT
Doctors on the front lines of the opioid crisis find text messaging helpful in managing treatment with patients.
WeCounsel to rebrand as a multispecialty, InTouch Health patients can initiate consults from home and Teladoc releases a new single, patient-centered point of access app.
Machine learning and Smart on FHIR work with prescription drug monitoring data to battle overdoses.
The policy outlined now mirrors the current position of the Joint Commission, which underwent its own series of flip-flops on the subject in 2016.
The hospital also added the BabyScripts Medicaid experience tool for women’s health.
With a new administrator at the helm, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took steps toward regulating decision support, software-as-a-medical-device, mobile tech in clinical trials and more.
Hospital says 8 percent more patients using the app were alive after 180 days than those not using the software, which alerts clinicians when heart failure conditions become more advanced.
With 10 pilots in development, products will get to market with real data and added value for hospitals and payers.
Smartphone software programs from the likes of athenahealth’s Epocrates, Doximity, Medscape, Wolters Kluwer and others are giving both clinicians and patients more confidence in diagnosis and treatment options.
Global digital exemplar launches new app to improve the experience of children in hospital.