Once a peripheral drug problem, opioid addiction has become an epidemic in the United States. To address the crisis, many innovators and government agencies are turning to digital health technologies. While words like “crisis” and “epidemic” may seem overblown, prescription … Read More
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Top 2018 conferences for digital health
Digital health is a big topic this week, with two concurrent conferences devoted to technology and healthcare kicking off on Monday and Tuesday. In Las Vegas, a portion of CES 2018’s 184,000 attendees are participating in the Digital Health Summit. … Read More
Smartphone photos are usually sufficient to diagnose skin conditions
Our ability to take and share high quality smartphone photos may improve access to health care, according to a recent teledermatology study. The findings add to a list of health conditions that can often be diagnosed remotely with a photo. … Read More
What is the economic evidence for mHealth?
We know anecdotally that mobile health solutions can be cost effective and cost saving. Physicians that use our Mobius Clinic app tell us all the time, and a quick review of the explosion of mHealth apps shows how mobility is creating … Read More
What is mobile health?
Just as mobile technology has become a seamless part of everyday American life, it is now indispensable to many parts of health care. Consider the enormous popularity of health wearables, or how tablets have untethered physicians from their desks? Or … Read More
How to take a blood pressure reading the right way
The number of American adults with high blood pressure nearly doubled last week when the American College of Cardiology (ACA) and American Heart Association (AHA) released new guidelines and definitions for hypertension. Among the new guidelines is a checklist for … Read More
How mHealth is making life better for diabetes patients
Life recently got easier for the 29 million Americans living with diabetes. In September 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first continuous glucose monitoring system (CGM) for adults that doesn’t require blood sample calibration. The approval marks the … Read More
Mobility in hospitals is key to better healthcare
In July, TechTarget’s Pulse ran a cover story about the infiltration of digital tablets and smartphones in healthcare as seen through the eyes of hospital CIOs. The takeaway? “Caregivers long tethered to computer workstations to view patient records and medical … Read More
Physicians say medical transcription technology works
Medical transcription has evolved quickly in recent years, especially as providers integrate technologies like Natural Language Processing that make real-time transcription a reality. With solutions like Mobius Scribe or Augmedix at their fingertips, physicians can instantly generate clinical notes without … Read More