While telemedicine has long focused on caring for patients in rural areas, it is increasingly being used in urban care as well. Telemedicine started out 40 years ago extending care to remote areas, but today it is being integrated into … Read More
Technology
Reimagining Patient Education in the Mobile Era
Have you ever left the hospital with a handful of pamphlets about a condition or injury, only to pull out your smartphone in the car and do a Google search? Chances are you probably looked up your symptoms even before … Read More
Can We Make the Quantified Self Relevant?
More Americans than ever before are tracking their health using wearable devices like fitness bands and smartwatches – a movement dubbed the “quantified self.” This generates a lot of personal health data, but will all this data help improve the … Read More
mHealth for horse vets and precision farming (or your overweight dog)
While we’ve been busily blogging about mHealth, it turns out the whole industry is going to the dogs – and horses. From simple pet activity monitors to a mobile ECG for horse vets, veterinary mHealth is evolving. The fact that … Read More
When the pedometer is wrong…
As we wrote last time, proposed rules for the final stage of meaningful use would require providers to incorporate data from “non-clinical” settings from at least some of their patients. Among other things, this could mean monitoring a patient’s activity … Read More
Apple Watch enters MHealth
Apple Watch began shipping about two weeks ago and it’s already clear that users are interested in the device’s health features. Fitness was a major selling point for Apple Watch from the start – by giving you a “complete picture … Read More