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NASA experiment will give boost to telehealth-enabled ultrasound
Keep your eye on an obscure NASA experiment that was announced Friday. It could dramatically expand the reach of hospital telehealth programs. The experiment, Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in
mHealth market to surge 22 percent over three years
The mobile healthcare market will mushroom nearly 22 percent by the year 2014, a new market survey by global research firm RNCOS concludes. That's even faster than last year's 17 percent growth,
Verizon, Healthsense collaborate on telehealth for seniors
A few weeks ago, we asked a question about how Verizon might decide to tackle the mHealth market. We recently received something close to an answer as the telecom giant announced a partnership with
Telehealth prevents ICU deaths, research shows
Using telehealth services to monitor ICU patients can reduce mortality rates by 20%, and decrease length of stay by nearly 1.3 days, a group of Veterans Affairs researchers concluded. They evaluated
Most people with chronic disease want remote monitoring
More than three-fifths of Americans living with at least one chronic disease believe that a home medical device to manage their conditions could improve their health, according to a survey
500M will use smartphone health apps worldwide by 2015
There will be 1.4 billion people with smartphones worldwide by 2015, and 500 million of them will be using mobile health applications, according to a new study from German analysis firm
Transition to a mobile, connected health system bumpy
You don't often see the words "diabetes" and "elegant" in the same sentence--unless, of course, you're talking about smartphones. "If you have diabetes, asthma or heart disease, there's almost
Mobile health companies need to prove value
A couple of debates keep raging in mobile healthcare, and a recent, widely publicized report from PricewaterhouseCoopers has helped to fan the flames. First off, what exactly is mobile healthcare? To
The more things change...
I'm right in between speaking engagements. I leave tomorrow for Toronto, where I'll present Thursday morning in at the Mobile Healthcare and Medicine Symposia , part of a fairly big deal called Mobile
Patients don't want to pay for remote health monitoring
Old habits--and mindsets--die hard. The attitude of American consumers toward remote health monitoring devices is the same as it is for all kinds of other healthcare products and services: I want it,
