"It'll be quite a few years before we have a handle on this technology and how it's going to be regulated by the FDA, if at all," a Washington lawyer said at a recent Food and Drug Law Institute conference.
HIMSS Media does the inevitable, and pulls the plug on mHealthNews.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Mobile health app makers that are successful are more likely to develop apps for hospitals as opposed to people with chronic conditions and tend to rely on revenues from health services delivered through their apps, according to a survey of 5,000 by research2guidance.
In addition to transmitting alerts to health plan member mobile devices, HealthCrowd Co-Founder and CEO Bing Doh said she wants to help health plans normalize communication with their customers.
A three-month experiment in Canada with bimonthly text messages, a Web portal and home-based medical devices produced an average weight decrease of 3.5 pounds and a mean reduction in hemoglobin A1c levels from 7.41 to 6.77 percent in Type 2 diabetics.
VC firm Norwest Venture Partners led the round, joined by repeat investors Shasta Ventures, OrbiMed and Reed Elsevier, as well as new participants Invus Group and Accolade Partners. TigerText also released updates to its apps, including a new one for the Apple Watch.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Vic Gundotra, former senior vice president at Google, replaces board member Euan Thomson, who had been interim CEO of AliveCor since August 2013.
The most damning insight comes from the question of why they stopped using the apps they downloaded.
Study suggests the impact that digital health can have on chronic conditions.
So many health apps, so few users, unless they're sick. But, hey — surprise — HealthMine has the perfect wellness program for those who do use apps.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
So many medical app developers have great ideas but screw up the fundamentals.
Africa is way ahead of the U.S. using mobile technology to engage patients.
Among the observations: it's not good enough to look at apps as a standalone intervention strategy.
A group founded by a University of Vermont Medical School pediatrician believes that a smartphone triage tool aimed at community health workers in developing countries could go some ways to reducing preventable child deaths in these areas
"I have to confess, I didn't know we were going to be right after Tim Cook," AirStrip CEO Alan Portela told MedCity News.