Sentara Health invested $11 million into smartphones for its nurses, equipping them with HIPAA-compliant devices to streamline communication, increase time at the bedside and improve patient outcomes. The program has been going on for a little more than a year — and Amy Rosa, the health system’s chief nursing informatics officer, says the initiative is already resulting in increased efficiency, documentation accuracy and patient safety.
Johns Hopkins Hospital teamed up with Healthy.io, a company that offers smartphone-based technology to improve wound care management for diabetic patients. The partners are conducting a 120-person study to measure the impact of the startup’s technology.
Elevance Health will provide smartphones with unlimited data, talk and text to some Medicaid members in 2024, it announced at CES 2024.
Binah.ai is using the smartphone camera for contactless, video-based blood pressure measurement, which the company says is a first-of-its kind technology, thereby enabling remote patient monitoring. But the FDA hasn't approved the technology yet.
Merck and Evidation Health launched a study to see if data from smartphones and wearables could be used to detect and monitor the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The nonprofit health system, which operates a telehealth platform in 13 states, struck a partnership with Capsule to offer same-day prescription delivery.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Alabama, North Dakota and South Carolina were the first states to announce plans to develop contact tracing apps that would use a framework developed by Apple and Google. Apple and Google launched their exposure notification API on Wednesday.
A JAMA Internal Medicine study found hypertension patients who used the Medisafe app showed a slight improvement in self-reported medication adherence but didn't show much improvement in blood pressure control.
Although the use of mobile technology in healthcare is growing more common, numerous obstacles still block the way to widespread adoption.