Ephraim Schwartz

While the pendulum appears to be swinging in the direction of inexpensive smartphones as sophisticated point-of-care devices, there are reasons to believe it could swing back.

Facilities such as Texas Health Harris Methodist and the University of Maryland Medical Center are incorporating RFID tags to better manage assets, from pills and pillows to locating patients when visitors arrive. And they're reaping big savings.

If pharmaceutical companies begin offering prescription mobile apps, as some are predicting, it could upend the industry and ultimately foster more collaborative treatment decisions between patients and doctors.

Expanding a doctor's reach into prison systems can help states deliver better care at a lower cost. And yes, it benefits that patient population, too.

Patient engagement is the cornerstone of mhealth at a hospice where technologies are enabling patients to skip the emergency room and often times stay home, safely.

With so many mobile vendors rushing to market diabetes applications and devices, will the lessons they learn translate to better mHealth products across the board?

The concept of big data applied to healthcare could be driving the industry toward personalized mobile healthcare but first the data collection and analytics need to be ironed out.

There is a vast difference between sales presentations chock full of a technology's potential and the real world, wherein hospital residents encounter many patients every busy day.

Researchers are working on a bracelet and pendant that double as a health data collection hub that creates a continuous interface for sending information to an electronic health record.

Arming physicians with mobile devices linked to back-end medical treasure troves could shape the practice of medicine. A small first step is already being taken.