Eric Wicklund
Implants are big business in healthcare, and an area ripe for mHealth innovation.
        
        
          While many people believe tracking health indicators outside the doctor's office is important, too few actually do so even though the tools are available. One tactic that might help: Incentivizing patients.
        
        
          While accountable care organizations are deploying mobile health technologies in different ways, three leading ACOs are doing so to achieve similar patient care and cost-savings goals.
        
        
          A hospital pilot project has found that a text-messaging platform targeted at high-cost Medicaid patients helped boost adherence to medications, doctor's appointments and care plans. And the patients liked the program, too.
        
        
          Overseen by Qualcomm, the project proves the viability of mHealth in helping doctors treat high-risk maternal populations throughout the world.
        
        
          Both patients and clinicians are learning valuable lessons from a pilot program at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital
        
        
          Ideomed's Abriiz app has just earned the coveted classification from the FDA. Now it's ready to market to health systems looking for a better way to engage with consumers.
        
        
          The high-tech glasses help clinicians capture data that needs to go into the EHR. Whether that causes more headaches than benefits, however, remains to be seen.
        
        
          A U.S.-Canada study of newborn infants has found that eye exams studied at a central telemedicine center are as effective in identifying eye problems as are exams by on-site ophthalmologists - and could be more beneficial.
        
        
          The agency is pulling back from regulation of some medical devices, leading mHealth experts to debate whether they're being strict enough.