Eric Wicklund

The partnership will put Numera's Libris telehealth-telecare platform on At&T's wireless network, the latest in a string of announcements targeting the senior and chronic care market.

The 14 startups in the San Francisco-based incubator's 4th class include Beam Technologies, which is marketing a "smart toothbrush," and Wellframe, whose mobile platform helps manage a patient's transition from the hospital to the home.

Bosch Healthcare, one of the nation's largest telehealth providers, is partnering with GreatCall to develop and commercially market a home-based monitoring platform for older consumers and those with chronic conditions.

The HIT company will announce 15 Phase I winners during the 2013 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition next month in New Orleans.

A mobile device authentication expert wonders if efforts to protect personal information on mobile apps might destroy the industry.

Companies like eCaring, which exhibited in the Aging 2.0 pavilion at last year's mHealth Summit, are using mHealth platforms to help the nation's growing ranks of seniors work longer, stay at home longer and enjoy more healthy lifestyles.

AirStrip and CardioNet announce a partnership to push cardiac monitoring data onto clinician's mobile devices, while a consumer-facing app developed by Wisconsin's Marshfield Clinic using Archimedes' IndiGO CDS tool wins the Million Hearts Initiative's Risk Check Challenge.

In this Q&A with mHIMSS.org Editor Eric Wicklund, Rock Health's Amy Puliafito explains how the non-profit got its start, and how it's helping digital health entrepreneurs gain a foothold in an ever-changing industry.

Mobile Commons has joined Sanofi US and the Prostate Cancer Foundation to launch a program that sends targeted messages to men undergoing chemotherapy for prostate cancer.

In this analysis, mHIMSS.org Editor Eric Wicklund refutes a critic's charge that social media is a "waste of time" in the healthcare setting.