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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $1.6 million research award to the Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA to study the use of videoconferencing technology to deliver behavioral health services to pediatric patients in community primary care settings.

Certain self-monitoring blood glucose systems, even though they meet accuracy standards upon FDA clearance, fail to consistently meet those standards once on the market, according to the Diabetes Technology Society.

It may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the threat is real: Personal medical devices can be hacked or infected and compromised by outside forces, putting the patient's life in jeopardy.

Unveiled at the WLSA's Convergence Summit this week in San Diego, the deal integrates the WRx Health Hub with the Vitalbeat cloud system - which, offered along with wearable sensors, enables consumers and their physicians to monitor vital signs and other biometric data on the go.