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  • UnitedHealthcare expands mHealth app with payment, Fitbit functionality

    UnitedHealthcare expands mHealth app with payment, Fitbit functionality

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    UnitedHealthcare plan members can now pay medical bills via the provider’s mobile app, Health4Me; the payer’s mHealth software is the first to have an electronic bill-payment service, according to an announcement. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/unitedhealthcare-expands-mhealth-app-payment-fitbit-functionality/2015-02-23?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Two Healthcare Orgs to Connect on Cancer Care Through Telehealth

    Two Healthcare Orgs to Connect on Cancer Care Through Telehealth

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    The Calif.-based Stanford Health Care’s Cancer Center and the Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services are using telemedicine technology to allow local oncologists and other clinicians to connect to present complex or rare cancer cases and discuss treatment options and plans. The Calif.-based Stanford Health Care’s Cancer Center and the Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services are…

  • Mobile Health to Transform Care: The Case for Adoption Now – Breakaway Thinking

    Mobile Health to Transform Care: The Case for Adoption Now – Breakaway Thinking

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    The following is a guest blog post by Todd Stansfield from The Breakaway Group (A Xerox Company). Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. Mobile health (mHealth) is here to stay, and you don’t have to look far for proof. Patients now use mHealth to comparison shop basic healthcare services…

  • Mobile Applications Update

    Mobile Applications Update

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    By John Halamka I have long believed that social networking concepts, mobile devices, analytics, and cloud are key tactics for the success of any IT organization. We’re in an era as significant as the mainframe to PC revolution in which BYOD devices and apps are becoming the platform of choice. Given the regulatory/compliance mandates for…

  • Making the “Mobile” Rounds to Improve Patient Satisfaction

    Making the “Mobile” Rounds to Improve Patient Satisfaction

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    At the Ohio-based Genesis HealthCare System, leaders have recognized the importance of improving patient satisfaction, and have implemented mobile rounding solution that captures patient feedback in real-time to better their experience. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), hospitals, and insurers alike are striving to better define and measure quality of healthcare, of which…

  • Arkansas Senate puts forth bill banning telemedicine use for abortions

    Arkansas Senate puts forth bill banning telemedicine use for abortions

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    A bill that would ban a physician from prescribing drugs through telemedicine passed the Arkansas Senate on Thursday, 29-4. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/arkansas-senate-puts-forth-bill-banning-telemedicine-use-abortions/2015-02-13?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • FSMB refutes 'false and misleading' statements on telemedicine compact

    FSMB refutes 'false and misleading' statements on telemedicine compact

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    In the wake of “false and misleading public statements” about the Federation of State Medical Boards’ interstate licensure compact, FSMB is releasing a fact sheet to refute such comments. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/fsmb-refutes-false-and-misleading-statements-telemedicine-compact/2015-01-30?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • When You’ve Got Telehealth…”Snow Problem”

    When You’ve Got Telehealth…”Snow Problem”

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    0 Massachusetts General Hospital used telehealth to service snowed in Bostonians this past week so they didn’t miss an outpatient visit. It’s high time we bring direct-to-consumer telehealth to the forefront…there’s just one caveat. In some areas of Boston this week, two-plus feet of snow fell and trapped people inside their homes. In this hopeless…

  • Study: Texting Proves Better than mHealth Apps for Treating Mental Illness

    Study: Texting Proves Better than mHealth Apps for Treating Mental Illness

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    Texting may be a more suitable treatment aid for those with mental illness than mobile applications, according to new study led by researchers from Clemson University. Texting may be a more suitable treatment aid for those with mental illness than mobile applications, according to new study led by researchers from Clemson University. read more …read…

  • American Hospital Association to House Committee: Make Telehealth Global

    American Hospital Association to House Committee: Make Telehealth Global

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    Earlier this week, representatives from the Chicago-based American Hospital Association (AHA) sent a letter to the Committee on Energy and Commerce seeking a reform of Medicare policy on telehealth reimbursement. Earlier this week, representatives from the Chicago-based American Hospital Association (AHA) sent a letter to the Committee on Energy and Commerce seeking a reform of…