Report: Future of health is mobile, but outcomes count
The potential of mobile healthcare has been well documented, but the growth may be coming from some unexpected quarters. It’s not only highly industrialized countries that are feeling the effects of...
View ArticleYou say mobile, I say wireless, but it doesn’t really matter
It’s come up again. “I am studying the wireless healthcare market and wanted to understand if there is any difference between wireless healthcare and mobile healthcare (m-health) market,” reads the...
View ArticlePatient monitoring device market to hit $8B in 2017
According to a new report from GBI Research, the global patient monitoring devices market will hit $8 billion in 2017, up from $6.1 billion in 2010. The firm pegs the device market’s CAGR at about 4...
View ArticleSurvey: 8 percent of MDs say patients use biometric monitors
Earlier this year Accenture published a report, Connected Health: The Drive to Integrated Care, that analyzed the results of a survey of 3,727 physicians in eight countries. Accenture interviewed 500...
View Article@WLSA: Time to secure reimbursement is not a bottleneck, CMS says
By Padma Nagappan David Sayen, regional administrator for the western states with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recalled meeting Rob McCray, president and CEO of WLSA back in 2006...
View ArticleBy 2017: 50M consumer wireless health devices to ship
During the next five years more than 50 million wireless health monitoring devices for consumers will ship, according to a report from IMS Research. In 2016 about 80 percent of these consumer-facing...
View ArticleQualcomm funds study of bloodstream sensors, app-enabled genetic tests
The Qualcomm Foundation announced this week that it had awarded the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) $3.75 million to fund clinical trials focused on wireless biosensor systems, rapid...
View ArticleFCC posts job for healthcare director
Back in September, MobiHealthNews reported that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) mHealth taskforce recommended, among other things, that the FCC hire a healthcare director. A job posting...
View ArticleLiveblog Day 2: Congressional hearing on FDA regulating apps
We are live blogging day two of the Congressional hearings on FDA regulation of mobile medical apps. Hit “refresh” on your browser every few minutes for updates! (Liveblogging is now concluded!)...
View ArticleFCC picks Quinn as new director of health care initiatives
Without any noticeable fanfare, the Federal Communications Commission has chosen its new director of health care initiatives: Matthew Quinn. The agency first published a job posting for the position in...
View ArticleIn-Depth: Revisiting Topol’s Top Ten Digital Health Targets
Five years ago this month, Scripps Health’s Chief Academic Officer Dr. Eric Topol began a speaking tour about the potential of digital health at a mobile industry event in Las Vegas. One of his...
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