Mobile Health news and information

StartUp Health, a New York-based incubator for health technology startups, admitted 14 new companies into its three-year development program this week. The program, which received 1,200 applications in the past year, aims to give new medical companies long-term mentoring and access to capital.
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Improving efficiency and cutting costs in healthcare means better collaborating with patients. Web portals and mobile applications can help, but only if they connect with the myriad systems that doctors actually use. Organizations can't forget that a little empathy goes a long way, too.
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Dr. Teresa Myers, an Akron, Ohio-based physician, is among a growing group of physicians in the U.S. practicing telemedicine. She currently works with the Online Care Group, which manages physicians for American Well, which this week announced the introduction of $49 10-minute video chats with...
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Digital Technology Impacting Healthcare is a Modern Healthcare three-part webinar series sponsored by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA).
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On Jan. 1, nearly 200,000 San Diego County residents will qualify for subsidized health insurance under the healthcare reform law, and an additional 100,000 will be newly eligible for Medi-Cal coverage. Local health systems say they are turning to technology to help increase the capacity of their...
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society opened its 30,000-square-foot Innovation Center on Oct. 8 as part of the Global Center for Health Innovation's ribbon cutting in downtown Cleveland.
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David Muntz, who recently stepped away from the No. 2 health IT job at HHS, will join GetWellNetwork as CIO in late October.
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The annual Health 2.0 Conference is wrapping up in Santa Clara, Calif., today, and with it come several launches worth noting.
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AirStrip named Dr. Matt Patterson COO, a new role at the San Antonio-based mobile health technology company.
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An emerging digital revolution in medicine is underway. Beyond consumer-driven apps that count calories or encourage exercise, mobile technology is beginning to significantly change how doctors practice medicine.
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