The upcoming roll-out of a mobile Personal Emergency Response Service (PERS) is being touted as a harbinger of major advancement in connected location-based services. Read »

Coming on the heels of a report in the June issue of the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention indicating that telehealth directly benefits cardiac patients, HealthFrontier and its technology partner, et medical devices SpA, Italy, on Wednesday introduced a new innovation in web-enabled electrocardiogram (ECG) technology. Read »

The introduction of a couple bills currently under review in Congress—brought forth by Sen. Norm Coleman (D-Minn.) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)—promise to bring Medicare physician reimbursement practices more in line with the pace of technology. In doing so, politicians on both sides of the isle are betting that paying physicians for their time spent evaluating data will lead to increased use of remote monitoring technologies, thereby paving the way for what many in the industry are identifying as the future of healthcare: the e-Visit. Read »