It’s a good time to be researching the mobile health IT space. The grant money floodgates are open and all eyes are fixed on chronic disease management. The collective expectation that remote patient monitoring will set our health system free is at an all-time high, and activity levels among those organizations working to develop breakthrough systems are equally lofty. Read »

A new sleep apnea device—the brainchild of Royal Philips Electronics and Cinterion Wireless Modules—has won the Best Embedded End-to-End Service Award, part of the GSMA's Embedded Mobile Competition. By leveraging Cinterion’s cellular machine-to-machine communication modules, the M2M solution joins mobility and reliable two-way wireless communications with advancements in sleep apnea therapy to help patients and their healthcare providers, who are faced with meeting rigorous new reporting standards. Read »

Following an April 2009 announcement, in which GE Healthcare and Intel pledged to jointly develop innovative technologies for independent living and chronic disease management, the tech companies--along with Mayo Clinic--are investigating a new model of health care delivery for patients at increased risk of re-hospitalization. Read »

Dunmore, Pa.-based Traditional Home Health and Hospice is beefing up its Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patient management program with an in-home patient vital signs monitoring system. The agency, which provides home health and hospice services to patients, has implemented the Electronic House Call system from Berkeley Heights, N.J.-based ExpressMD Solutions. Read »

One of the earlier developers of mobile point-of-care technologies is getting ready to swing for the fences. AirStrip Technologies, which has built a suite of products in various stages of development for mobile devices, just named a chief sales officer to drive its RPM business. Read »

The year is off to a good start for Corventis, which just received FDA clearance to market its NUVANT Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCT) System for the detection of non-lethal arrhythmias. Equally important, the developer of wireless cardiovascular systems' Monitoring Center has been approved by CMS as an Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), and the company has received approval to bill for services provided to patients with Medicare and several commercial insurers, paving the way for the NUVANT MCT System to become available across the U.S. Read »

Telemedicine may be helping to boost the market for personalized medicine in the United States, but the technology's capacity for easing the intensivist shortage may be limited, according to a study published in the December issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, which finds the use of telemedicine in intensive care units does not improve patients' risk of death or length of stay. Read »

What's a new year without predictions? Toward that end, a trio of Forrester Research analysts has served up a glimpse into next year's hot enterprise mobility trends in a new report entitled Predictions 2010: Enterprise Mobility Accelerates Again. While it's nice to see that mobile operators will likely be ramping up 4G network investments just as IT looks to emerging cloud-based mobility services to better manage the growth in mobile users, devices, and data, the one prediction that grabbed my attention is that machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and services will become widely available next year from most top tier mobile carriers. M2M, you may recall, is key to the success of wireless healthcare monitoring. Read »

Is virtual ICU technology setting the new standard of care for community hospitals as they strive to provide the best care possible to ICU patients? Some say yes, given the need for around-the-clock intensivist care in the ICU and the difficulties faced when attempting to recruit full-time physicians. Fortunately, virtual ICU technology is going a long way towards picking up the slack, at least according to providers such as St. Mary's Health Center, an SSM Health Care facility in Jefferson City, Mo. Read »

GTSI Corp., a Herndon, Va.-based provider of enterprise technology and services, has joined the ranks of value-added resellers delivering the Intel Health Guide, a remote patient monitoring solution that combines an in-home patient device--the Intel Health Guide PHS6000--with the Intel Care Management Suite, an online interface that lets clinicians monitor patients and remotely manage care. Read »