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FCC 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 December. Quinn has previously worked at a number of government agencies, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Agency for Healthcare Research [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2013 8:44 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, American Telemedicine Association, wireless health, AHRQ, mobile health regulation, Federal Communications Commission, West Health Institute, NIST, Rural Health Care, national broadband policy, healthcare policy, FCC healthcare director, Matthew Quinn

FCC 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 for that position has now been posted by the FCC. According to the post, the Director of Health Care Initiatives will serve for a maximum of four years. The [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2012 1:11 PM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, FDA, wireless health, FCC, NIH, Federal Communications Commission, mobile health jobs

Qualcomm 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 pharmacogenomic diagnostic tests, and apps and embedded sensors for tracking and predicting heart attacks, Type 1 diabetes and some types of cancer. The monies will help fund [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2012 7:31 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, diabetes, AirStrip Technologies, Heart Disease, Scripps Health, wireless health, Qualcomm Life, DNA Electronics, Qualcomm Foundation, genetic tests, embedded sensors, Scripps Translational Science Institute, Scripps Digital Medicine

By 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 wireless medical devices will be purchased by the consumers themselves, the firm predicts. The demand for self-monitoring is outpacing telehealth implementations, according to IMS [...] Read More...

Published Thu, May 05 2012 7:16 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, consumer health, wireless health, wireless enabled medical devices, InMedica Research, mobile health metrics, AliveCor iPhoneECG, IMS Research

@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 when the iPhone was not even out yet: ”Rob talked about wireless technology and I wondered ‘what’s this guy talking about?’” Sayen recalled during his [...] Read More...

Published Thu, May 05 2012 6:57 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: CMS, Uncategorized, Payers, payors, wireless health, mobile health reimbursement, WLSA Convergence Summit, Centers Medicare Medicaid

Survey: 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 physicians from Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Spain and the US, and about 200 in Singapore. Within the report’s almost 300 pages are a number [...] Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2012 8:35 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, mobile health apps, Connected Health, mobile health, chronic condition management, wireless health, digital health, Accenture physician survey, biometric tracking devices, Accenture Connected Health survey

Patient 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 percent for the next five years. GBI notes that advancements in wireless and sensor technologies are driving the patient [...] Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2012 12:08 PM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, remote patient monitoring, China Mobile Health, mobile health research, wireless health, India mobile health, GBI research, MedTech, medical device market research, wireless remote patient monitoring

You 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 question on the popular LinkedIn Wireless Health group’s message board. Some of the responses are expected, others are, shall we say, interesting: “Generally, m-health uses mobile cellular technology, [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 6:27 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, telemedicine, telehealth, mobile health, wireless health, connected fitness, wellness apps

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 aging populations and chronic diseases and it’s not just sick people who are looking to mobility to improve health conditions, according to a newly published [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2011 7:43 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, mobile health, wireless health, mobile health gaming, Carlos Slim Health Institute, United Nations Foundation, McKinsey & Co, body area networks

ATA: Telemedicine is proven already

Telemedicine is no longer “turning the corner,” American Telemedicine Association (ATA) CEO Jon Linkous wrote in a recent blog post. “For years we talked about reaching the point when telemedicine services became self-sustaining outside of temporary grants, going from promise to reality,” wrote Linkous. “We have long passed the point of telemedicine being a new application. [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2011 7:29 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, telemedicine, American Telemedicine Association, ATA, wireless health, mHealth reimbursement, MedTrix Group, Ontario Telehealth Network

USC aims to become epicenter of wireless health

The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC), an initiative to study and create the future of wireless medicine, recently announced its 17 founding members. The members will support wireless health research and innovation, and help develop product prototypes. The founding members of the CBC include Agamatrix, AirStrip Technologies, Apollo Health Resources, Avery Dennison Medical Solutions, Ayogo [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2011 6:20 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, AirStrip Technologies, Medtronic, Proteus Biomedical, Center for Body Computing, Boston Scientific, wireless health, University of Southern California, Massive Health, St. Jude Medical, Dr. Leslie Saxon, Zephyr Technology

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