Verizon steps into mobile health apps with PBM partnership. Partnering with its own pharmacy benefits manager (PBM), Medco, the smartphone app focuses on educating members on drug costs in a Medco plan and providing lower-cost alternatives, as well as the usual… Read moreTuesday 'short subjects'

Surprised? CPM Healthcare, a Wisconsin-based marketing agency that specializes in hospital and physician marketing, surveyed thousands of consumers and found what they really want in hospital apps is the most urgent: compliance-related apps such as med and appointment reminders and post-discharge… Read moreHospital apps: health info not that compelling

TA readers are very aware that smartphones are both a boon and a challenge to manage for HIT in the healthcare environment, whether in the hospital or home care/long-term care setting: secure integration, meeting HIPAA and Joint Commission (US) requirements and… Read moreHealthcare systems and smartphone adoption

Taiwan’s Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta took a recent opportunity in Geneva to remind the world that Taiwan is getting on with setting up an integrated e-health system: “Our system encompasses medical facility and patient record reporting, health smart card issuing… Read moreTaiwan gets on with telehealth

Fast Company Design speedily picks up on connected health in the design area…and correctly. Dave Cronin, Director of Interaction Design at SmartDesign in San Francisco, tells us that home health RPM has an image problem similar to that of 1990s… Read moreHome care needs a makeover (US)