You can call this the ‘bad news’ side of the good news lately on increased telehealth/mHealth investment and acceptance. This lengthy and well-written Mobihealthnews article discusses the increased use of litigation in patent infringement conflicts in telehealth and mHealth, such… Read moreThe 'Wild West' no longer: eHealth/telehealth patent infringement lawsuits on rise (US)

A recent change that escaped your Editors (and even the all-seeing Gimlet Eye), even as the weather changes, is the digital health influencer Eric Topol, MD’s quiet departure from the board of the West Health Institute at the end of… Read moreEric Topol steps down from West Health (US)

Rather surprising in their synchronicity were two new reports–the first from research company Frost & Sullivan, the second an academic study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)–detailing problems and concerns with mobile health from the perspective of… Read moremHealth challenges: two perspectives

If a California congressman (who ironically represents a district in California’s Silicon Valley) gets his proposed bill passed, there will be a special Office of Mobile Health at the FDA. The Healthcare Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act (HIMTA) would provide… Read moreFDA to get an Office of Mobile Health?

You wonder where the ‘driver’ is. This sobering survey of 106 healthcare organizations by Mass.-based IT consulting firm Medullan found that 19% of 106 healthcare providers, insurers and other healthcare-related organizations, when asked why they were pursuing mHealth initiatives, cited… Read moreWander alert? 19% of US health organizations pursuing mHealth without a reason

It is moving right along at Happtique, the online mHealth application ‘store’ backed by GNYHA Ventures. The first is the upcoming release of compiled comments on its 15 pages of health app certification guidelines released in July [TA 18 July]…. Read moreHapptique finalizes app certification guidelines, readies mRx (US)

As your Editors have reported since February, large companies in the telehealth field have been stepping forward aggressively to defend what they perceive as infringements on their patents and intellectual property. Robert Bosch Healthcare took the lead with their February… Read moreTelehealth patent holders continue aggressive defense

If coordinated care can lower risk, how is this not like a blockbuster drug? Using the example of coordinated cardiac care in a 2009 Kaiser study, “patients have an 88 percent reduced risk of dying of a cardiac-related cause when enrolled within 90 days of a heart attack, compared to those not in the program.” And, “clinical care teams reduced overall mortality by 76% and cardiac mortality by 73%.” Dave Chase in Forbes projects that patient engagement by nurses, doctors, pharmacists and others in the continuum of care will be…

In the UK yesterday it was the last public holiday before Christmas and in the US it is the relatively quiet semi-holiday week before US Labor Day, so here are some brief recent news items of note. Medtronic’s CareLink Express… Read moreTelehealth news briefs for a brief week

The always interesting HealthWorks Collective in their ‘Mobile Health Around The Globe’ takes us to Australia. They discuss the government initiated eHealth care system (PCEHR-Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record) with secure EHRs that can be accessed through mobile phones, the… Read moreA snapshot of mHealth Down Under