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Pear's digital therapeutic reSET-O FDA cleared to treat opioid use disorder

By Laura Lovett December 10, 2018

The FDA has officially cleared reSET-O — a digital therapeutic to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) jointly developed by Pear Therapeutics and Sandoz, a division of Novartis — a little over a year after it was granted an Expedited Access Pathway designation from the agency. This announcement makes reSET-O the first digital therapeutic to treat patients with OUD. Patients will need a valid...

Conrad Tucker, Penn State associate professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, compares VideoVitals' reading against that of a Masimo Rad-97 patient monitoring device. (Photo courtesy Penn State)

Gates-backed Penn State, Johns Hopkins project measures heart rate from 4 ft. away with cellphone cameras

By Jonah Comstock December 10, 2018

Researchers from Penn State and Johns Hopkins, backed by a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are developing technology that could read peoples' vital signs from up to four feet away using only a cellphone camera. The team has published a detailed account of the work in the open access journal Biomedical Optics Express. But the funding from the foundation will allow the...

Hill-Rom's new smart bed will incorporate Early Sense's continuous monitoring system

By Laura Lovett December 10, 2018

Hospital beds may soon be another resource to help medical teams continuously monitor patients. This morning Hill-Rom, a medical technology company best known for its hospital beds, announced that it is integrating EarlySense’s contact free monitor into its Centrella model bed. Early Sense’s heart rate and respiratory rate sensing technology will now be integrated into Centrella, a smart...

Pedestrians walk by a T-Mobile store on April 24, 2017 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

T-Mobile provides 70K lines of wireless service to the VA to support telehealth efforts

By Jonah Comstock December 10, 2018

As part of a larger Department of Defense contract, wireless carrier T-Mobile will be providing 70,000 lines of wireless service to the Department of Veterans Affairs to increase the availability of telehealth services to veterans, the company announced today. “Deploying this type of service across all of our locations not only connects VHA staff with the people and data they need, it makes them...

Boston Children's Hospital chief innovation officer John Brownstein

Voice tech: Tool to unburden physicians, improve patient experience

By HIMSS TV December 10, 2018

Telehealth staffing company Enzyme Health raises $1.7M

By Laura Lovett December 10, 2018

Austin, Texas-based Enzyme Health, a startup focused on staffing telehealth positions through a “gig economy” model, has landed $1.7 million in seed funding. The new money comes from Silverton Partners and private investors. What they do The company, which was founded in 2018, employs machine learning to match doctors and nurse practitioners to jobs that fit their skillset and desired schedule...

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POPS! Diabetes Care scores 510(k) for connected glucose monitoring system

By Laura Lovett December 10, 2018

Last week, the FDA granted a 510(k) clearance to POPS! Diabetes Care for its latest product, the POPS! one blood glucose monitoring system. The system is made up of a diabetes coaching app and a small glucose meter that attaches to the back of a user’s smartphone. Users can check their glucose levels on the meter and the results will automatically transfer to the app. Users can track their...

Telehealth helps with healthcare accessibility challenges in Saudi Arabia

By HIMSS TV December 7, 2018

20 takeaways from Health Affairs' telehealth issue

By MobiHealthNews December 7, 2018

The journal Health Affairs is widely regarded as a key forum for conversations about health policy. This month, Health Affairs published a special issue with 20 research papers, editorials and analyses around the broad topic of telehealth, including synchronous and asynchronous telemedicine as well as remote patient monitoring. Of note, the journal is not a cheerleader for the field; in fact, it'...