remote patient monitoring

Report: 4.7 million used connected care in Europe last year
By Brian Dolan | 08:35 am | October 27, 2014
A state-side example of video comms with MDs: Verizon Wireless Virtual Visits Around 4.
Illinois medical group to use Apple Watch in disease management pilot
By Aditi Pai | 10:10 am | October 22, 2014
Springfield, Illinois-based Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) has launched a pilot program to examine how nurses and physicians can integrate the Apple Watch into the medical group's Advanced Medical Home program.
Home-based connected health to overtake hospital-based by 2019
By Aditi Pai | 10:06 am | October 14, 2014
Sotera Wireless's ViSi Mobile monitor.
Philips teams with Dutch hospital for COPD prototype
By Jonah Comstock | 08:52 am | October 14, 2014
Philips has unveiled a prototype system, consisting of a wearable sensor and connected software suite, to monitor patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
Wireless devices are an increasingly substantial part of the $30B patient monitor market
By Aditi Pai | 09:51 am | October 07, 2014
Sotera Wireless's ViSi Mobile monitor.
Cigna, Intel-GE expand RPM trial for Medicare heart patients
By Aditi Pai | 06:40 am | October 06, 2014
Cigna-Healthspring, a subsidiary of Newtown, Massachusetts-based payor Cigna that specializes in Medicare plans, is expanding its congestive heart failure remote patient monitoring program in partnership with Intel-GE Care Innovations.
Telemonitoring reduces readmissions 44 percent in 4-year, 500-patient study
By Jonah Comstock | 08:17 am | October 03, 2014
A connected weight scale from AMC Health.
Turkish mobile operator reports efficacy data for wireless-enabled glucose meter device
By Brian Dolan | 09:59 am | September 25, 2014
Turkish mobile operator Turkcell teamed up with Istanbul University researchers to study how its wireless-enabled diabetes device, Turkcell Healthmeter, would impact patient outcomes.
ABI: 100M remote patient monitoring wearables to ship in next 5 years
By Aditi Pai | 09:09 am | September 04, 2014
iHealth blood pressure cuff Over the next five years, ABI Research expects 100 million wearable remote patient monitoring devices to ship.
Healthsense raises $10M for remote patient monitoring products
By Aditi Pai | 07:56 am | August 21, 2014
Medical device maker HealthSense raised $10 million in equity, debt, and securities in a round led by Mansa Capital with additional investment from existing investors Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Radius Ventures.