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This is very nice, no more having the “hearing aide” visible and it is implemented behind the ear.  The clinical trial was conducted with 61 individuals, which by clinical trials numbers is small, but the results seem to speak for…

This is pretty scary and when you look at the fact that the town can still fund pro football and high salaries there.  The state has already been selling State Buildings to help bring in additional revenue.  In my very…

The Fallon Clinic in Central Massachusetts has invested heavily in electronic health records. Fallon’s deployment of Epic has been successful. However, cost-savings projections on transcription were not being met, because many physicians preferred to continue dictating their notes for transcription…

Healthcare is on everyone’s mind this week to see what we end up coming up with out of the “blender”.  That is just about what we have left to see what the outcome will be.  In New York, it is…

More and more pharmaceutical companies are launching Facebook pages that promote their products. The latest is Allergan, which launched a celebrity Facebook campaign for Juvederm, a dermal filler used for “long-lasting correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds.”…

In comments to the FDA, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) stated “Flexibility in regulatory approach is crucial in the evolving digital world.” The comment was part of an 8-page document submitted to Docket No. FDA‐2009‐N‐0441 regarding Promotion of FDA‐Regulated Medical Products…

One federal agency suggesting ways that another federal agency might better do its job is commonplace in Washington D.C., but it’s of particular interest for this editor when the topic is mobile health. Within the FCC’s 360 page National Broadband…

Sprint’s wireless health efforts include clinician offerings, patient tools, ambulatory care connectivity and home health solutions, Sprint’s VP of Industry Solutions Tim Donahue told MobiHealthNews in a recent interview.
“For telecoms, the focus used to be all about the healthcare…

In the fall of 2003, during an introductory psychology class at Brown University, a group of students learned that when an alarm clocks wakes you up during the wrong sleep stage, you wake up feeling groggy. If the alarm clock…

This week MobiHealthNews had a chance to discuss wireless health trends and activities at the West Wireless Health Institute with the Institute’s new CEO Don Casey. We asked Casey to list five things the WWHI will accomplish in 2010, to…