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Through a partnership with Healthsense, the payer is deploying in-home health sensors and remote monitoring with an eye on reducing readmissions.

Making sense of adoption statistics to understand how mHealth empowers patients, the FDA's regulatory role, and what doctors really think about mobile health apps.

If pharmaceutical companies begin offering prescription mobile apps, as some are predicting, it could upend the industry and ultimately foster more collaborative treatment decisions between patients and doctors.

Mobile health applications bring an entirely new set of challenges. Consider this advice for making them both secure and usable.

Likely happenings in the next 12 months will have major implications for mHealth, BYOD, cloud computing and, of course, HIPAA.

Karen DeSalvo, MD, will take over national coordinator for health information technology, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced this morning. DeSalvo is the health commissioner for the City of New Orleans and is experienced in healthcare and Health IT.