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Ensuring uniformly high-quality telehealth requires providers, technology vendors and ethicists to address and answer some big questions about the efficacy of remote vs. in-person care.  

The system is building out its suite of telehealth care services with a native iOS app and website so patients can speak with doctors from home. 

Duke became one of the first hospitals to integrate with Apple HealthKit via Epic, and to use the platform to incorporate patient-generated health data into its EHR.

A partnership with caregivers helps the North Carolina health system advance strategy.

Innovations created at the New Jersey hospital include a mobile app that allows patients to self-register and even provides driving directions.

FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffery Shuren, MD, said the violations pointed to a larger problem among hospitals nationwide in reporting patient harm tied to medical devices.

Supply of mobile health apps greatly exceeds the demand for them, based on research2guidance’s report on the mHealth App Developer Economics 2016, analyzing the status and trends of the mobile health apps market.

Sutter is using Validic’s digital health platform to monitor patients with Type 2 diabetes in one pilot. In the other, Amita Health is implementing TapCloud’s technology for behavioral health, stroke, orthopedic surgery and other medical conditions. 

Healthcare IT News asks HIT professionals to take part in an important new survey that will study the place of EHRs, cybersecurity, population health, Big Data and more in the year ahead.  

The accidental health app bested other tools in engaging patients who stand to benefit most. But whether Pokémon Go or future apps and devices specifically designed to keep people moving will succeed depends on the very big question of design.