Verizon jumping into Remote Health Monitoring with FDA clearance

In case you missed this last week (announced on Aug 8):

Verizon Gains FDA Clearance for Remote Health Monitoring Solution

Medical Device to Help Clinicians More Effectively Manage Patients’ Health From Their Home or When They are On the Go 

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for Converged Health Management, a cloud-based, remote patient-monitoring medical device.  This marks the first time Verizon has sought and gained FDA clearance for a healthcare solution.

Verizon’s new solution, which resides in the company’s HIPAA-ready cloud, provides clinicians with access to up-to-date patient data from connected biometric devices so they can more efficiently monitor and manage patients from their home, or when they are on the go.

Wireless mobile monitoring in pediatric asthma

Here's a great story of wireless mobile monitoring technology improving the management of pediatric asthma:

Qualcomm and Rady Children’s Hospital Collaborate on 3G-enabled Monitoring Kit to Help Prevent Serious Asthmatic Attacks in Children

Qualcomm Incorporated, through its Qualcomm Wireless Reach™ initiative, Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and Rady Children’s Hospital, the primary pediatric health provider serving San Diego, Imperial and southern Riverside counties, today announced their collaboration on a 3G-enabled kit for monitoring the activities of asthmatic children. The project features Asthmapolis and Zephyr technologies in order to help reduce costs and improve outcomes and seeks to determine whether asthma-related therapy can be personalized based on a patient’s physiology, reducing serious asthmatic attacks, emergency room visits, hospitalization and associated costs.

Asthma is one of the most common chronic disorders in childhood, affecting an estimated 7.1 million children under 18 years of age.[1] It is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children under 15. The annual direct health care cost of asthma is approximately $50.1 billion. Asthma is also one of the leading causes of school absenteeism.

ATA is where telemedicine meets mHealth

ATA is where traditional telemedicine meets mHealth. Telemedicine is being practiced around the world using mobile devices, so when should we call something telemedicine and when should we call something mHealth? The lines of distinction are getting very blurry.

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