MobiHealth News February 1, 2019
As MobiHealthNews turns 10, we’ve chosen a story from each year to tell a small piece of our story, and the story of digital health.
In 2009, the iPhone was a year and a half old. The iPad was just a rumor. The Apple Watch wasn’t even that. There was no such thing as a Fitbit. CMS didn’t have an innovation center and the FDA didn’t have any guidelines about apps. Telemedicine had been around for a while, but it was something that involved bulky carts. No one thought that Apple, Google, or Amazon would ever be thought of as a healthcare company.
That was the world that MobiHealthNews launched into on January 31, 2009. Yesterday, the...