mHealth News December 19, 2014
This was the year that the world’s biggest and most powerful IT companies ratcheted up their focus on healthcare — all with a particular emphasis on mobile technologies.
It’s only natural, then, that phrases like “game changer,” “paradigm shift” and “market disruption” were bandied about frequently. Perhaps even a little overzealously, given that the likes of Apple, IBM, Google and Microsoft are really just starting to develop products and it’s too early to tell exactly how impactful they may or may not ultimately be.
But it wasn’t just the big names that drew mHealth News readers’ interest. Among the more practicable advancements for clinicians are mobile apps for evidence-based medicine, new telehealth payment codes from the Centers for Medicare and...