It was officially announced Tuesday that a new World Congress forum is coming to Boston in March.

The event aims to pair eHealth and mHealth entrepreneurs with health care providers and payors in order to accelerate the adoption of promising new innovations and build upon a burgeoning federal government effort to invest in health innovation.

According to details made available in this morning’s press release, the World Congress eHealth Innovation Conference – New England will provide educational conference-format sessions with federal and state government health care leaders, plus match-making sessions between eHealth innovators with top New England health care providers and payors, including chief information and innovation officers.

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Physicians Interactive is burning up the mHealth news space with hype surrounding an enhanced version of its Skyscape RxDrugs mobile resource.

Now delivering “full formulary support,” the service’s enhancement enables prescribers to check health plan coverage of thousands of brand name and generic drugs for their patients, right at the point of care, Physicians Interactive says.

RxDrugs offers information on 5,000 health plans, covering all 50 states, and is updated monthly.

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According to an announcement this week at the mHealth Summit, George Washington University Center’s Dr. Richard Katz revealed that WellDoc’s mobile health program DiabetesManager reduced ER visits and hospital stays by 58 percent year over year.

If you’re not familiar with the platform, DiabetesManager is a software-based medical device cleared by the FDA and powered by a proprietary Automated Expert Analytics System.

The demonstration program, titled DC HealthConnect, was part of the Chronic Care Initiative sponsored by the DC Department of Health (DOH) and was conducted by the George Washington University Medical Center under the supervision of Dr. Katz.

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A new iPad app is being hailed as major advancement for mHealth, particularly with regard to how certain patient procedures can be tracked and monitored by doctors, medical staff, and the patient’s own family and loved ones.

The advanced technology, which was developed at the Invasive Cardiology Institute by Professor Ran Kornowski of Rabin Medical Center, takes all the pertinent information collected during a medical procedure and sends it directly to the iPad.

This new application, for example, allows a cardiologist to see the entire catheterization process on the iPad, both for utilization with the patients and the staff.

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Today we bring you the third installment of 3Seventy’s “MobileMinute” weekly video series, where Andy Kennedy takes on the topic of mobile health, also known as “mHealth.”

mHealth has become quite the buzzword recently, but many people still see it as an ambiguous concept that can span everything from doctors checking in on patients via their smartphones to advanced telemedicine and even robotic surgery solutions.

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Mobile applications are playing an increasingly larger role in the way doctors and hospitals care for patients.

The hospital at the center of today’s mHealth buzz is Washington Hospital Center, the facility behind “CodeHeart,” the highly secure mobile application solution developed and customized in collaboration with AT&T that provides a real-time video and audio stream that can be used in critical care situations, such as ambulances in transit.

According to an example presented in a press release issued by the medical facility, the solution can be used by hospital cardiologists to view, in real-time, a patient’s condition while simultaneously speaking with the patient’s first responder or the attending Emergency Department (ED) physician. Importantly, the solution also provides physicians the ability to view vital signs and test results–like electrocardiograms (ECG)–captured through the real-time video feed.

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Tuesday marked the launch of the first mobile network for healthcare – Tomorrow Networks.

According to a press release issued by the network’s founders, Physicians Interactive Holdings – a provider of health care information and mobile clinical decision tools for medical professionals – and Remedy Systems – a mobile app company focused on healthcare – have announced the creation and availability of their mHealth platform, Tomorrow Networks.

The platform lets developers market and distribute their applications to the growing population of medical professionals who are searching for well-built mobile applications as a tool to improve both the quality and efficiency of care. Through the platform, advertisers can also deliver targeted marketing messages.

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