Digital Health Briefs: Post-Surgery Remote Monitoring; NHS England Technology Funding; Qualcomm Product

Study finds remote monitoring can assess patient mobility and correlates with length of stay. NHS England boosts technology fund by 250 million pounds. Qualcomm introduces 2net Mobile. More digital news.

Mobility post-surgery, assessed by a common fitness monitor, correlates with patients’ length of stay and subsequent discharge status, a study in the September 2013 Annals of Thoracic Surgery shows.

The study, led by anesthesiologist David Cook at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., argues, “Although it is obvious that...

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