Mobile Health

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One of the most interesting sessions I attended at ATA 2013 in Austin was moderated by Frost & Sullivan’s Daniel Ruppar. Daniel talked about the varying adoption and growth rates of telehealth categories such as remote patient monitoring, mHealth, and telemedicine; here are some takeaways from the panel.[read more]

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In fact, if the BBC is to be believed (and, really, when isn’t it?), the mis-reading of doctors’ abbreviations puts lives at risk. The UK’s Medical Defence pointed out that difficulties arise because some abbreviations have more than one meaning.[read more]

We’ve read the stories: From bedridden patients sending text messages to their health workers, to young people receiving HIV prevention messages via SMS, the mobile phone seems to have morphed from communications device to essential life-saver. But is the evidence there yet that mHealth is an effective and suitable health delivery intervention in the developing world?[read more]

This is a great video from a keynote by Professor Alain Labrique for the MOOC Mobile Health without Borders from Stanford. Professor Labrique is the Director of Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, and world expert and pioneer on mHealth. The video is an overview of mobile health innovations around the globe.[read more]

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How to find the fitness app that best suits your needs? We compared features, user ratings, and affordability to bring you the top five iPhone apps for tracking your health—because we think seeing your progress makes it easier to stick to your goals.[read more]

Health IT

AsseSSOnce provides users with one clinical desktop solution that layers over all existing applications. It is capable of working across desktop, laptop and tablet devices and creates a virtual desktop that allows session persistence from the office, to the patients’ bedsides, to the outpatients’ clinic.[read more]

What health boards need to do is to ‘mobilise’ each healthcare professional's entire job, using the latest generation of mobile solutions. These overcome issues of limited and clumsy web-based access to existing back-office systems by providing native smartphone and tablet apps that draw together the information and tools staff need to support them as they work.[read more]

Modern medicine has brought some amazing technological advances. But at the end of the day, the most powerful medical tool remains the old-fashioned one: expert clinicians with the knowledge to evaluate, monitor and care for patients. The problem: how do you get medical expertise to all of the places it’s needed? One growing answer: Telemedicine.[read more]

Jintronix began as an undergraduate project of Justin’s while he was at MIT. As is the case with many successful companies, the idea was inspired by a personal experience. Justin’s dad suffered a stroke and required rehabilitation, including physical therapy. As Justin helped his dad with his recovery, the idea of utilizing virtual technologies for physical therapy was born.[read more]

person-centered healthcare

These days, due to the growing presence of smartphones, tablets and other portable devices, patients are just as likely to walk out of their doctor’s office with instructions to download a medical mobile application to their phone as they are to walk out with paper prescriptions or instructions.[read more]

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You can take your own temperature or someone else’s right from the iPhone using the Kinsa Smart Thermometer. The device simply connects to the iPhone headphone jack. The app will display the patient’s temperature almost immediately on the screen.[read more]

HealthTap mobile app

Through a new resource called HealthTap, you can submit questions to a physician via mobile and receive vetted, peer-reviewed health information back. Through HealthTap Spectrum, now a part of all HealthTap’s apps on mobile devices and online, people can find doctor-created and rated content.[read more]