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Malaria Detection Device To Be Field Tested A Year Ahead Of Schedule
A European Union-funded mHealth project to develop a mobile device using nanotechnology to rapidly detect malaria infection and drug resistance will be ready for field testing in 2013--a year ahead of schedule--according to a university announcement. Read More »
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Mechael Explains Where mHealth Will Be Most Disruptive
Some fear mobile healthcare could replace the need for doctors, in some cases, but according to Patricia Mechael, executive director of the mHealth Alliance, mHealth will only help doctors make better decisions. It won't replace them. Read More »
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mHealth And The Closing Window For Patient Engagement
80% of physicians are using mobile technology to provide patient care. Meanwhile, more than 25% of commercially-insured patients use mobile apps to manage their health. mHealth adoption is also being fueled by the 30 million wearable health devices that were shipped last year, a 37% increase over 2011. [...] Read More »
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mHealth Apps are Just the Beginning of the Disruption in Healthcare from Open Health Data
Two years ago, the potential of government making health information as useful as weather data felt like an abstraction. Healthcare data could give citizens the same "blue dot" for navigating health and illness akin to the one GPS data fuels on the glowing map of geolocated mobile devices that are in more and more hands...
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mHealth Group Urges FDA To Publish Final Guidance
Some mHealth advocates are getting impatient with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA released its preliminary guidelines for the regulation of mobile medical apps in late 2011, and since then the mHealth world has been awaiting the government agency's final document. Read More »
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mHealth May Hold The Key To Stage 3 Adoption
At least two health phenomena are common to all humanity: the experience of health (or illness) and the continual need for health vigilance. In spite of these constants, healthcare has historically been “delivered” in a series of isolated events rather than integrated into daily life and shared between patients and doctors. Read More »
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mHealth Regulatory Coalition Urges FDA To Release Final Apps Guidance
The mHealth Regulatory Coalition (MRC) on June 21 sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging HHS, through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to publish the final guidance on mobile medical applications (MMA) "as soon as reasonably possible." Read More »
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mHealth Tools Projected To Save $500 Billion In Productivity By 2021
The constantly changing and quickly evolving mobile health industry is often considered the Wild West of healthcare, with new technologies and innovative services shifting the practice of preventative medicine from the doctor’s office to the patient’s pocket. Read More »
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mHealth Tools Will Monitor Millions, Reduce Costs
A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016, according to a new report on the mHealth sector from Juniper Research.
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mHealth, Data Analytics See $4.7 Billion In 2014 VC Funding
The past year saw a $4.7 billion investment in healthcare IT companies, according to a report from Mercom Capital Group, as venture capital firms seek to promote lucrative technologies in the practice-facing and consumer-facing markets. Data analytics, population health management, and clinical decision support products were among the most likely to grab investor attention in 2014, while mHealth, telehealth, and wearable technologies saw $2.3 billion in major deals...
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mHealth’s Missing Link: Technology That Helps the Caregiver
A recent study finds that more than 70 percent of family and friends providing care to a loved one at home are interested in using mHealth technology to support their caregiving tasks, and roughly 60 percent would use whatever’s available now. But only 7 percent are actually using it. This disconnect is often seen as a missing link in developing mHealth for the senior population – and a missed opportunity to reach what’s expected to be 45 million Americans caring for some 117 million people by 2020...
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MIT Sets Sights On Open-Source mHealth During Innovation Event
The MIT Media Lab’s eleven-day Health and Wellness Hackathon is not your average gadget exhibition. Bringing together eighty participants from around the world, the annual event, which was held in January, is designed to inspire new ways to fix an age old problem: how to use technology to prevent illnesses before they start. Read More »
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Mobile Apps to Support Community Health Workers: Adapting Trusted Content to New Mediums
[In] the emerging field of mHealth—the use of mobile phones to support health—the focus has veered significantly toward data collection. At Hesperian Health Guides (publisher of Where There Is No Doctor), we’ve been part of a conversation to expand that focus and include using mobile phones to deliver health information to community health workers and the people they support. Read More »
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Mobile Health (mHealth) - Establishing An OSEHRA mHealth Working Group
I would like to propose that an OSEHRA mHealth Working Group be established as soon as possible. It may already be in the works, for all I know. Read More »
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Mobile Health IT Solutions for Healthier Aging
A report entitled "Using Mobile Technologies for Healthier Aging" was released in March 2013. The report, written by Ada Kwan, was co-sponsored by the mHealth Alliance , United Nations Foundation, and Pfizer. The stated objective of this report was to provide momentum and spur further conversation on ways mobile technologies can help people age better and remain in reasonably good health. Read More »
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