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mHealth Regulatory Coalition Urges FDA To Release Final Apps Guidance

Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobileHealthcare | June 21, 2013

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 »

mHealth, Health IT Investment Break Records In Q1 Of 2014

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | April 8, 2014

Investment in mobile health and other health IT technologies has been off the charts during the first quarter of 2014, says a new report by Rock Health, continuing the meteoric rise of mobile health technologies funded by more traditional venture capitalists and newfangled crowd-funding campaigns.  Technology companies have already scooped up more than $700 million since January of 2014, representing an 87% year-over-year growth versus the same quarter last year.

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Microsoft: Look, We Play Well With Others!

Owen Thomas | ReadWrite | June 27, 2013

Apple! Twitter! Box! The software giant is visibly ditching its standoffish approach. Read More »

MIT Media Lab Spinoff EyeNetra Raises $2M

Aditi Pai | MobiHealthNews | July 1, 2013

Somerville, Massachusetts-based EyeNetra, which has developed a mobile-enabled eye diagnostic tool raised $2 million in funding last week, according to an SEC filing. EyeNetra hopes to serve the 2.4 billion people worldwide that don’t have glasses, but need them. Read More »

Mobile Devices, Cloud Computing: What Healthcare CIOs Fear Most

Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobileHealthcare | July 8, 2013

Although mobile apps that share files through the cloud are gaining in popularity in the consumer market, these apps can be unsafe in a clinical setting according to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute. Read More »

Mobile Health (mHealth) - Establishing An OSEHRA mHealth Working Group

Peter Groen | OSEHRA | October 24, 2012

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 »

Mobile Health Around The Globe: Magpi Data Collection System Helps Thousands Worldwide

Joan Justice | HealthWorks Collective | June 10, 2013

DataDyne boasts that their mobile data system, Magpi, is the fastest, easiest least expensive way to collect data on mobile devices. Read More »

Mobile Health: Human API Helps Developers Enter The New Growth Market

Mark Boyd | ProgrammableWeb | July 16, 2013

The release of the Human API may help untangle the complex web of big data, insurance standards, health care sensors, and disease causal pathways that currently prevents many developers from designing health applications. The Human API offers a platform to make human health data available through a RESTful interface, using OAuth 2.0 authentication. Read More »

Mozilla Release New Video Detailing New Firefox OS Mobile App Distribution

Julian Horsey | Geeky Gadgets | July 19, 2013

Mozilla has released a new video for Firefox OS developers detailing the way that the new Firefox OS will use search to allow users to find Firefox OS applications and redirect them to your website, rather than use the traditional app store approach. Read More »

Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile

Frederic Lardinois | TechCrunch | August 25, 2013

Mozilla was late to mobile and now it’s trying to catch up. For a while now, the nonprofit has been releasing mobile versions of its Firefox browser for Android, but its most ambitious project to date is its Firefox OS mobile operating system for smartphones. Read More »

Nafundi, Taskforce, And Grameen Showcase ODK At Google I/O

Yaw Anokwa | Open Data Kit | June 14, 2013

Google I/O is an annual developer conference that showcases the latest from Google's product teams and partners. One of the exciting parts of I/O is the Developer Sandbox, where apps based on technologies and products are shown to attendees. Read More »

Networked Intelligent Bicycles Are Transforming Urban Riding

Bradley Berman | ReadWrite | October 31, 2013

The world’s first open source piece of hardware was the bicycle, according to the Open Source Hardware Association. To be more precise, it was the draisine, introduced as a two-wheeled human-propelled walking machine in 1817. Read More »

New Book from MIT Professor Helps Companies Reshape Supply Chain Strategy Beyond COVID-19

Press Release | MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics | October 2, 2020

In his new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19, published today, MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi maps how companies grappled with the chaos of the Covid-19 pandemic and how they can survive and thrive as the crisis subsides. Sheffi pays particular attention to supply chain's role in helping companies manage and recover from the pandemic. Supply chains worldwide play a crucial role in sourcing, making, and delivering essential products to the world's 7.8 billion people at a price they can afford.

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New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »

New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »