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Canadian Hospital Launches Mobile Health App For Veterans With OSIs

Fred Pennic | HIT Consultant | June 19, 2013

The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (The Royal) has launched a new mobile health application that will assist Veterans, personnel of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), and members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with operational stress injuries (OSIs). Read More »

Celebrating 15 Years Of A Better Web

Mitchell Baker | Lizard Wrangler | April 2, 2013

On March 31, Mozilla turned 15 years old. In these years, something radical has happened: the Web has become an everyday presence in the lives of billions of people. It’s made their lives better. Mozilla was a big part of this. Read More »

Cell Counter; NHS+HackDay; OpenSource+OpenEHR

Tony Shannon | Frectal.com | September 30, 2012

Last weekend the NHS HackDay movement came to Liverpool, where a group of “Geeks who love the NHS” came together for the second event of its type. Read More »

Chris Haddad on API Branding for Improved Community Reach

Chris Haddad | OStatic | July 12, 2013

In this special guest post for OStatic, Chris discusses the value of API branding and open APIs for improving community reach... Read More »

College Students Tackle PTSD at First DC Hackathon

More than 50 college students from across the world gathered this previous weekend at HackDC 2015, the first Hackathon dedicated to crowdsourcing innovative ways to address the serious problem of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by creating mobile applications and solutions. The event, which started on Friday, went through Sunday afternoon. Held at the Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center in the Annandale Campus of the Northern Virginia Community Colleges (NVCC), HackDC 2015 provided the participants with access to food, sleeping facilities, and showers so that they could work straight through the weekend. 

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Congressional Hearing To Focus On Entrepreneurs, Mobile Medical Apps

Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobileHealthcare | June 21, 2013

The House Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology will hold a hearing on June 27 to highlight entrepreneurs creating healthcare apps, according to the subcommittee's announcement. Read More »

Consumer Health & Wellness wireless sensors to be worth $16 Billion in 2017

Jonah Comstock | MobiHealthNews | March 21, 2013

According to a new report by research firm ON World, 18.2 million health and wellness wireless sensor networks (WSNs) will be shipped worldwide in 2017, generating $16.3B in annual revenue. Read More »

Continua and Borderless Healthcare Group Form Strategic Partnership, Launch The Healthcare Technology Innovation Center In Shanghai

Press Release | Borderless Healthcare Group, Inc., Continua | September 22, 2014

Continua and Borderless Healthcare Group (BHG), a global knowledge leader in healthcare technology, media and telecommunications,  have formed a strategic partnership to support healthcare innovation in China and promote international standards for personal connected health technologies...

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Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?

Joseph C. Kvedar | Healthcare IT News | August 21, 2013

The hype over mobile health is deafening on most days and downright annoying on some.  So it is with some reluctance that I admit that mobile has the potential to be a game-changer in health.  I’ve professed enthusiasm before, but that was largely around the use of wireless sensors to measure physiologic signals and SMS text as a way to deliver messages to patients and consumers... Read More »

Deep Dive: Software Patents And The Rise Of Patent Trolls

Adi Kamdar and Daniel Nazer | Electronic Frontier Foundation | February 28, 2013

Beloved podcasts like the Adam Carolla Show and HowStuffWorks are under attack. They and other podcasts are getting sued for, well, podcasting. And they're not the only victims—developers are being targeted for building mobile apps, and offices around the nation are being attacked for using ordinary networked scanners. Read More »

Department Of Veterans Affairs Issues 1,000 iPads To Aid Veterans And Caregivers

Michael Singer | TabTimes | July 29, 2013

A program to bring more than 1,000 iPads to the families of seriously injured Post-9/11 veterans is expected to provide improved health services to service men and women dealing with special conditions. Read More »

Developer Interest In Windows Phone 8 Is Still Dismal

Dan Rowinski | ReadWrite | June 27, 2013

What developers want to build apps for a mobile operating system that has minimal consumer adoption and is struggling to maintain or advance its market share month after month? Not that bloody many, apparently. Read More »

Digital Innovations Help Deliver News Under Repressive Regimes

Charles S. Clark | Nextgov | June 14, 2013

An all-star team from the Broadcasting Board of Governors hauled samples of the agency’s cutting-edge digital equipment to the Capitol Visitors Center on Thursday for a show-and-tell called “Innovating at the Speed of News.” Read More »

DOD To Develop Online Health Assessment App For Members

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | November 14, 2012

The Defense Department wants to develop a dynamic health and wellness assessment application that is accessible online to all service members to encourage behaviors that help them stay healthy, avoid chronic conditions, and result in lowering care costs. Read More »

DreamFactory Connects Any Mobile App To MongoDB In Minutes

Press Release | DreamFactory Software | October 16, 2013

The DreamFactory Services Platform, the industry's most efficient way to add backend services to any mobile app, now brings big data functionality to mobile devices via DreamFactory's comprehensive REST API. [...] Read More »