Mobile Health

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PocketMD

PocketMD delivers one the healthcare industry's few mobile electronic health record (EHR) solutions. Read More »

PTSD Coach

Post Traumatics Stress Disorder (PTSD) Coach is a mobile app used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and others that can help you learn about and manage symptoms that commonly occur after PTSD trauma. Features include: Read More »

PWC 2012 Report: Emerging mHealth Paths for Growth

In this recent report by Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) entitled "Emerging mHealth Paths for Growth", the current state and potential of mobile health (mHealth) in developed and emerging markets is examined, along with the ongoing barriers to its adoption and the implications for companies in the Read More »

Red Cross Mobile Apps

The American Red Cross has developed a series of mobile apps and made them available at no cost to the public. They include apps providing useful information to citizens related to First Aid, Hurricanes, Eartquakes, and steps to take when faced with other natural disasters.

Sana

Sana is a standard-focused open source system that supports audio, images, location-based data, text, and video. The complete Sana system consists of at least one phone and a web-connected server. The server runs the medical records system of choice, such as OpenMRS, and the Sana Dispatch Server program. It is available under the BSD license. Read More »

ShareCare

Sharecare is one of the leading online health and wellness engagement platform providing millions of consumers with a personal, results-oriented experience by connecting them to the most qualified health resources and programs they need to improve their health. This free online web site was created by Jeff Arnold and Dr. Read More »

SMART Project

Subsitutable Medical Apps & Reusable Technologies (SMART) is a project funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program. Read More »

The mHealth Fans Daily

The mHealth Fans Daily is an online news site treating readers to continually updated news daily on mobile health (mHealth) activities and solutions.

U.N. Report: mHealth for Development

In 2009, the U.N. Foundation released a report entitled, "mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World." This report examines issues at the heart of the rapidly evolving intersection of mobile phones and healthcare. It helps the reader to understand mHealth’s scope and implementation across developing regions, the health needs to which mHealth can be applied, and the mHealth applications that promise the greatest impact on heath care initiatives. Read More »

USA.GOV Mobile Apps

The U.S. government has an online app store offering a wide range of free mobile apps that are in the public domain. These include mobile health apps that can be found at USA.Gov Mobile Apps

Who Controls Your Smartphone? And How to Leverage Open Source to Prevent it from Spying on You

There are many things about today’s world that warrant us asking that question. Do you or the mobile vendor control your smartphones? If you are a consumer, small or medium business (SMB) -- the answer is the vendor...What if you are a large enterprise or a government agency? The answer is still the vendor...How can the user regain control? Not all vendors have locked devices and walled gardens. Google’s line of Pixel hardware, for example, is a mid-market solution whose bootloader allows locking and re-locking. Pixels support two versions of Android. Google Mobile Services (GMS), where free services are tied to data monetization and a UX like Apple and Samsung devices. Secondly, Pixels can run Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) code that shares the same strengths as the GMS build, but the customer controls the code base and updates. There are several companies that are selling AOSP operating system builds for Pixel and other unlockable/lockable mobile phones and tablets...

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WHO mHealth Report - 2011

The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report in 2011 entitled "mHealth: New Horizons for Health Through Mobile Technologies." The reports was based the findings of the second global  survey on eHealth. To see the full report, go to the WHO web site.