mobile health (mHealth)

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Microsoft Taps Into mHealth

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | August 21, 2014

With nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes -- and racking up $245 billion in costs each year -- many stakeholders have been looking for innovative ways to help those individuals better keep tabs on their condition. With its new mobile health project, Microsoft is the latest company to offer a diabetes management platform...

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Mobile Health Apps Have Role In Ebola Crisis

Neil Polwart | Information Week Healthcare | August 25, 2014

Mobile health apps could play a bigger role than they have to date in speeding the response to a global health crisis...

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Mobile Health Apps Have Role In Ebola Crisis

Neil Polwart | Information Week Healthcare | August 25, 2014

Mobile health apps could play a bigger role than they have to date in speeding the response to a global health crisis...

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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 Report released with key 2017 Projections

Jonah Comstock | Mobile Health News | March 14, 2013

Mobile industry analysts Research2Guidance have come out with a new report on health apps, predicting that in 2017, worldwide mobile health market revenue will total $26 billion. Read More »

Mobile Health Solutions - mHealth

There are already over 4 billion mobile devices in use around the world — 64 percent of them are in the hands of people living in emerging market economies — and the numbers are only growing. 
In the coming decade, mHealth will dramatically change the daily clinical practices of many health care providers and the lives of their patients.

Nationwide Launch of Mobile Health Program in Rural India Signals New Era of mHealth for Emerging Economies

Press Release | Grameen Foundation | January 15, 2016

Today, the Government of India launched a nationwide mobile health program designed to train community health workers and to directly reach millions of women within three years. The program is powered by MOTECH, a robust yet simple-to-use mobile health (mHealth) technology developed by Grameen Foundation, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Until now, mHealth applications have been relatively small and siloed," said John Tippett, Global Director of Mobile Health at Grameen Foundation. "By allowing systems to work together and serve huge numbers of people, MOTECH opens a new era for tackling global health problems at scale through mobile technology."

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New Goals In National HIT Roadmap

Mike Miliard | Government Health IT | December 8, 2014

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has outlined its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, 2015-2020, updating the goals of an initiative most recently released in 2011...

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Nigeria: Maternal, Infant Mortality - Mobile Midwife, Dial-A-Doctor To The Rescue

Chioma Obinna | All Africa | September 30, 2014

As part of efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates in Nigeria, communications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has unveiled innovative mobile health services dubbed Mobile Midwife and Dial-a-Doctor...

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Nurse CIOs Are Taking On Bigger Roles In Healthcare

Bob Herman | Modern Healthcare | November 1, 2014

...[M]any hospitals and health systems have hired nurse informaticists.  And technology vendors are engaging nurses with IT backgrounds to help them execute successful EHR installations, knowing that nurses are key users of patient data...

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Open Eyes And Raspberry Pis

Rebecca Todd | E-Health Insider | March 26, 2014

An open source electronic patient record system developed at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be deployed across 40 sites in developing Commonwealth countries.  Part of the project involves developing the EPR to run on the low cost Raspberry Pi computers and mobile devices.

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PCHA Statement From CES: Personal Connected Health Alliance Encourages Fitbit To Close The Data Loop For Consumers With PCHA's Continua Technical Standards For Secure, User-Friendly Data Sharing

Press Release | Continua | January 7, 2015

Consumers And Health Providers Demanding Connectivity Of Wearable Fitness Trackers...

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Personal Connected Health Alliance To Bring mHealth Worldwide

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | April 23, 2014

The Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), a collaboration between HIMSS, Continua Health Alliance, and the mHealth Summit, officially launched this week with a mission to bring wearable health tracking devices, mHealth apps, mobile sensors, and other personal technologies to as wide an audience of patient-consumers as possible.  The Alliance hopes to promote the adoption, standardization, and necessary regulation of mHealth technologies, while empowering individuals to take charge of their own health.

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Physician adds Smartphone to Medical Tools to gather patient info

Kristen Brown | MedCity News | September 19, 2013

...[Dr. Paul] Abramson is on the vanguard of the emerging digital revolution in medicine. Beyond consumer-driven apps that count calories or encourage exercise, mobile technology is beginning to significantly change how doctors practice medicine. Read More »

Population Health, Analytics, mHealth Vendors Raise $1.8B In Q2

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 22, 2014

Health IT vendors have been raking in the dough at record levels, Mercom Capital says in a new report, charting the booming industry’s first $1 billion quarter in venture capital (VC) funding and smashing totals from the entirety of 2013...

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