Tag Archives: smartphone apps

mHealth Summit 2011:Views from an Attendee

Posted on December 8, 2024 by

This being my first mHealth Summit, I did not know what to expect. My hopes were to firstly meet personally the many colleagues I’ve met via social media and put a face to many rewarding conversations. My expectation … Continue reading →

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How mHealth Will Succeed: Recommendations From the WHO

Posted on November 21, 2024 by

The strongly emerging sector of healthcare is quickly becoming a topic of national and international organizations. It is being examined from business, regulatory, and healthcare stakeholders. As with all new types of technologies that are being considered by payers, patients, … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Hospitals Need mHealth

Posted on November 10, 2024 by

Mobile health technologies are most utilized now in the outpatient setting either for health and wellness by consumers or by providers primarily for the purpose of informational resources. The reasons for this are multiple, primarily related to marketing business models … Continue reading →

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mHealth and Child Abuse

Posted on November 9, 2024 by

There has not been a more horrific scandal in the world of sports that I can remember than the child abuse scandal (the mainstream media calls it a sex abuse scandal) surrounding The Pennsylvania State University. Let it be said … Continue reading →

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mHealth and HealthcareIT: Who’s Your Healthcare Data’s Daddy?

Posted on November 2, 2024 by

Healtcare IT and wireless health technologies will be producing in the coming years an almost immeasurable amount of data derived from electronic health records (EHRs), smart phones, body sensors, and other ‘connected’ devices. The ownership of this type of data … Continue reading →

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mHealth and HIPAA

Posted on October 28, 2024 by

Wireless health technologies are proliferating into various transmission modalities and spectrum of wellness and healthcare. Safety and privacy of data is of paramount importance to providers and patients. HIPAA laws apply to some types of mHealth products and the implications … Continue reading →

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Caregiver: The Key to mHealth

Posted on October 24, 2024 by

The caregiver is an individual who attends to the needs of a child or dependent adult. There is an estimated ten million caregivers over the age of 50 caring for their parents in the USA. Caregivers attend to people who are … Continue reading →

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Business Models of mHealth Vary with Technology

Posted on October 21, 2024 by

Wireless health technologies vary from apps geared towards wellness and fitness, to management of chronic diseases, patient monitoring, and telemedicine. One of the barriers to widespread adoption of mHealth is the establishment of a business model: who will … Continue reading →

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mHealth Technology and the Cardiac Patient

Posted on October 17, 2024 by

Vision is everything when one is developing a new product, starting a new company, or devising policy. The engineer, business person, health policy advisor, academician, patient, consumer advocate, or healthcare provider interested in mHealth have their own idea of what … Continue reading →

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Why mHealth Apps Shouldn’t be Called Apps

Posted on September 26, 2024 by

The estimated number of US smartphone users grew from 42 million to 61 million from 2009 to 2010. The number of phone apps grew at a significantly higher rate. Some of the key findings from “The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Users,” … Continue reading →

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