Seemingly countless numbers of fitness apps available through portable devices are becoming a huge hit to runners, cyclists, and athletes of all kinds. The goal for many of these apps on the market is to provide these athletes with a smarter workout. BSX Athletics,...
It is clear that the mHealth world helps to save lives and to cut patient/hospital costs. It is also clear that it’s growth in popularity provides opportunities to market services by healthcare providers, including doctors. So many healthcare providers are re-examining how their mHealth applications...
mHealth is the latest trend in today’s healthcare world, and is becoming increasingly popular with the ever changing and improving technology sector. However, in order to continue and keep popularizing this trend, policy makers need to recognize some issues. Investors in the mHealth market and...
Most teenagers today communicate through texting. No longer are they talking on the phone, but now texting, often in code: “k, omg, lol, etc.” Researchers in Providence, Rhode Island decided to connect a girl’s texting ability to a violence-prevention program for at-risk-teenage...
SxSw is the famous annual Texas festival home to the best film, music, and business trends in the past year, including today’s hot topic: digital health. This past Sunday, columnist, Anne Wojcicki, presented on her personal health background, providing in-depth info on her genetic company,...
FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler, recently announced some big changes that will positively impact the mHealth industry. A wireless task force, CONNECT2HEALTHFCC, has been created to “bring together the expertise of the FCC on the critical intersection of broadband, advanced technology and health.”...
Mental health is a growing concern in the United States of America, and particularly the gap between mental health illness and mental health treatment. However, with the new technology constituting Telemedicine, the mental health industry can benefit by saving thousands of dollars a year, especially...
mHealth, what exactly is it? You see this term frequently while surfing the internet, but you don’t really understand its meaning. You are now in luck, as the mystery is solved in an article posted by Margalit Gur-Arie. Its Mobile Health, available from over 50,000...
How about wearing a fashionable jewelry piece, that can also function as a medical device? The new trend in mobile health is just this from a company called, “My ID Square.” This is the first ever medical ID that can provide so many functions, including...
Today’s “Market Watch” in The Wall Street Journal, featured the popular trending topic, “Telemedicine.” In Jonnelle Marte’s, “The Doctor Will FaceTime You Now,” the author notes that the use of Telemedicine was growing, and can be expected to be even more popular as the number...
