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This is a collection of the latest and most interesting developments in health IT and mobile health
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You're headed out the door and you realize you don't have your car keys. After a few minutes of rifling through pockets, checking the seat cushions and scanning the coffee table, you find the familiar key ring and off you go. Delete the scoop?
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Of the more than 13,600 consumer heath apps we analyzed in April, the vast majority fit snugly into one of our 12 main subcategories, which include cardio fitness, dieting, stress relief, chronic condition management, and medication adherence. Since we began tracking consumer health apps in early 2010 we have noticed a handful of emerging categories of apps that are only now becoming large enough that one might consider them a trend. Delete the scoop?
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Might mobile health technologies help alleviate health disparities between African-American and white men? That is the implication in a recent Huffington Post commentary. Delete the scoop?
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The Department of Defense (DoD) recently released their mobile device strategy that talks about how to enable the use of mobile devices in defense applications. Delete the scoop?
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Proteins found in nature, but that do not normally bind the flu, can be engineered to act as broad-spectrum antiviral agents against many flu virus strains, including H1N1 pandemic influenza. Delete the scoop?
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While medicine changes slowly with the adoption of new technology, younger physicians are taking more initiative in affecting positive changes in the arena. Delete the scoop?
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A computer science engineering team has developed an indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments. Delete the scoop?
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It would be refreshing to see EMR vendors embrace human factors and user-centered design principles. Delete the scoop?
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Like their healthy peers, children with disabilities may spend too much time in front of a video screen. Delete the scoop?
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Health IT built for foreign markets generally doesn’t translate well to the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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If you ask a doctor what she hates about electronic health records, you're liable to get an earful. But it turns out that docs have something to say when it comes to what they love about EHRs, too. Read more... Delete the scoop?
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A new program at the UCLA Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases is using an Apple iPad to help monitor patient care 24/7. Delete the scoop?
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In early 1996, I sat down at my computer looking for help. Delete the scoop?
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As the world of medicine becomes more connected it is important that we as individual physicians stay up to date and present in this realm. Delete the scoop?
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I’ve been working on including digital literacy in medical curriculum for long years now. It’s not the fault of medical professionals if they don’t know how to deal with e-patient... Delete the scoop?
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Gold teeth have been around for decades, and some have even adopted the look as a fashion statement. Soon, though, a blinged-out grill might be able to provide early warning for health conditions.
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Looking to aid medical professionals, the new Caracal Diagnosis app quickly and easily helps determine a disease or condition. Delete the scoop?
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Inexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip that can produce three-dimensional focusing of a stream of cells, according to researchers. Delete the scoop?
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The strategy used by Google to decide which pages are relevant for a search query can also be used to determine which proteins in a patient's cancer are relevant for the disease progression. Delete the scoop?
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Two people with tetraplegia were able to reach for and grasp objects in three-dimensional space with robotic arms that they controlled directly with brain activity. Delete the scoop?
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Seventy-one percent of the hospital's social media users on tools like its Facebook page, Twitter handle and blog already are using the technology to seek personal health information, according to a Read more... Delete the scoop?
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Clinical psychologist and senior researcher at Intel, Margaret Morris published a helpful paper this week that includes seven guidelines for motivating healthy behavior change with help from mobile devices and apps. Delete the scoop?
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Recent months have brought a flurry of industry metrics, market predictions, investment rounds, research announcements and more that have fueled the rising trend of wearable health devices. Delete the scoop?
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