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Many patients with chronic diseases are discharged from a hospital without a clear vision of how to execute their day-to-day treatments. These lifestyle adjustments can be hard to adjust to.
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Many patients with chronic diseases are discharged from a hospital without a clear vision of how to execute their day-to-day treatments. This is example of one interesting device. Wellframe provides a task alert system for patients through their device of choice to take their medicine and perform light exercises. It also connects patients with medical personnel and educational videos when needed.
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The obsession with mobile apps is growing fast in medicine. And there are a lot of reasons for us to be excited about mobile health–it has tremendous potential to bring value to healthcare delivery and medical research. Via Sam Stern
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The key insight is important. “The distinctive approach offers some major explanations as to why there is a huge discrepancy within mobile health–without clinical insights from providers, medical and health apps can experience big drawbacks and are likely to fail” To develop an mobile app you need to have healthcare input before the design not after”
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One of the few types of mobile content that monetizes reliably and drives premium ad rates. ;
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One of key trends that developers need to consider is massive shift in mobile video and how to take advantage in the health care ecosystem
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There was a time not too long ago that doctors lived in an analog world. They only answered questions from patients that came into their office. They prescribed medicine in person. They always did some sort of physical exam before making judgments. Via Sam Stern
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Patients listen to and value advise from their doctors.The HealthTap app emerged from beta a year and 10 months ago. Since then, it has grown to a network of 35,000 physicians waiting at the ready to answer all manner of questions from millions of anxious users, a great service
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There's been an explosion of health related apps in recent years. We've selected some of our favourites that you can show to your patients, or use yourself.
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Just an interesting listing of some great apps. These are foscued on health and fitness rather than clinical. Most of health apps, over 80% are in this category on app stores are heatlh and fitness
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#Health #app overload can be addressed via 'gateway' apps - Fierce #Mobile #Healthcare: http://t.co/JtgXRnbDp5
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The article makes the claim that "medical professionals and citizens are currently being overloaded with health apps." As a result, they "have difficulty with finding the right app, and information and features are fragmented over too many apps, thereby limiting their usefulness. The solution is to have app gate keepers
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Five disruptive telehealth startups to watch highlighting how telehealth is changing the face of healthcare delivery and the innovative startups behind it.
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April 21, 2013 10:02 PM
mhealth starts are providing valuable services to patients and reducing costs. These 5 starts ups are great examples of break- through technologies. These start ups will impact all healthcare organizations
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115 Mind Blowing mHealth and Telehealth Statistics and Trends as the third installment of our 4 part Mind Blowing HIT Stats and Facts series.
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Joseph Kvedar, MD, Founder & Executive Director, Center for Connected Health talks how mobile health technology tools can be used in a transformative way.
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April 21, 2013 8:24 PM
The central issue about mhealth is that is not just about mobile devices. It is about developing programs and innovative strategies from the hospital to the day to day lives of patients. So cell phones network devices and remote health monitoring tools are all part of the mhealth ecosystem
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A panel of experts at the Hospital Cloud Forum in New York noted progress in developing health and fitness tracking devices, yet the industry requires links to clinical care.
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April 19, 2013 12:35 AM
Mobile devices connected to the cloud will be important in linking patient data to doctors workflow. In general, because of clinical aspects these devices will require FDA approval.
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Demo Mobile kicked off this morning with presentations from four mobile health startups. Each of these companies is applying mobile technology to the medical field to give people more control over ...
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April 18, 2013 6:01 AM
There are thousands of health mobile apps. Increasing these apps are being applied to features that can make a difference in people’s lives applying mobile technology to give people more control over their bodies. Outline are 4 interesting mobile app that solve patient/doctor problems.
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April 17, 2013 7:15 AM
Self tracking is an extremely important element of communication between a doctor and patient. Here 70% of doctors report their patients are embracing self tracking. Technology now allows this communication to now be done on line.
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The mobile health (mHealth) industry is contributing to a new delivery model focused on care that is patient-centered and value-based.
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The mobile health (mHealth) industry is contributing to a new delivery model focused on care that is patient-centered and value-based. When a patient downloads a medical application, for example, and uses that app to better manage a disease, it can lead to better health. This means fewer office visits, reduced care costs and a lower burden on the healthcare system.
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Social media in healthcare is primarily about reach, and what social media can provide healthcare stakeholders on the whole. Via ET Russell
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When you develop an app you need to understand what people want and where the health care system is going. In the article the point is that the action is with social media. Listed are what patients and healthcare provider are doing. A key take away “With so much competition for the attention of healthcare associates, what is the best way to get your message heard? We have chosen to go with short, sweet and humorous videos for internal education when possible.
ET Russell's curator insight,
April 27, 2013 7:21 AM
How social media can be utpatient to improve health outcomes. 
kc odonkor's curator insight,
April 27, 2013 8:19 AM
this the way of the future. the future is here...
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Did you know there are over 6 billion cell phones on the planet? More cell phone users are added every day. Who cares right? I’m a tech girl. (RT @LoriThayer: 87% of the world's population uses mobile phones.
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Why do mobile health apps? Because you have
Unparalleled market saturation Unparalleled engagement levels, Unparalleled audiences, Unparalleled intimate access to consumers throughout their ENTIRE day, Unparalleled connectivity
With smartphones today
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Creating mhealth solutions is challenging, but what are some startups mistakes to avoid? Here are 6 mhealth startup blunders that will kill your business. Via Sam Stern
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Good checklist for health app developments.
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Worldreader Mobile has launched, giving feature phone users in the developing world with a 2G connection to read 1,400 books for free. "Feature phones are omnipresent in the developing world.
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Great example of using the technology of the phone to deliver information to the masses via ebooks. Interesting of 95% of healthgivers give patients printed information on a disease. Not deliver it by phone
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The revenue generated with sensors connecting to an app will reach $5.6 Billion by 2017. The market will grow by 69% (CAGR) over the next 5 years.
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mHealth app based business models, which rely on sensors sales will play a major role in the mHealth market to reach USD $ 5.6 billion from USD $ 400 today
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Dr. Data is IN... The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other nation: around $9,000 per person in 2012. Can data scientists help?
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April 21, 2013 10:18 PM
Big data in patient record, predictive medicine, wellness maintenance, just in time medicine will create a possible savings of 10% of the entire US medical bill. Even though the focus of this article is on big data the areas of impact will all be driven by mobile devices
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3 Healthcare IT trends that shares Thomas Edison's vision for healthcare in 2013 and beyond in response to the 2012 National Healthcare IT Week
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April 21, 2013 9:43 PM
A Brilliant statement by Thomas Edison which is the future of healthcare:
“THE DOCTOR OF THE FUTURE WILL GIVE NO MEDICINE, BUT WILL INTEREST HIS PATIENTS IN THE CARE OF THE HUMAN FRAME, IN DIET, AND IN THE CAUSE AND PREVENTION OF DISEASES.”
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Year end recap of the 20 most Insightful healthcare technology Infographics of 2012 highlighting the growing utilizations of infographics in healthcare
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Medical app integration into the medicine of the future - mobile devices such as smartphones will be integral parts of medical practice (MAJ Recap: How Medical Apps Will Change The Face Of Modern Medicine - While it is true that 75%...
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April 19, 2013 7:20 AM
95% Doctors are already tapped into the medical app market
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Frost and Sullivan analysis on remote patient monitoring market - via @WSJ http://t.co/cV5MYz7p9q #telehealth #mhealth
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April 19, 2013 12:26 AM
There are a huge number of health apps existing. The bulk of healthcare expenditures is on in patient care. Remote patient monitoring technologies can reduce this to a large extent making it an extremely important part of healthcare costs programs.
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The prognosis is good for the future of tablets in healthcare, and that is thanks in part to the work going on at a promising British start-up.
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April 18, 2013 4:56 AM
SwiftKey Healtcare introduced a product which understands words and phrases used by medical professional. This is great example of an enabling technology which will have a major impact on mHealth
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It is not suprise that apple products dominate the health care market.
As stated "A study by Manhattan Research in 2011 found that 75 percent of physicians owned at least one Apple product. Vitera Healthcare's 2012 survey of healthcare professionals backed up this high number. The company's study found that 60 percent of respondents used an iPhone and 45 percent owned an iPad."