All Blog Posts Tagged 'mobile' (10)

According to a recent study, consumers expect to adopt the use of mobile technology in healthcare at a faster rate providers will be able to adapt. The study found that consumers have high expectations for mHealth, namely that it will drastically improve the convenience, cost and quality of their healthcare. Additionally, consumers see mHealth as a way to provide healthcare to markets where access is historically low.…

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Yesterday, Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post announced a new mobile health application, projected to launch this June:

 

I'm delighted to announce that HuffPost, along with…

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In healthcare, social media is all about enabling participatory medicine, where networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health and in which providers encourage and value them as “full partners.”

 

We live in the age of Twitter, citizen journalism and flashmobs. There is no quicker way to capture and publish data than the Internet. There is no traditional method of data collection that provides the immediacy of an online survey. And…

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The huge increase in mobile users in Africa has opened new avenues for healthcare. As reported by The Independent this weekend, phones and texts are increasingly being used on the continent to remind of appointments, medication and test results.

I’ve…

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Following the widespread coverage last month of the iStethoscope, an iPhone app that allows the user to record their heartbeat and send the results to a specialists, it seems that mobile health is becoming a reality.

As this BBC article…

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This week PricewaterhouseCoopers released results of a new survey which revealed that that, "one-third of Americans would be willing to use their cell phone to track

health information, and about 40 percent said they'd pay for a mobile

phone app that let them refill prescriptions, provided access to health

records or nagged them to take their meds." The survey was completed by 2,000 consumers and 1,000 physicians.… Continue

Today UrologyMatch.com announced that they would bringing their urology-centric website to the iPhone, iTouch and iPad via a free mobile application. Medical students, educators, and professionals in the field of urology have already been accessing free content on UrologyMatch.com such as videos, photos, journal articles… Continue

In recent years, we’ve seen a increased focus on fitness in an attempt

to curb the rising rates of obesity in the UK. Games developers and

manufacturers, with a revised emphasis on a more social and active

gaming approach to target the whole family and not just your avid gamer,

have started to offer fitness games, most notably on the hugely popular

Wii Fit.



These games, tools and apps are increasingly commonplace on mobile, with… Continue

The latest post from the Ozmosis Blog examines how medicine may be practiced in a mobile world:



Apple changed the world when they launched the iPod. When the iPhone came out, a new standard for smart phones was set, healthcare apps appeared, and the devices were quickly adopted by physicians (here… Continue

The WSJ Health Blog wrote today on the idea of "Mobile Medicine." The post mentions one trend in technology and health which can't be ignored: making patient information available anywhere at anytime.



It's interesting to think of a physician inputting your health information into their iPhone rather than their hospital computer. Mobile devices would certainly enable… Continue