How Europe is Growing Health Apps
John Sharp, HealthWorks Collective
“Health and medical apps are growing at an incredible pace in the US. But what about Europe? Are there equally creative ideas going on across the pond?
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Medical Reference Apps For Android #mHealth
Nrip Nihalani, HealthWorks Collective
“By providing the latest evidence based medicine updates at the point-of-care, Smartphones are proving to be a very important tool for improving quality of healthcare.
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US$ 1.3 billion: The market for mHealth applications in 2012
Ralf-Gordon Jahns and Grace Gair, research2guidance
“The smartphone application market for mobile healthcare will reach US$ 1.3 billion in 2012 – up from US$ 718 million in 2011. Despite this substantial growth, the mHealth market is still in an embryonic state – especially in comparison to the US$ 6 trillion of the overall global healthcare market.
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Are apps medical devices? Part two: Apps as medical devices – the regulatory framework
Paul Dixey and Sam Walmsley, pharmaphorum
“The main difference between how medicines and medical devices are regulated lies in how a product gets onto the market. In the UK all medicines are directly approved by the MHRA which issues a ‘marketing authorisation’, or licence. Medical devices however are approved by private sector organisations called ‘Notified bodies’.
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Kaiser Permanente offers patients Android app for EMR access
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Kaiser Permanente announced today that its nearly 9 million patients can now securely access their electronic medical records (EMRs) from a new, free mobile app on their Android devices or from other mobile devices via a mobile-optimized site.
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Is there a regulation for that?
e-Health Insider
“Mobile health apps were recently described as “the single-biggest digital channel since the 90s and the web” by business and research consultancy Frost and Sullivan.
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Researchers build iPad app around autism skills
Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“University of Edinburgh researchers have combined gaming with autism research in a new app, FindMe, that they say could help autistic children as young as 18 months. Touchscreens, tablets and other mobile technologies already were known to interest autistic children, but researchers say FindMe is the first game to directly engage their specific learning style, and use that engagement to build social skills.
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Happtique Launches Certification Program for Mobile Health Apps
Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Happtique, an online mobile health application marketplace, has announced it will develop a certification program to vet thousands of mobile applications that doctors, nurses and patients use.
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Happtique steps up to certify mobile health apps
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Happtique, a healthcare-focused appstore, announced plans to create a certification program that will help the medical community determine which of the tens of thousands of health-related mobile apps are clinically appropriate and technically sound. The company has tapped a multi-disciplinary team to develop the “bona fide mHealth app certification program” within the next six months.
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The market for mHealth application reached $US 718 million in 2011
Ralf-Gordon Jahns, research2guidance
“2011 was the first year of substantial business in the market for mobile health services delivered via smartphone applications. Since our first mHealth report was published last year, the growth in this market has greatly accelerated.
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How Healthcare’s Embrace of Mobility has Turned Dangerous
Eric Lai, Business2Community
“Doctors love their devices. 81% of physicians have smartphones. They also love their apps. 38% of them use medical apps daily. One-third use smartphones or tablets to access electronic medical records today, with another 20% expecting to start using them this year.
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5 game changing mobile health apps of 2011
Michael Spitz, pharmaphorum
“If 2010 was the year social media trumped search as the predominant online activity, then 2011 will historically be characterized as the tipping point where mobile has proven itself as the location-independent digital future.
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iPad: ‘Wild West’ of Medical Apps Seeks Sheriff
Robert McMillan, Wired Enterprise
“Mark Cain got his big break on June 9, 2008. The chief technology officer at a little-known medical software company, MIM Software, Cain was invited onstage at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference to promote his company’s iPhone app, a way for doctors to view incredibly detailed scans of their patients.
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MDs without EMRs miss out on emerging trends
Marie Carniello, Technology for Doctors Online
“I recently attended two healthcare conferences, featuring speakers from across Canada and the United States. I returned to my office feeling truly excited about the future and how the delivery of healthcare is being transformed in response to advances in healthcare informatics. The speakers brought to light how a number of larger facilities (hospitals, CCACs, lab repositories, etc.) have bridged some of the interoperability and interconnectivity issues between legacy systems.
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How the right app can make you healthier
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET
“In a recent small trial, 30 patients with type 2 diabetes spent 12 months using a smartphone app that provided real-time feedback on their blood-sugar levels, prompted them when to eat or take other action, and sent digital logbooks of their readings back to their doctors.
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Mobile App Takes mHealth To New Level at Israeli Hospital
Michael, Mobile Marketing Watch
“A new iPad app is being hailed as major advancement for mHealth, particularly with regard to how certain patient procedures can be tracked and monitored by doctors, medical staff, and the patient’s own family and loved ones.
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iPad app enables real-time tracking of catheterization procedure
Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“An Israeli hospital has developed an app for iPads that provides staff, patients, and family members with real-time tracking of progress in catheterization and angioplasty procedures.
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Organized, Integrated Apps May Drive Physicians’ Medical App Use
Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“Medical apps are gaining increasing momentum as hospitals adopt them to connect with patients, and physicians begin to use them to access information quickly. Mobile health apps have become so popular, in fact, that the FDA has gotten involved, holding a public workshop on its draft guidance for mobile medical applications in mid-September.
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Tech Beat: Health care and mobile convergence
Bob Morse, Times-Standard
“At long last, the health industry in slowly adopting technology on a large scale, moving to electronic documents, computer generated prescriptions, and information sharing. It’s been a rough road as standards and privacy issues have to be grappled with beyond the sheer technical problems. But the trade-offs in efficiency, accuracy and data gathering will be well worth the struggle. Mobile technology will play an increasing role in both institutional and personal health care advances.
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Philips app measures vitals using iPad camera
Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Philips recently launched an iPad app, Vital Signs Camera, that measures the user’s heart rate and breathing via the tablet’s front-facing camera. The $0.99 app, available only for the iPad 2, is intended for entertainment purposes only.
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