chiscosayans, doctordoctores
“Es frecuente oír hablar de globalización en términos económicos, sin embargo es un concepto que afecta a todos los ámbitos de la vida, y la medicina no es una excepción. En un mundo en el que las perspectivas financieras y culturales están totalmente entrelazadas, no es extraño que esto también se traslade a la práctica médica.
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Michael Spitz, PhramaPhorum
“The rapid evolution of smartphones, app stores, and healthcare user behaviours has created an mHealth revolution, one so exponential in growth that Juniper Research has predicted 44 million app downloads by next year and 142 million by 2016, with revenue, as forecast by ABI Research, to grow from $120 million currently to over $400 million within those four years.
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Forbes
“Several large U.S. health insurance companies, including Aetna, WellPoint and UnitedHealth Group, currently offer mobile apps that help members find network providers and perform other simple functions.
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Katie Matlack, Healthcare IT News
“The iPad and the iPhone are a huge hit thanks to their ease of use, mobility and Internet connectivity. And of course the huge range of available apps has amazed all of us with just how many functions these devices can perform.
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Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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Rip Empson, TechCrunch
“Last month, we took a look at some of the ways mobile technology is transforming the health industry.
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Forbes
“Healthcare challenges are on the rise worldwide. Chronic conditions take an ever-greater toll, and costs are on the rise. But health insurance no longer bridges the gap for many, and healthcare systems struggle to balance the need for top-notch care and innovation against shrinking budgets.
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Gienna Shaw, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Mobile healthcare shows promise in developing countries, but when you look closely at some of the great programs and dedicated people that are out there with boots on the ground, it quickly becomes apparent that Western ideas about technology don’t always translate.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The Journal of Medical Internet Research recently published a research paper called, SMS Applications for Disease Prevention in Developing Countries
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Don Rosenthal, Thitse
“There are currently over 500,000 apps for the iPhone. Apple has written only a handful of those. How many would there be if Apple had to write a custom interface for every developer who wrote an app?
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“For a number of years now NASA Ames scientist Jing Li has been hard at work developing what Gizmodo recently called the “greatest phone accessory of all time.” The tech publication had an exclusive look Li’s gadget, a postage-sized chip with 32 nanosensor bars, each made up of a different nano-structure material that can respond to different chemicals in different ways.
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Spring Wise
“It wasn’t long ago that we covered MobiUS’s use of smartphone technology to provide portable ultrasound imaging, and recently we came across a related innovation.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Health Evolution Partners, the healthcare investment firm started by former US National Health Information Technology Coordinator Dr. David Brailer, has partnered with Verizon to identify and work with promising mobile health, telemedicine, and health data management companies.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Use of the Apple Inc. iPad in health care has risen dramatically since the device was released nearly two years ago. The warm embrace that the industry gave the device, by now, surprises few — health care had been waiting for an easy-to-use tablet, IT departments were already familiar with the iOS operating system and physicians fit nicely into the target market for iPad users (meaning, they can afford it).
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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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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The number of consumers using mobile devices to access health information has more than doubled in the past year, and the health care industry is taking note.
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Trajkovik V et al, Health and Technology, 2012
Adoption of mobile devices and technology in the field of medical monitoring and personal health care systems is very important nowadays, especially when it comes to certain categories of people with chronicle diseases who need 24 hour access to medical care. The collaborative Information system model we present in this paper, gives a new dimension in the usage of novel technologies in healthcare. Using mobile, web and broadband technologies enable the citizens to have ubiquity of support services where ever they may be.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Doctors are using iPads in huge numbers for personal life project management. 80% of doctors are excited about using them in clinical practice. But when it comes to clinical applications, don’t confuse physicians’ desire for mobility with their current use of iPads in everyday practice.
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CBR
“Mobile healthcare and medical App downloads will reach 44m in 2012 and 142m in 2016, says Juniper Research.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“A population that is on the move will increasingly turn to mobile health applications, predicts a new market study.
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