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Topic: medical mobile apps

Nephosity’s medical image viewing app gets FDA nod for use in remote diagnosis

Nephosity’s medical image viewing app gets FDA nod for use in remote diagnosis

May 23, 2013 2:14 pm by | 0 Comments

The FDA has given the OK to digital health startup Nephosity to market its image viewing mobile app for diagnostic purposes.Nephosity said it receive 510(k) clearance for use of its ... Read more
A diabetes doctor’s wish list for mobile health

A diabetes doctor’s wish list for mobile health

May 7, 2013 4:09 pm by | 0 Comments

The daily testing and monitoring responsibilities for diabetes patients has made them, and their physicians, a prime target for mobile health products and services. But research suggests that even in ... Read more
So many apps, so little adoption: Docs say most patients who track data do it the old-fashioned way

So many apps, so little adoption: Docs say most patients who track data do it the old-fashioned way

April 19, 2013 6:08 pm by | 11 Comments

The good news for mobile health app developers is that physicians seem to be open to the idea of reviewing data that patients have tracked themselves. The bad news is ... Read more
MCN Top 10: Best lines from day 3 testimony about FDA regulating mobile health apps

MCN Top 10: Best lines from day 3 testimony about FDA regulating mobile health apps

March 22, 2013 12:19 am by | 0 Comments

If this is the way most House hearings go, I can see why nothing gets done in Washington. On the third day of hearings about FDA regulations of mobile medical ... Read more
Apple will take 65% of the global $25 billion app economy in 2013, analyst says

Apple will take 65% of the global $25 billion app economy in 2013, analyst says

March 12, 2013 11:13 am by | 0 Comments

The global app economy will reach $25 billion this year, according to new data from ABI Research. 35 percent of that, or $8.8 billion, will be tablet apps, and 65 ... Read more
3 ways for brands to create groundbreaking mobile experiences

3 ways for brands to create groundbreaking mobile experiences

March 9, 2013 11:29 am by | 3 Comments

It’s no secret that smartphones are overwhelmingly the most popular and fastest growing mobile access point to the Internet today. Just recently we learned that by the end of this ... Read more
Practice Fusion’s first major acquisition makes health ‘feel like less of a chore’

Practice Fusion’s first major acquisition makes health ‘feel like less of a chore’

February 26, 2013 11:12 pm by | 0 Comments

Practice Fusion, a company that provides free web-based health records to doctors, is now expanding to serve the general public too. The companyhas just acquired 100Plus, a mobile ... Read more

Heart health app wins national contest

Heart health app wins national contest

February 14, 2013 10:25 pm by | 0 Comments

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, a division of Marshfield Clinic, has won a national competition for the best mobile app to improve heart health.The research foundation will receive $100,000 to support ... Read more
Apple may be unable to maintain iPad market share

Apple may be unable to maintain iPad market share

February 12, 2013 3:57 pm by | 0 Comments

Citi analysts Glen Yeung, Walter H Pritchard and Jim Suva think that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reached the end of the line for tablet growth. "Apple has again lost tablet ... Read more
800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December, study says

800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December, study says

February 6, 2013 12:27 pm by | 1 Comments

By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use: 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple’s iOS, and 45 million ... Read more

Public health officials put a handy mobile app to use in mass immunization efforts

Public health officials put a handy mobile app to use in mass immunization efforts

January 30, 2013 8:19 am by | 0 Comments

In the fall of 2011, Health and Human Services CTO Todd Park challenged developers and public health professionals to work together to create mobile apps that would help track, measure ... Read more
AutisMate: An iPad app for personalized autism therapy

AutisMate: An iPad app for personalized autism therapy

January 29, 2013 12:40 pm by | 0 Comments

For children and adults with autism, who face daily challenges with basic social interaction, the iPad has been something of a godsend. Apple’s tablet has ushered in a slew of ... Read more
Report card app for health products could make shopping at the drugstore a little less confusing

Report card app for health products could make shopping at the drugstore a little less confusing

January 24, 2013 9:33 am by | 0 Comments

Energy drinks are in the news again this week as members of Congress call on the companies that make them to provide data about their ingredients and marketing claims. But ... Read more
4 observations about the $293 million athenahealth-Epocrates acquisition

4 observations about the $293 million athenahealth-Epocrates acquisition

January 8, 2013 7:00 am by | 0 Comments

With its agreement to purchase Epocrates Inc. (NASDAQ:EPOC), health IT company athenahealth Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN) is hoping to go mobile, expand its network of customers and strengthen its brand awareness among ... Read more
Are we headed toward the over-quantified self?

Are we headed toward the over-quantified self?

January 1, 2013 8:27 am by | 6 Comments

Personal health monitoring is a big part of the future of healthcare, according to popular opinion. But when does patient monitoring cross the line from enabling and empowering people to ... Read more