New Humana Goal Guru app brings employers in on wellness engagement
Humana is betting that getting employers involved will produce better results than some payers have had with purely consumer-facing health and wellness apps.
ResearchKit app to help Boston Children’s study fevers
The hospital hopes to gain insight into a common but oft-neglected condition: fevers.
U.S. Navy gets into mobile health apps
The U.S. Navy has jumped into the mobile health app market, with the recent launch of its Anatomy Study Guide App that aims to help aspiring medical students. The Navy’s ad agency, Lowe Campell Ewald, designed the app “that will serve as a relevant tool to help students with their studies and remind them that […]
FDA approves Gauss Surgical’s app that turns iPads into real-time surgical blood loss monitors
A system that uses an iPad camera and cloud analytics to help anesthesiologists monitor how much blood a patient is losing during surgery has gotten the FDA’s OK for use in the operating room. Mobile health startup Gauss Surgical said today it plans to begin rolling out its Triton Fluid Management System to hospitals next […]
Profile of a successful mhealth app: Made for iOS, connects to other APIs, sells as a service
There are more than 100,000 mobile health apps, by one research firm’s count, but the great majority of them get downloaded fewer than 50,000 times and don’t bring in more than $10,000 in revenue. Mobile research firm research2guidance surveyed more than 2,000 mobile health app developers around the world and examined the differences between those […]
Big Health gets $3.3M to bring its digital sleep coach across the pond
Another digital health sleep product will land in the U.S. later this year via a London-based company that’s just gotten its first venture round to expand. Big Health delivers personalized cognitive behavioral therapy programs through web and mobile platforms. Its first offering, Sleepio, is a six-week sleep improvement program that teaches people techniques to overcome […]
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Opportunities in mhealth: Docs use apps to make them more efficient, want mobile EHR access
Contrary to what some might believe, doctors don’t necessarily resist new technology – if it will make them more efficient. At least two-thirds of physicians in a new survey by MedData Group reported using some kind of mobile app on the job, and most often they’re using it to check medication interactions. But there are […]
The best of clinical trial engagement apps leverage social, rewards, predictive analytics
Clinical trials cost drug companies a lot of money and can experience delays or even higher costs when patients drop out. A challenge sponsored by Eli Lilly, UBC, Enlight Biosciences and the Partnerships in Clinical Trials meeting asked developers to submit ideas for using mobile platforms to educate, engage and empower participants enrolled in clinical […]
Software development company throws its hat in the ring to try to passively track nutrition
Of all the biometric data that health wearables and mobile apps can track, from miles moved to hours slept to heart beats per minute, no one has yet been able to nail down a way to accurately and passively monitor food intake. Because nutrition is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, and food tracking […]
The more you move, the better you play with Tappy Fit’s clever new game for Fitbit users
In an attempt to weave health data into other aspects of life, Aaron Coleman developed a Flappy Birds-like game app that uses data recorded by a person’s Fitbit to control its difficulty. “There’s plenty of literature that suggests keeping people mindful of their daily physical activity level makes them more likely to increase it,” he […]
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Samsung’s new app borrows your idle phone’s processing power to crunch cancer data
Samsung Austria has teamed up with cancer researchers at the University of Vienna on a creative way to help them be more productive in decoding the masses of protein sequence data they collect. Power Sleep is a free Android app that crowdsources computing power from the processors of idle phones. After downloading the app, users […]
To drive adoption of mobile health apps, design them with these 6 fundamentals in mind
A great majority of patients with chronic diseases would accept mobile app prescriptions from their physicians, according to a survey of 2,000 patients released last summer. Yet physicians for the most part haven’t adopted the practice — for a number of reasons. In a new interview with ACONews, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ managing director of healthcare strategy and […]
Pharmacist finds ‘significant errors’ in popular Bugs + Drug app
Physicians might be using more mobile healthcare apps, but the question of trust is one that still looms. An example of that comes this week in the form of a pharmacist’s biting review of an app from the powerhouse team of Epocrates and Athenahealth. The app in question, Bugs + Drugs, pairs Epocrates’ clinical content […]