Alongside the NCAA basketball tournament, we’ve developed a competition among mobile health devices and apps. The Sweet Sixteen has been reduced to the Elite Eight that includes an operating room app, remote monitors, tools to engage patients in their own healthcare and apps to make it easier to exchange information between physicians. Unlike the weekend’s […]
A smartphone that transforms into a mobile electrocardiogram monitor to make remote monitoring easier faces a worthy opponent in the form of an app to help physicians explain medical procedures to make patients more involved in their care.
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A diabetes manager to improve adherence by helping patients feel more in control of their condition faces competition from a multimedia reference tool to engage users by giving them a better understanding of their health.
An app that could help alert surgeons how much blood a patient has lost faces an educational app developed by Johns Hopkins Mobile Medicine unit to assess the needs of burn victims and how to determine burn severity.
ZappyLab's Lab Counter to help biomedical scientists work more efficiently goes up against AirStrip's patient monitoring platform that breaks down information silos and provides transparency by delivering patient data where physicians are.
An adapter app combo could create more flexible opthamology practices to detect detached retinas faces off against an app to help patients with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders manage their conditions.
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A medical app that's designed to make use of the high availability of smartphones in developing countries by converting them into ultrasound tools is pitted against a controversial app to help users assess the risk of whether a patch of discolored skin could pose a cancer risk.
An app to improve physician access to cardiology and radiology scans goes up against a smartphone breathalyzer to improve road safety and help people make more informed decisions about alcohol levels.
An app that provides users a way to carry around their personal health record and improve communication with physicians faces off with an app that syncs up with an FDA cleared blood pressure monitor to track heart rate and pulse.
The Congressional hearings debating the regulatory framework for mobile health devices and apps made me think about how we view mobile health apps and the criteria we use to determine what makes some better than others. And as we all think in terms of the NCAA college basketball tournament around this time, I thought we […]
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