Category: apps
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Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes
When it comes to consumers’ obsessive use of mobile devices to run mHealth apps and get health information, this kind of technology “addiction” might not be a bad thing, so argues… read more Source: Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes
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Consumers feel pinch as hospitals add telemedicine services
Reimbursements from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund have soared as hospitals add telemedicine services–and those costs are being passed on to consumers. A companion to the federal Universal… read more Source: Consumers feel pinch as hospitals add telemedicine services
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Mobile Technology and Health in Malawi
This story is a series of reports on the impact of mobile technology and health in 10 African countries. Imani Cheers is a 2013 New Media Fellow with the Int…
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Online Tech Seminar: Pocket Healthcare: The Promise and Challenges of Mobile Health
Mobile phones are becoming an increasingly important platform for the delivery of health interventions. Phones are used to encourage physical activity and he… Video Rating: 0 / 5 Disruptive technologies displace an earlier technology while adding greater value. Gone are the days of physicians sitting at their desks at the end of the d…
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New mHealth framework must integrate into existing functions
Applying a health systems “lens” to the evaluation of mobile healthcare initiatives, a recent article in the peer-reviewed journal Global Health: Science and Practice argues that mHealth… read more Source: New mHealth framework must integrate into existing functions
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Apps for Toddlers
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2012/01/03/five-best-apple-ipad-applications-for-toddlers/ If you’re brave enough to chance it, you might be surprised to le… Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Aging 2.0 at the 2012 mHealth Summit
Stephen Johnston and Katy Fike, co-founders of Aging 2.0, talk with Bernie Monegain about the relationship between gerontology and mobile health at the 2012 … Video Rating: 0 / 5
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State legislator calls for expanded use of telehealth
State Representative Klint Kesto of Michigan's 39th district made a public call for greater use of telehealth tools in a letter to the editor published today in the Kalamazoo Gazette. read more Source: State legislator calls for expanded use of telehealth
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James BonTempo “mHealth: Saving Lives, one mobile phone at a time” – Ignite Baltimore 5
Five minutes, 20 slides, rotating automatically every 15 seconds. James BonTempo, technology advisor for Jhpiego, a non-profit international health organizat… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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FCC’s Matthew Quinn: mHealth needs steady guidance, innovation
In April, the Federal Communications Commission selected the agency’s first Director of Healthcare Initiatives, Matthew Quinn, to be the FCC’s leader and central point of contact to external… read more Source: FCC’s Matthew Quinn: mHealth needs steady guidance, innovation