Category: apps
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Study: Popular Mobile Health Apps Carry Considerable Privacy Risks
Many of the most popular mobile health and fitness apps (both free and paid) carry considerable privacy risks for users—and that the privacy policies for those apps that have policies do not describe those risks, according to a new study from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Many of the most popular mobile health and fitness apps…
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CMS apps aim at transparency for payments, financial transactions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have introduced mobile apps to help physicians and the healthcare industry to track payments and other financial transfers, according to an… read more From: http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/cms-apps-aim-transparency-payments-financial-transactions/2013-07-19?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Travel Nursing Offers One Travel Nurse “The World To Gain” Through American Mobile Healthcare
http://bit.ly/AmericanMobileHealthcare Kathleen is a traveling nurse who includes her family of five (5) as she travels the country to pursue travel nursing …
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Submission to HISA’s Health Apps Challenge 2013
An app to help those with busy lives and/or chronic conditions to keep track of information and notes in a small, but potentially beneficial way, by fitting … Video Rating: 0 / 5 http://www.app4care.com App4Care is an innovative suite of carer management apps for iPhone, Android and tablet devices. App4Care delivers versatile and affo…
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Mobile measuring of asthma symptoms, adherence in teenagers effective
Mobile phones provide a feasible method for assessing asthma symptoms and medication adherence in adolescents, according to study results published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research…. read more Source: Mobile measuring of asthma symptoms, adherence in teenagers effective
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VA launches two mHealth pilot programs
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has officially launched mHealth pilot projects to test the technology prior to national release and to “ensure that the veteran experience is… read more Source: VA launches two mHealth pilot programs
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Big Brother in our health and fitness apps
This week, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a California nonprofit dedicated to empowering individuals to protect their privacy, issued a study on mobile health and fitness apps based on a… read more From: http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/big-brother-our-health-and-fitness-apps/2013-07-16?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Interview: mHealth lacks evidence, culture of evaluation
Better late than never goes the old adage, which is fitting for the authors of a just-published article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine which concludes that “rigorous research is… read more Source: Interview: mHealth lacks evidence, culture of evaluation
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Great potential for mHealth, but rigorous research is needed
Almost two years after researchers gathered for an mHealth Evidence Workshop at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an article has been published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine… read more Source: Great potential for mHealth, but rigorous research is needed
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USAID issues compendium of 27 mHealth case studies
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has put together a second volume of mHealth compendium produced by the African Strategies for Health Project in June 2013 but just… read more Source: USAID issues compendium of 27 mHealth case studies