Everion Wearable Collects, Transmits Health Data [video]

by Jim Ware | November 1, 2017 | General News, Medical

  One problem with clinical studies is test subjects typically must go to a hospital or physician’s office for testing. Mobile health and remote monitoring health tech devices are changing the face of medical research, providing more data while making the process...

mHealth App Detects Postpartum Depression

by Bruce Brown | October 31, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical

Approximately one in nine women has symptoms of postpartum depression (PPD) after having a baby, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Postpartum depression (PPD) is more intense and a greater potential risk for the mother and newborn than...

mHealth App Adoption #Fail without Context

by Bruce Brown | October 30, 2017 | General News, Medical

“If you build it, they will come.” That strategy worked for Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams character Ray, a farmer who attracted ghosts of baseball greats to a ball diamond he constructed in an Iowa cornfield. If you have an idea for a nifty mHealth...

Cedars-Sinai Offers Patients App on Apple Watch

by Jim Ware | October 30, 2017 | General News, Medical

How would you like to manage your medical records or find the nearest hospital from the Apple Watch on your wrist? Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles  has an app for that and more. The Cedars-Sinai app also allows patients to communicate with doctors, check...

WhatsApp Saves Lives in Argentinian Ambulances

by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2017 | General News, Medical

Patient survival rate increases with faster treatment following a myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack. We wrote previously about CathMaps+, a mobile app that can give directions to the closest hospital with a cardiac catheter lab and stores...

Multi-modal Patient Support with NurseConnect [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2017 | General News, Medical

We’ve written extensively about telemedicine. We’ve covered applications as diverse as using drones to deliver telemedicine capabilities to disaster locations and telemedicine for ships’ crew at sea. We covered a report on telemedicine’s...