Mobile Health news and information

Many popular mobile health applications may help improve your fitness and well-being, but users should weigh those benefits against the likely loss of privacy from the personal information they extract in return for their services, according to new reports by a California-based privacy rights...
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Dr. Steven Steinhubl has joined Scripps Health as director of its digital medicine program.
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Watch out for a French person talking about revolution.“The patient is the revolutionary in healthcare these days,” said Dr. Bettina Experton, a French-born oncologist turned U.S. citizen and health IT entrepreneur. “That is why I think Blue Button is revolutionary.”
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PatientPoint, the provider of a mobile-enabled care coordination and patient engagement platform, has named two new executives to its Orlando, Fla., leadership team—John McAuley as COO and Eldon Richards as VP of engineering and technology services.
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They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin. But if your doctor writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new twist on an old cliché: “Take two of these ingestible computers, and they will e-mail me in the...
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Last week, Google Glass made history by becoming the first wearable technology to document a surgical operation. Dr. Rafael Grossman, a general trauma, acute-care and advanced laparoscopic surgeon from Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine, performed a simple surgical procedure and...
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Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) reintroduced a bill that aims to boost investment and development in the mobile health market and establish an office within the Food and Drug Administration that is dedicated to wireless health.
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Eight minutes: that’s the average time a patient spends with his or her doctor during an appointment. And for many, it’s just not enough. To battle this ongoing problem, Dr. Gopal Chopra, a neurosurgeon-turned-entrepreneur, developed a free app called PingMD that enables a person to...
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A smartphone app that launches this week gives the health insurance company Aetna access to detailed user health-tracking data. As costs spiral upward, healthcare companies could turn to such apps as a way to monitor customers and encourage healthy behavior.
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Despite the influx of millions of new Americans gaining coverage next year because of the healthcare reform law, the projected percentage cost increase to treat patients is expected to decline as consumers become savvier in how to spend healthcare dollars, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers...
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