Mobile Health news and information

Before there can be patient-generated data, there have to be patients willing and able to provide it and tools to capture, communicate, receive and present it. That's where Dr. Susan Woods comes in.
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You can lead college students to soap and water, but you can't make them wash their hands. In fact, you can't even make them read their e-mail.That was one takeaway from an outbreak of pneumonia at Georgia Tech last fall that sickened at least 83 students—"the largest (outbreak) reported at a...
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It's a sign of our digital times: More and more people are going online to check symptoms of illness before calling the doctor. Surprisingly, a growing number of doctors are fine with it and have significantly shifted their view on patients who symptom-surf.
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An iPhone application that may be the future of prescription management launched Monday at a pharmacy near you—if you happen to live on New York's Upper East Side.
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Providers are receiving a much larger volume of personal health data from patients, and experts are crafting recommendations on how best to manage the flood of information.
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Mobile computing devices are becoming almost as much of an essential tool in U.S. physician practices as the exam table, according to a new survey.
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Craig Michael Lie Njie spent a chunk of his life developing an online privacy shield, but when he tried to get his own mother to use it, she wouldn't click on the button. Why?
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Technology industry association leaders who testified Thursday before a House subcommittee hearing on whether legislation is needed for data breach reporting called for Congress to pre-empt state laws on data breaches. But at least one witness opposed such preemption.
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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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