Mobile Health news and information

Using mobile health technology to monitor patients in poor urban areas could improve residents' access to healthcare while also reducing healthcare spending, a study conducted in a Rio de Janeiro hillside "favela" slum suggests.
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The government's efforts to promote prevention through its healthfinder.gov website took another step forward April 30 when HHS named San Carlos, Calif.-based Lyfechannel and its myfamily app the winner in its Mobile App Challenge.
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As digital health technology booms, MDRevolution is a first stab at trying to show how mobile health tracking tools, genetic assessments and personalized coaching can work together.
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A California independent practice association has announced the close to new entrants in its two-year, $3 million Big Data analytic software competition.
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In what could turn out to be one of the largest ever population health investigations, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco plan to enroll 1 million people with smartphones in a worldwide cardiovascular study aimed at improving heart health.
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The healthcare arm of the Veterans Affairs Department and the United Kingdom's National Health Service are teaming up under a three-year agreement to swap leaders, staff and ideas about the use of healthcare information technology by the two huge government-financed systems, according to a new...
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Lawmakers and mobile health advocates plan to address how the Food and Drug Administration should regulate mobile health technologies, such as smartphones and mobile medical apps that are increasingly being used for health-related reasons.
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Health information technology company Athenahealth announced the completion of its acquisition of mobile application developer Epocrates.
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The digital age has made what was was once obscure visible. In ways we never could before, we can quantify the world—make it knowable to us, comprehensible to us—by gathering data and identifying patterns and generally converting experience into information.
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Happtique, the for-profit mobile healthcare applications marketplace developed by GNYHA Ventures, the group purchasing arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association, has released its first set of testing and certification criteria for mobile healthcare apps, the company has announced.
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