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The volume of scientific research about mobile healthcare technology has grown as the field itself has exploded, but the quality and focus of academic studies has not kept pace with the speed of innovation, a review of 10 years’ worth of published literature suggests.
“Mobile technology,...
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As we do at the end of every quarter, this month MobiHealthNews published our State of the Industry report for Q1 2013. The report not only includes a round-up of the mobile health startups that received investments during the first three months of the year, but also a collection of all the deals and...
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The new year brings new forecasts. While it does seem as if the prognosticators are getting more accurate, or at least on the same page, forecasting an immature market like mobile health remains an inexact science.
Business market intelligence company Transparency Market Research, Albany, N.Y., just...
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A new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) suggests that not only are people who are enrolled in consumer-driven health plans more cost conscious, but they’re also more engaged with mobile health and digital health tools.
EBRI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that seeks to...
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According to Manhattan Research, the number of adults in the US who used their mobile phones for health information and tools grew from 61 million in 2011 to 75 million this year. Using tablets for accessing health information and tools doubled over the past year: 15 million US adults used tablets for...
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Quick Note: On October 4th, the Mayo Clinic and Preventice will be joining MobiHealthNews for a free online event discussing the imminent and inevitable rise of remote patient monitoring. RPM is without a doubt one of the cornerstones of digital health — don’t miss out — free registration...
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A branch of the National Institutes of Health is seeking input on plans to establish a public-private partnership to coordinate research on mobile and wireless technologies in healthcare.
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) on Friday issued a request for information on organizations...
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According to the latest survey from Manhattan Research, many in-person interactions between pharmaceutical company representatives and physicians are now aided by the pharma rep’s iPad. Manhattan polled more than 1,800 practicing physicians in the United States during the second quarter of 2012...
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IMS Research seems to pile on to growing number of research reports that point to wearable devices as an important trend in digital health: According to IMS by 2016 the “minimum revenue opportunity” for wearable devices will be $6 billion.
IMS Research notes that the current market for wearable...
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A recent report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Customer Experience in Healthcare: The Moment of Truth, sketches out the rise of consumer health, and, of course, mobile is increasingly a key channel that providers need to get right.
PwC points to five “forces” that are pushing providers in the...
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In May GigaOm published its first ebook, called Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud and big data will reinvent healthcare, written by longtime digital health scholar and consultant Jody Ranck. Within the book’s more than 200 pages is perhaps the most comprehensive and studied analysis of connected...
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Of the more than 13,600 consumer heath apps we analyzed in April, the vast majority fit snugly into one of our 12 main subcategories, which include cardio fitness, dieting, stress relief, chronic condition management, and medication adherence. Since we began tracking consumer health apps in early 2010...
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Four years after the launch of the AppStore, growth in the number of available consumer health apps for iPhone users is still accelerating. It’s growing more quickly now than ever. There were more consumer health apps in April 2012 than we expected there to be: In July 2011 we predicted that the...
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The federally funded Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has granted researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center a $500,000 award to conduct a two-year study that will determine the interest in and need for apps that help improve identification and management of risk factors for stroke...
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Annually since 2004, the president of the University of Massachusetts system has had discretionary funds to award to faculty research projects in science and technology. This year, President Robert L. Caret gave the largest of $750,000 in Science and Technology Initiatives Fund grants – a $185,000 award...