New report reveals diabetes mobile apps fall short of meeting best practice standards.
Most of the current diabetes mobile apps on the market fail to comply with standards that are widely accepted in the rest of the app market, according to Ralf-Gordon Jahns, founder of market research & consultancy Research 2 Guidance. In their latest study on the mobile health app market titled, “Diabetes App Market Report 2014” reveals diabetic apps failed to utilize their full potential and were
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Monitoring Services Remains Most Dominant Mobile Health Market Segment
Monitoring services is expected to remain the most dominant and fastest growing mobile health market segment, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. The study found monitoring services market revenue reached of $1,227.5 million in 2012 with an estimated CAGR of 49.% from 2014 to 2020. Chronic disease management was also cited as the largest contributor to the monitoring services market, with higher demand from developed markets of North America and Europe.
Other key findings
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Verizon Converged Health Management Receives New FDA Clearance, Adds Two New Biometric Devices
Verizon’s Converged Health Management, a remote patient-monitoring medical platform designed to help clinicians and patients manage patients’ health in between doctor visits, just received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to run on the iOS (Apple, Inc.) mobile operating system.
Patients and clinicians now will be able to access Verizon’s solution on their iPhones and can use their iPads to access the Converged Health Management portal.
In addition, Converged Health
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Practice Fusion Partners with AliveCor and Diasend for Device Data Integration with EHR
Practice Fusion partners with AliveCor and Diasend to help doctors gain a more complete picture of their patient’s health.
It’s no secret that medical devices like heart rate monitors and blood glucose meters can help patients manage their health. However, for the doctors that prescribe these devices, the recurring challenge is how to regularly – and easily – access and analyze the resulting treasure troves of data to deliver better care.
Today, Practice Fusion, the largest cloud based EHR
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Qualcomm Integrates Bluetooth Low Energy Enable Connected Medical and Fitness Devices
Today at HIMSS 2014, Qualcomm Life announced the integration of Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, with the 2net Hub software, making the 2net Hub one of the first standalone, FDA-listed wireless gateways on the market that can seamlessly connect to BLE-enabled medical and fitness devices. This latest 2net Hub software release significantly expands Qualcomm Life’s solution portfolio as it adds yet another software radio management capability to support integration of a variety of BLE-enabled medical
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What the Heck is mHealth?
Wanted: White knight (shiny amour optional) to save us from ourselves and the wretched lifestyles we choose.
Your coffeemaker went dead on you this morning, and while lamenting your drowsiness at work, your friend Denise mentions that she just bought a new coffeemaker at Target and she absolutely loves it. You take your coffee the same way Denise does, black, strong, and all day long, so you decide to buy one for yourself. You are a busy professional and you don’t have time to go to Target,
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New Technology Allows Doctors to Remotely Monitor Patient Heart Conditions Via Wireless Messaging
A new experimental technology option for heart disease is currently being tested that allows doctors to remotely monitor patient heart conditions via wireless messaging, PR Newswire reports. The clinical trail called LAPTOP-HF (Left Atrial Pressure Monitoring to Optimize Heart Failure Therapy) at the University of Kansas hospital is designed to investigate a new way to help treat heart failure by helping doctors adjust a patient's medications before symptoms develop or require
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Samsung Partners with CellTrust to Offer Pager Replacement for Physicians
Samsung has partnered with CellTrust to offer pager replacement for physicians solution, PULSE designed to alleviate communication challenges in healthcare.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading mobile device and consumer electronics provider and CellTrust Corporation, a global leader in secure mobile communication and Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP) Gold Partner, announced their collaboration to offer a Pager Replacement Solution for Critical Healthcare Communication.
With the
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Infographic: The Impact of Meaningful Use on the Mobile App Market
Infographic created by VoiceFirst illustrates how Meaningful Use is driving the mobile app market as more hospitals and healthcare providers meet the Meaningful Use requirements.
Related: 6 Most Commonly Performed Tasks by Doctors on Tablets
Featured image credit: Nicola since 1972 via cc
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Adidas Sues Under Armour for Violating Mobile Health Fitness Patents
Adidas has charged Under Armour Inc. for violation of 10 mobile health fitness related patent infringements for technology used in a “location-aware” fitness system that allows users to monitor their heart rates, calories burned and other data.
According to the Law360, the suit alleges Amour39 violated patents for technology for their fitness and monitoring system involving multiple devices including:
Sensors
Chest Strap
Mobile health related software that can record and store user’s
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