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Funding m-health via 'alpha daughters'

Patient-centered care is one thing. Now how about designing a business model not necessarily around the patient, but around the family caregiver? In this case, call her the "alpha daughter," the

500M will use smartphone health apps worldwide by 2015

There will be 1.4 billion people with smartphones worldwide by 2015, and 500 million of them will be using mobile health applications, according to a new study from German analysis firm

Continua pushes 'personal connected health' as payers mull reimbursement

You may have noticed an unusually high number of stories in today's FierceMobileHealthcare about surveys, studies and prognostications for the mobile health market. Much of the data we reference are

Radiology, surgical systems shrinking, becoming more mobile, Waegemann says

Mobile healthcare clearly is booming. Just look at all the m-health conferences that are popping up around the globe. Obviously, we can't be at them all, but, fortunately, others can be. One such

Mobile app helps find healthcare prices, track HSA spending

A financial firm has developed perhaps the first mobile application to help people with high-deductible insurance and other consumer-directed health plans ferret out elusive prices for health