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Happtique bets docs will prescribe apps if taught how
Mobile health applications distributor Happtique, which earlier this year announced that it was starting an app vetting process, now is taking on an even bigger mHealth challenge--getting doctors to actually prescribe apps to their patients.
Stressed smartphone users experience 'phantom texts,' study shows; WebMD launches new baby app;
> Becker's Hospital Review recently published an intriguing list of the "7 must-have iPad apps" not for physicians, but for C-level hospital execs. Article > Forget "distracted doctoring," a
MIT app trials smartphone monitoring of hospital patients
Call it a startup made good. Ginger.io , a health monitoring app created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now has a clinical pilot underway to test its theory that smartphone use patterns
Breast cancer app streamlines patient care assessment
As voting wraps up this coming week for the American Medical Association's app challenge, we've learned some interesting details about a breast cancer app that could be a front-runner. Breast surgeon
Online rewards key to effectiveness of apps for your hospital's patients
Many health CIOs are trying to tease out or develop health apps that are useful, rather than simply entertaining--and thus worthy of being provided as part of clinical therapies. And recent research
CDC is looking for a few good flu apps
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants developers to come up with some solid technology-enabled ways to augment its public health efforts. The solution can be a smartphone app, website,
FDA guidance on smartphone apps not likely until end of 2011
Bakul Patel, the FDA's policy advisor for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), let slip during a "what if" modeling session with industry members at the Food and Drug Law
Google's Schmidt believes smartphones could replace PCs
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Madrid on Tuesday, called smartphones "the new PCs," according to FierceWireless. Pointing out that recent smartphone
New player moves into Windows app market
Well-known medical information publisher Unbound Medicine is the first big player to offer medical apps on Windows Phone 7 devices. Although Microsoft has been notoriously slow in reaching for a
