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Can apps, mobile health replace physicians?
When Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla wrote an eye-opening commentary in January positing that computers, and particularly mobile health devices, could replace certain physician functions , it
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
mHealth's future: How close are we to seeing a 'digital nervous system'?
A New York Times editorial really shot the moon this week, predicting some pretty intriguing mobile healthcare options for use with practically no physician input or involvement. While most of the
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
MIT health-monitoring app gets investor notice
mHealth newcomer Ginger.io , a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab, just emerged from TechStar's three-month incubation program in Boston to debut an intriguing new smartphone app. The company says the
Study: Stronger privacy rules slow EMR adoption
In a conclusion that isn't likely to please health privacy wonks, a group of researchers have published a paper suggesting that tighter health privacy rules could significantly slow the rate of EMR
