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Wireless project aims to improve diabetes care on U.S-Mexico border
Like a powerful signal, wireless healthcare innovation in San Diego has spilled across the border to Tijuana, Mexico, to help prevent and treat diabetes. The recently announced Dulce Wireless Tijuana
AT&T to market WellDoc mobile diabetes app
In August, WellDoc, a Baltimore-based developer of disease management technology, became one of the first companies to receive FDA approval for a mobile healthcare product, an analytics system for
iPhone 4 woes, competition don't deter app developers
Pay attention to the news about technology and mobile devices, and you might think Apple is losing its grip on the market. Apple begrudgingly acknowledged problems with the iPhone 4's antenna --though
Nationwide Children's sees higher testing, medication adherence with texting to teen diabetics
If any age group has shown a clear preference for texting, it's teenagers--half of whom reportedly send more than 1,500 text messages a month. So it makes sense that SMS might be a great way to
FDA approval of mobile diabetes tracker may herald era of 'personal health management'
Two weeks ago, we reported that WellDoc had received FDA approval to sell DiabetesManager, a remote monitoring system for patients with Type 2 diabetes. We didn't think too much of it, burying the
Companies seek FDA approval of wireless, implantable diabetes monitors
One of the knocks against all this great, new home-monitoring technology is that there hasn't been enough scientific evidence of back-end savings to justify the added up-front expense. Slowly, that's
Cell phones help with inner-city diabetes management, but long-term prospects uncertain
We've reported extensively on how cell phones can improve the health of underserved citizens in many impoverished countries. The same principles are being applied much closer to home, in low-income,
Telehealth in developing countries may require change in Western med schools
About 80 percent of the population of Nepal live outside Kathmandu, but 90 percent of the country's doctors are in the capital city. Electricity is spotty, the government is somewhat unstable and
WoHIT: Communication, information sharing called key to telemed success
Telemedicine has been an important part of radiology in Europe for more than a decade, and the technology has proven itself as a way of reaching patients in rural and remote areas, of increasing
Study: Parents of diabetics intrigued by phone-based glucometers
Nearly 70 percent of parents of children with diabetes have a "very positive" impression of a prototype mobile phone that collects and transmits blood-sugar readings to doctors, a new study suggests.
