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NewsCDC 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, Read more...
Mobile sensors help track H1N1 transmission patterns
Last winter's outbreak of the H1N1 "swine flu" virus caused a lot of consternation and panic among the public, and left many an epidemiologist and physician scrambling for credible information to Read more...
iPhone app delivers drug alerts, enables adverse event reporting
When it comes to improving patient safety, we say the more incremental steps, the better. File in this category MedWatcher, a new, free, interactive iPhone app to provide real-time surveillance of Read more...
App developers take HHS, IOM up on their data-mining offer
Just two months ago, HHS and the Institute of Medicine started the Community Health Data Initiative to encourage IT developers to mine vast storehouses of publicly available health data. Some already Read more...
CompuMed to provide EKG, telemedicine to California schools
Remember when the school nurse could do little more than take temperatures, check for sore throats and patch up playground scrapes? Well, some school infirmaries in California are about to go Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: HHS, IOM ask private sector to create apps from government data storehouses
HHS and the Institute of Medicine are joining forces to share public-health data in hopes of spurring development of smartphone apps, social media and other IT tools for health improvement. The two Read more...
Mobile public-health surveillance app passes 1,000 users
In keeping with the international theme of this issue, we learn from the World Health Organization that EpiSurveyor, a free program for personal digital assistants and mobile phones that aids in Read more...
RFID tracks infant pneumonia in Pakistan
We've written frequently about the increasing use of mobile technology to provide basic health services in developing countries, but often we're talking about nothing more advanced than text Read more...
iPhone app tracks swine flu outbreaks
There are so many new healthcare-related iPhone apps sprouting up each week that we can't possibly write about all of them, but one really jumped out at us--possibly because of who's behind it, but Read more...
Mobile technology could help contain a flu pandemic
With wireless technology so ubiquitous in society today, you'd think that someone would figure out a way to set up field clinics and triage units to respond to, say, an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, Read more...
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