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After Boston: Disaster response in the age of smartphones
Watching the horrific images of the bombing attacks at the Boston Marathon last week, like many, I sat transfixed on my television screen and more than anything was struck by the heroism and...
CDC to examine smartphones for collecting health behavior info
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proposed a feasibility study to evaluate the use of smartphones to collect information about health behaviors. Specifically, the CDC will examine...
The future of mobile technology in healthcare
FierceMobileHealthcare spoke with medical professionals and technologists at four mobile-savvy organizations to learn how they're making mHealth an integral part of their current clinical milieu. In this special report, you'll learn about how they currently are using mHealth applications, both here and abroad, to shape the future of mHealth. Read the report
Smartphone-based pain management trial results ambiguous
A study of women with chronic widespread pain only exhibited "modest" evidence supporting the long-term effect of a smartphone-based intervention, according to an article in the Journal of ...
BYOD practices by healthcare workers pose security risks
Nearly 89 percent of U.S. healthcare workers use their personal smartphones for work purposes, finds a Cisco partner network study . However, when it comes to security, the study found that 41 percent...
Smartphone-based heart study sets goal of one million participants globally
Leveraging the worldwide proliferation of smartphones, University of California-San Francisco researchers have launched an online cardiovascular study to develop new ways to predict and prevent heart...
House hearings underway on mobile health regulations
Continuing to pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on whether it intends to regulate smartphones, tablets and mHealth apps as medical devices under the Affordable Care Act, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began a three-day series of hearings on Tuesday to examine how such regulations would impact patients, physicians and developers.
Physician, interrupted: Docs disrupted by mobile devices
A new study from researchers in Norway has found strong evidence that interruptions from mobile devices are a problem for doctors in hospitals, and that a solution to reduce such interruptions is desperately needed.
Smartphone interventions can help manage chronic pain, study says
Smartphones can be effective platforms in helping women with chronic widespread pain, according to an article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research about a recent Norwegian study.
Few use technology to track health despite growth of self-management tool industry
Seven in 10 U.S. adults track health indicators, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project--and a growing number are using technology to do so.
