San Francisco hospice launches app to educate, assist doctors
San Francisco-based Hospice by the Bay, the second oldest hospice care facility in the nation, has introduced an app to help physicians refer patients to end of life care. “If you look at the overall...
View ArticleAzumio integrates its apps into Argus, an all-day tracker
Palo Alto-based Azumio, makers of the popular Instant Heart Rate app and a number of other mobile health apps, launched a new free app called Argus, which aggregates readings from many of Azumio’s...
View ArticleGoogle’s picks for top 20 paid health, fitness apps
Two months ago, MobiHealthNews looked at the fitness apps that Apple recommends to consumers in its app store, pointing out that, at the time, standalone fitness apps were doing better than the apps...
View ArticleHow private is data on health and fitness apps?
Recently, MobiHealthNews wrote about the number of fitness app installs expected to grow to 248 million in 2017 from 156 million in 2012, a 60 percent rise. While more consumers are downloading health...
View ArticleHealth, fitness devices to make up half of all wireless accessories shipped...
Shipments of app-enabled smart wireless accessories will approach 170 million by the end of 2018, compared to over 18 million this year, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Wireless...
View ArticleCigna integrates MyFitnessPal into coaching program
MyFitnessPal announced a partnership with health insurance company Cigna, which will combine MyFitnessPal’s nutrition, physical activity and weight management resource with Cigna’s health coaching...
View ArticleNew apps evaluate cosmetic product safety
Two apps — one recently released and one upcoming — are tackling cosmetic safety, providing consumers with easy access to data about the chemicals they put on their skin, using barcode scanners to make...
View ArticleDigitas Health: Patients whose doctors use apps use more apps themselves
Patients of doctors who use mobile apps in the exam room are more likely to use apps themselves, and more likely to switch medications, according to a new study from communication firm Digitas Health....
View ArticleIMS: Half of Android health apps have fewer than 500 downloads
There are more than 43,000 healthcare apps available from the US iTunes store, but only about 16,275 of those are patient-facing apps with “genuine” health content, according to a new study from the...
View Article12 percent of care may soon be delivered remotely
Patients may start spending less time in the doctors office as electronic health records and patient-facing medical apps proliferate, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...
View ArticleApple’s picks for best new health apps of 2014
A few weeks ago, MobiHealthNews published a slideshow of 27 mobile health tools for tracking food, a majority of which were apps. The slideshow included many new and old apps that aimed to keep users...
View ArticleReport: Virtual care communication revenues will reach $13.7B in 2018
Twenty eight percent of US broadband households have used some type of virtual care communication tool and nearly 20 percent of smartphone and tablet owners use an app to track or manage their fitness...
View ArticleNearly half of Kaiser Permanente’s members use My Health Manager
Around 4.4 million members in health system Kaiser Permanente’s 9.1 million member network are using Kaiser’s online health management platform, called My Health Manager, according to a Kaiser’s 2013...
View ArticleHealth app market to reach $6.7 billion by the end of 2014
The mobile health market is expected to be valued at $6.7 billion by the end of 2014, according to a report from research firm Visiongain. London-based Visiongain defines mobile health as “the practice...
View ArticleSurvey: 9 percent know what a health wearable is
As a GfK survey found earlier this year, just 6 percent of UK and US consumers currently own a wearable device, but according to mobile industry association MEF’s recent survey of 15,000 consumers in...
View Article90 percent of consumers want some government oversight on health apps
Around 90 percent of young people think there should be some governmental regulation and oversight for digital health apps, according to a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia survey of 3,000 consumers....
View ArticleSocialWellth acquires health app certification company Happtique
New York City-based Happtique, which had developed a health app certification and “prescription” platform, has been acquired by SocialWellth for an undisclosed sum. Happtique was a wholly owned...
View ArticlePwC predicts “DIY Healthcare” will be the top trend of 2015
“Do-it-yourself healthcare”, including mobile apps and consumer medical devices, is set to be the top healthcare trend of 2015, according to research and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC...
View ArticleHow can health wearables reach health app adoption levels?
The ePharma Summit in New York City this week was a veritable smorgasbord of new mobile health data. Monique Levy shared some new data (and insights) from Manhattan Research, Tom Jones from Makovsky...
View ArticleHealth, fitness connected device services market to hit $1.8B by 2019
Juniper Research predicts that connected healthcare and fitness device services will produce $1.8 billion in annual revenues by 2019, according to a new report, a sixfold increase from 2015, which has...
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