mHealth Applications

Key Features of mHealth Apps & Trends in Use

by Anuja Vaidya

mHealth applications have become ubiquitous in the healthcare industry, spanning a wide array of disease states and use cases. There are more than 350,000 health-related apps available on top app stores worldwide, with more than 90,000...

ATA, Others Release Digital Health App Assessment Framework

by Anuja Vaidya

A newly developed framework aims to provide physicians and patients with a process for assessing digital health technologies, including mobile applications and web-based tools. Released by the...

Rating System for Health-Related Smartphone Apps May Be Beneficial

by Mark Melchionna

A rating system can help lead clinicians to a smartphone application that can benefit certain patients by winnowing the exhaustive list of available apps down to a few for clinicians to consider,...

UT Health San Antonio to Expand Access to Substance Use Disorder Support App

by Anuja Vaidya

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is expanding the availability of the WEconnect Recovery app to people in Texas suffering from substance use disorders. The app will be...

mHealth App Doubled Screenings at Family, Internal Medicine Practices

by Mark Melchionna

A self-administered screening on a tablet device is a highly effective method for identifying patients with depression, risk of injurious falls, or intimate partner violence, research from Wake Forest...

UNC Gets $2.8M to Study Impact of Personalized Messaging on Weight Loss

by Mark Melchionna

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $2.8 million to the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, which will be used to examine the impact of adding personalized messaging to its weight...

Low Proportion of Older Adults Are Using Health Apps

by Mark Melchionna

As health monitoring technology becomes increasingly innovative, a new survey from the University of Michigan (U-M) finds that older adults who could enormously benefit from these services do not show...

Key Elements of Top Mobile Patient Portal Apps

by Anuja Vaidya

With the advent of online retail and e-banking, consumers have become accustomed to using their computers and phones to perform a wide range of tasks. This increase in mobile use provided two critical opportunities for healthcare: improve...

WVU Medicine to Deploy Virtual Diabetes Care App for Employees

by Anuja Vaidya

West Virginia University Health System, or WVU Medicine, is partnering with digital health company Virta Health to offer its virtual diabetes treatment to eligible employees in the state. With this...

Lack of mHealth Technologies Disrupts Workflows for Hospitalists

by Victoria Bailey

User-centered mHealth technology and applications could help reduce burden and increase the efficiency of workflows for hospitalists, according to a study published in JMIR Human Factors. Hospitalists...

mHealth App Improves Patient-Provider Communication During Pregnancy

by Victoria Bailey

An mHealth application could help identify pregnant people at-risk for preeclampsia and increase prophylactic low-dose aspirin intake through improved patient-provider communication, a study from the...

Amazon Enhances Alexa for mHealth Platforms in Hospitals, Senior Homes

by Eric Wicklund

Amazon is ramping up its connected health platform with new services designed to expand Alexa’s capabilities in healthcare organizations and senior living facilities. Offered through the Alexa...

Digital Therapeutics Stakes its Claim to the Fast Growing mHealth Marketplace

by Eric Wicklund

The Consumer Technology Association has created standards for the use of digital therapeutics in an effort to define and establish value for the mHealth platform. “The biggest challenge in the...

DiMe, FDA, Amazon Eye Best Practices for Sensors in mHealth Devices

by Eric Wicklund

The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) is collaborating with the US Food and Drug Administration and some heavy hitters in the technology market to develop best practices for integrating mHealth sensors...

AtlantiCare Adapts to Consumer Healthcare With a Digital Directory

by Eric Wicklund

The key to success in today’s business world is online presence, and that’s no different in healthcare. A healthcare organization needs to have an appealing and convenient entry to virtual...

HHS Launches Spanish Version of mHealth App, Boosts Care Access for Latinos

by Victoria Bailey

The Department of Health and Human Services has introduced a Spanish version of its mHealth app to improve healthcare access for Latinos and help patients prepare for in-person and telehealth...

Biogen Joins UCLA’s mHealth Project to Gather Cognitive Data From Devices

by Eric Wicklund

An mHealth project launched in 2020 to track depression on Apple devices is expanding to measure mental health status, including cognitive decline. The University of California at Los Angeles...

Arizona Hospitals Use mHealth to Connect With Patients in the ED

by Eric Wicklund

Four Arizona hospitals and two free-standing emergency health centers have launched an mHealth platform that gives patients and their families real-time updates on their mobile devices about wait times...

FTC Emphasizes Security Standards for mHealth Apps, Devices

by Eric Wicklund

The federal government is strengthening efforts to ensure than mHealth apps and connected devices protect personal health information. The Federal Trade Commission this week issued a policy statement...

mHealth Wearables Detect Pandemic-Related Stress in Healthcare Workers

by Victoria Bailey

Mount Sinai researchers used wearable devices to monitor physiological effects in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that high resilience and emotional support are linked to a...

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