Android medical dictionary promises to save $2,300 per doc
Following the same notion that speech recognition technology vendors have had about medicine needing customized electronic dictionaries to handle the specialized vocabulary, a British company is...
View ArticleFDA clears Nephosity iPad app for diagnostic imaging
Nephosity, a San Francisco-based startup, has joined the swelling ranks of companies to receive Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a mobile medical imaging app. The FDA has...
View ArticlePrototype iPhone biosensor detects viruses, bacteria, toxins, allergens
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a versatile iPhone-based biosensor that, with about $200 worth of parts, is just as accurate as a $50,000 laboratory...
View ArticleApple gets tough on medication dosage apps
Apple’s review process for the apps angling to get into the AppStore has long been a pain point for developers. This week physician-led medical app review site iMedicalApps pointed out that a number of...
View ArticleFollowing FDA clearance Glooko relaunches mobile diabetes management offering
Starting next month Medicare patients with diabetes who receive their diabetes testing supplies via mail order may or may not notice any changes, but after negotiating prices down, CMS is set to start...
View ArticleFDA clears Reflectance’s muscle oxygen saturation, tissue acidosis sensor
This month the FDA cleared Westborough, MA−based Reflectance Medical’s noninvasive, peel-and-stick sensor for measuring muscle oxygen saturation (SmO2) and pH (pHm), an indicator of tissue acidosis....
View ArticleAlabama state health department releases mobile app
The Alabama Department of Public Health has become possibly the first state health department to have a public mobile app. The department last month quietly released Apple iOS and Android versions of...
View ArticleSlideshow: 10 patients apps from US children’s hospitals
One trend that emerged while researching MobiHealthNews’ most recent report, 205 Hospital-branded apps for patients, was that children’s hospitals are far and away the most creative and ambitious of...
View ArticleInfographic: 205 Hospital-branded apps for patients
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View ArticleUK startup develops Bluetooth measuring system for ostomy bags
Patient empowerment often is about taking care into one’s own hands. Usually that means making a lot of noise or at least asking a lot of questions. Less common is the entrepreneurial path in search of...
View ArticleiTriage co-founders depart Aetna two years after acquisition
A little more than two years after Aetna acquired popular mobile health app-maker iTriage, its cofounders — two emergency medical doctors — Peter Hudson and Wayne Guerra have quietly left the health...
View ArticleIn-Depth: 200 medical apps every hospital marketer should know
About nine months ago — in September 2013 — the MobiHealthNews team published results from an exhaustive search of Apple’s AppStore and the Google Play store for apps that were developed by or on...
View ArticleIndependa gets $2.8M in funding for tablet, TV-based senior health platform
San Diego-based Independa, which has developed a telehealth platform for seniors, has raised about $2.8 million in its second round of funding, according an SEC filing. The company announced part of...
View ArticleFDA makes clear it won’t regulate apps like Apple’s HealthKit
As MobiHealthNews noted last week in the introduction to our In-Depth report on Apple’s Health app feature set, the FDA made a rare move on Wednesday by adding a new description for a type of mobile...
View ArticleUtah health system Intermountain launches patient app
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare has released its second patient-facing app, called Intermountain Health Hub. The app, available from both the iOS AppStore and the Google Play store,...
View ArticleListrunner raises $500,000 for physicians’ rounds app
Mountain View-based Listrunner raised $500,000 for its newly launched app, which helps physicians stay organized while doing their rounds, according to a post from VentureBeat. The app puts patient...
View ArticleFDA clears military-tested PTSD, brain injury assessment app
Last week the FDA granted 510(k) clearance to a mobile-based cognitive test called DANA (Defense Automated Neurobehavioral Assessment), which helps healthcare providers better assess the medical or...
View ArticleTelcare raises $32.5 million for cellular-enabled glucose meter, to expand to...
Bethesda, Maryland-based cellular-enabled blood glucose meter company Telcare has raised $32.5 million led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from Mosaic Health Solutions and existing...
View ArticleWebinar: Digital health tools for physicians and nurses that fit their workflow
In just a few short years smart mobile devices have become indispensable tools for clinicians. As device adoption peaks for providers, a growing number of digital health tools are now literally at...
View ArticleReport: Most health insurers have few apps, few downloads
Seventy percent of health insurance companies have published only one or two apps and 67 percent of those companies have achieved less than 100,000 downloads on the apps they do have, according to a...
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