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		<title>Norway grants $9.9M to mHealth Alliance for maternal health</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/16577/norway-grants-9-9m-to-mhealth-alliance-for-maternal-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) has committed $9.9 million to the mHealth Alliance to help it create grant competitions for innovative mobile health services that aim to improve women and children&#8217;s health. Maternal health has been an area of focus for mHealth services: Text4Baby, a free, SMS-based health service for new and expectant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS taps Text4Baby to up Medicaid enrollment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[appointment reminders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare announced plans to leverage the Text4Baby SMS-based initiative to increase enrollment in Medicaid and the Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Text4Baby currently counts about 300,000 users of its free health tips via text messages for pregnant women about pregnancy and infant care. The Text4Baby program first launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Text4Baby helps employers promote maternal health tips</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/16164/text4baby-helps-employers-promote-maternal-health-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HHS Text4Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maternal health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Text2Quit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[White House CTO Aneesh Chopra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Text4Baby has partnered with Benz Communications to develop a maternal health &#8220;toolkit&#8221; for employers that aims to help them promote the Text4Baby service and other maternity benefits to employees.
Text4Baby is a free, SMS-based health information service for new and expectant mothers. It is available in both English and Spanish.
Here&#8217;s how the (former) White House CTO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Esther Dyson-funded startup gets $400K</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/15043/esther-dyson-funded-startup-gets-400k/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HealthRally, a San Francisco-based startup that uses crowd-sourced financial incentives for fitness motivation, has raised $400,000 from prominent angel investors, according to a report at TechCrunch. Those investors include Esther Dyson, CEO of EDventure Holdings as well as Richard Sass, Ty Danco, Isy Goldwasser, and Jeff Thiel.
HealthRally combines financial incentives and social networking by creating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey finds Text4Baby effective in San Diego</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/14713/survey-finds-text4baby-effective-in-san-diego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Text2Quit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A preliminary study of Text4Baby&#8217;s impact found that the service made an impact, according to a new study from researchers at UC San Diego Health System&#8217;s Department of Reproductive Medicine and the National Latino Research Center (NLRC) at Cal State San Marcos University.
Text4Baby is a free, SMS-based health information service for new and expectant mothers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS: EHR data to be used in Text4Baby study</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/13940/hhs-ehr-data-to-be-used-in-text4baby-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An upcoming efficacy study by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the Text4Baby SMS service will make use of electronic health records (EHR) data, according to an announcement in the US Federal Register.
Text4Baby is a free, SMS-based health information service for new and expectant mothers. Text4Baby launched in February of 2010 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS launches SMS smoking cessation services</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/13296/hhs-launches-sms-smoking-cessation-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week two new SMS smoking cessation programs, QuitNowTXT and SmokeFreeTXT, as part of their Text4Health initiative. The programs, a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, are aimed separately at adults, and teens/young adults, respectively.
HHS formed the Text4Health Task Force in November 2010 to provide recommendations for HHS&#8217; role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alere to exclusively offer Voxiva&#8217;s Text2Quit</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/13070/alere-to-exclusively-offer-voxivas-text2quit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voxiva, creator of Text4Baby and Text2Quit, announced this week an agreement with Alere Wellbeing&#8217;s smoking cessation program Quit For Life to exclusively merge their services into one offering.
Voxiva’s Text2Quit launched in June. The service makes use of text messages, emails and the web along with evidence-based best practices from the Surgeon General and peer-reviewed studies. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to effectively use SMS for teen weight loss</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/13007/how-to-effectively-use-sms-for-teen-weight-loss/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/13007/how-to-effectively-use-sms-for-teen-weight-loss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[child obesity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study of overweight teens published in the journal Obesity reveals the most effective ways text messages could be used to encourage healthy behavior change in adolescents, reports the LA Times.
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, who believe tailored text messages could help teens adopt healthier lifestyle changes. Four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Apricot Forest become the Epocrates of China?</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/11711/could-apricot-forest-become-the-epocrates-of-china/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/11711/could-apricot-forest-become-the-epocrates-of-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apricot Forest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opportunity for mobile health services in China is huge. China has 95 million people with diabetes. It has 170 million people with hypertension and 3 million more each year. The country also has some 165 million people with heart disease.
China also boasts an estimated 900 million mobile phone users. A minority of them are smartphone [...]]]></description>
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