Mobile health tools: They're plenty in number, but most are just not secure.
One Dartmouth computer science professor and researcher is working to change that. David Kotz, champion international professor in Dartmouth's computer science department - who said he never intended to work on mHealth security - is now doing exactly that, leading a research project to address an area often...
The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the Ebola virus transmission, and public health agencies are declaring that an mHealth initiative deserves much of the credit.
Omobola Johnson of Nigeria, Photo: ITU/C.Pha 2013
Shortly after the WHO declared Africa's most populous country Ebola-free for 42 days Oct. 20, Nigerian Minister of Communication Technology Omobola...
Technology giant IBM has aligned with a mobility solutions provider and a university to build an acute care system for critically ill patients.
To be built in conjunction with the University of Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care and San Antonio-based AirStrip, the mobile early warning systems will leverage IBM's streaming analytics technology and draw upon structured and...
When it comes to venture capital, consumer-focused technologies - including mobile and telehealth - walked away with the lion's share: 65 percent of all VC cash for the third quarter of 2014, or $623 million across 140 deals.
That’s up from $678 million across 100 deals during the second quarter, according to consultancy Mercom Capitol Group.
Telehealth, in fact, had its best quarter to date,...
In what appears to be a first, the Ochsner Health System in New Orleans has successfully integrated Apple’s HealthKit with its Epic EHR.
The six-hospital health system’s integration efforts with Apple's new health platform, which serves to aggregate consumers' health data from myriad health applications into the EHR, began with a pilot program earlier this year that monitored heart failure...
There have been many wars among technology stalwarts. Apple, IBM and Microsoft have fought operating system battles, skirmishes on the database front and, of course, the continuing browser wars, to name just a few. Now the technology giants are arming themselves for combat in the mobile health realm.
The latest: Microsoft has lined up two partners to combine mHealth technologies and begin testing...
Imagine, if you will, that all in-person doctor and patient encounters were conducted virtually. It’s easy to understand that scenario would save money, but how much?
Towers Watson puts that at a jaw-dropping $6 billion.
The worldwide professional services firm’s estimate, however, could only be realized if all U.S. companies' employees and their dependents ditch face-to-face physician and urgent...
With the unveiling of a new clinical operating system for medical devices, BlackBerry is once again making a play for mHealth.
QNX Software Systems, which was acquired by BlackBerry in 2010, has released a new operating system that's billed as being IEC 62304-compliant. With its sights set on alleviating the regulatory and financial burden for device manufacturers, the operating system supports...
A new service has been launched to help healthcare providers gain the upper hand on cyber attacks.
HITRUST, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, will conduct monthly cyber threat briefings and alerts for the healthcare industry. The briefings are slated to kick off in April and will be held online.
In addition, due to a surge in the number of security attacks in...
The outlook for the global mHealth market is very promising, a new market report says, with the industry poised to exceed $49.1 billion by 2020.
According to San Francisco-based Grand View Research, monitoring services are projected to remain the dominant and most rapidly growing market segment, with revenue topping $1.2 billion in 2012, and seeing a nearly 50 percent CAGR from 2014 to 2020....
