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Study: Apps may help med adherence, even for technologically uninitiated seniors

By Jonah Comstock 09:37 am May 22, 2014

A randomized control trial of 99 elderly, Spanish patients suggests that a tablet app can improve medication adherence, even in patients with no prior experience with the internet, smartphones, or tablets. The study was published recently in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. "With the growth in use of tablets and smartphones, various interventions have been designed to improve adherence...

7 hospital apps Boston Children's made in-house

By Aditi Pai 06:20 am July 26, 2013

While Boston Children’s Hospital’s Chief Innovation Officer Naomi Fried has called for others to build more hospital apps in the past, her team is also working to bring new ones into operation at Boston Children's through an innovation program. She outlined about half a dozen of such projects during a talk at a mobile health event in Boston this week. Fried stressed that there is an overabundance...