Palo Alto-based HealthTap has released a ranking of health, wellness, and medical apps based on the public endorsements of thousands of doctors who use the HealthTap AppRx platform. Although not every doctor in HealthTap's network participated and those that did didn't see all the apps, the system is designed to give each app equal exposure and to minimize bias on the part of physician reviewers...
American Red Cross has launched a blood donor app that makes it easier for people to track their blood donations and schedule new ones. The app is available on iOS and Android devices.
“As the nation’s single largest supplier of blood and blood products, the Red Cross is uniquely positioned to bring this cutting edge technology to blood and platelet donors,” Red Cross Biomedical Services...
Twenty percent of American adults have turned to mobile apps for information during an emergency or disaster situation, the same as from a local utility or government's website, according to a recent survey from the American Red Cross. That makes mobile apps the fourth most-popular source of emergency information.
While apps trailed significantly behind the top three – TV news, local radio...
Mobile health is showing up at the top of a lot of lists lately.
Ahead of next week's United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil -- better known as Rio+20 -- Mashable columnist Zoe Fox has outlined five reasons why "mobile is the future of sustainable development." No. 1 is disease response.
Fox highlighted one of many mHealth projects underway in sub-Saharan Africa, a Hewlett...
