Results of a pilot study of a mobile app meant to improve medication compliance among chronically ill, low-income patients are mixed but encouraging, the pilot's facilitators announced at an event MobiHealthNews attended in Washington, DC this week.
The study, funded by a grant from Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach initiative and conducted at the George Washington University Medical Center, found that a...
The San Diego-based Alliance Healthcare Foundation (AHF) announced late last month that the winners of its 2010 Innovation Initiative grant competition of more than $1.2 million were Social Interest Solutions (SIS) and the San Diego Text4Baby Coalition. Both groups worked to improve access to health and social services for San Diego's medically underserved population.
AHF granted SIS $800,000 to...
A recently launched mobile phone-enabled diabetes management and prevention pilot in Tijuana, Mexico has brought together a number of companies and organizations from both sides of the border.
The program, called Dulce Wireless, is a collaborative effort between Qualcomm, the International Community Foundation (ICF), the Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, Iusacell, the Social Security...
During an educational session at CTIA Enterprise & Apps in San Francisco last week, Alex Brisbourne, president and COO of Kore Telematics, a wireless M2M company said that in 2008 health-related products made up about 1 percent of new business for his company. In 2010 he estimates healthcare will account for about 23 percent of new business, according to a report from Wireless Week. Companies...
