In June 2013 Jawbone, makers of the UP fitness tracking bracelet, quietly acquired San Francisco-area startup Nutrivise for an undisclosed sum -- MobiHealthNews broke the news last summer. Now, more than a year later, Nutrivise's founder and Jawbone's nutrition and food-focus product manager Laura Borel has helped bring some of the Nutrivise app's features (and a few new ones) to the Jawbone UP...
A new research paper published in the Journal of Participatory Medicine, “Exploring Everyday Health Routines of a Low Socioeconomic Population through Multimedia Elicitations,” examines the ways mobile phones can influence healthy behavior in low socioeconomic environments where chronic diseases are common due to poor health.
The study attempts to illuminate how limited income, lack of...
