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Two small studies published results recently that found health-tracking smartphone applications can improve the patient's health.
One study, published in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, found that people with spina bifida, a spine condition, who used a smartphone app to track their health improved their daily self-management of the condition....
Futura mHealth, a Philadelphia-based joint venture from Futura Mobility and HGE Healthcare Solutions, a Temple University spin off company, has developed an app the company says can reduce hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by 38 to 40 percent.
A chronic lung condition, COPD manifests itself as occasional attacks of extreme shortness of breath, called...