Framingham Heart Study

Roundup: Framingham Heart Study, Bill Gates, 2013 trends

By Aditi Pai 05:00 am November 30, 2013

This week MobiHealthNews covered UCLA's partnership with smart cane startup Isowalk, rounded up 51 digital health metrics for 2013 and reported on a UK startup's Bluetooth measuring system for ostomy bags. This was just some of the news that has come out recently. Here are some other pieces we have been reading. The Next Frontier in Heart Care -- Wall Street Journal The Framingham Heart Study and...

Azumio, AliveCor, iHealth enable UCSF's Health eHeart study

By Brian Dolan 11:45 am March 20, 2013

Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) this week announced the launch of the Health eHeart Study, which is leveraging mobile health apps and connected consumer medical devices in an effort to track and monitor 1 million people in real-time. The study received significant attention this week thanks to a report in the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). What's been largely...