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Kaiser Permanente launches comprehensive patient app My Health Manager app for iOS

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KP recently announced the launch of its iOS health management app, available free of charge in the Apple iTunes store.

New York Digital Health Accelerator opens to packed house

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The New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) held their coming out party on May 10th in NYC, hosting a packed house at TimesCenter, not to mention hundreds of interested onlookers via live streaming video. I had the opportunity to interview David Whitlinger, Director of the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), about the program’s origin and how it will nurture the companies it selects. “… now you can have an entrepreneur who has a great idea for a software application, but [Read more]

Ryan Luce presents Corengi’s solution for clinical trial patient engagement

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Ryan Luce presents Corengi’s solution for better engaging patients in clinical trials at Healthbox investor day.

Embedded sensors help parents monitor infants

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Rogers Communications, a Canadian digital cable, high speed internet, and home/mobile phone service provider, recently announced it is forming an alliance with Exmovere Holdings Inc. This U.S. based company is a biomedical engineering company focused on government and consumer applications for healthcare, security and mobility. The mission of Exmovere Holdings is to develop systems and technologies that make machines more intuitive, help families take care of each other, and give hope to the disabled. Together, these two companies are planning to launch [Read more]

EveryMove closes $2.6 million round, investors see potential in health rewards platforms

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EveryMove raises $2.6 million from Sandbox Industries to build a “mileage plan for health benefits” using passive data collection from smartphone apps.

Check out this week’s #mHealth Tweet Chat archive

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This is the archive of the third #mHealth Tweet Chat that took place on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 9pm EST/8pm CST. We discussed how mobile technology has impacted physician communications, patient privacy issues, and physicians on social media.

Cell phone lab strip reader another great innovation from Ozcan lab at UCLA

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The most recent smartphone attachment developed by Ozcan’s lab is a digital “universal” reader for all rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), such as home pregnancy tests, even drug and STD tests, which require no translation of the results

#mHealth chat tonight on Twitter

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Please join us for the third #mHealth chat on Twitter on Wednesday, May 16th at 9pm EST/8pm CST using the hashtag #mHealth.

Watch the DataDesignDiabetes Challenge Demo Day Live Wednesday May 16th #DDDemoDay

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Sanofi-Aventis sponsored Data Design Diabetes Challenge will live broadcast demo’s from its five finalists Wednesday 5/16 live on their website.

New medical training app being developed by game developers for DARPA

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Video and computer games are something that most children living in the developed world have been exposed to. From the early days of Super Mario on the Nintendo Entertainment System, to the engrossing, cinematic-like titles that are part of today’s game consoles and computers, gaming is something that is familiar to many. Because of this, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to tap into this gaming expertise to apply the interactive techniques found in video games to create an educational app that can be used on mobile devices that will specifically teach medical first responders.

SwipeSense presents their Hygiene 2.0 solution at Healthbox Investor Day 2012

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SwipeSense co-founders Yuri Malina (@ymalina) and Mert Iseri (@mhi) present their vision for clinical hygiene 2.0.

New Patient Safety Government App Challenge

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently opened a new app challenge focused on patients safety appropriately called the Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge. The challenge stems from a 2011 Institute of Medicine Report, The Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, which among other things, recommended voluntary adverse event reporting using a format developed by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.