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Breezing metabolism tracker offers smartphone-based indirect calorimetry

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
Apr 04, 2013 by
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Breezing, a startup spun out of Arizona State University, offers ability to perform indirect calorimetry.

Google Keep productivity app arrives to compete with Evernote

Mar 29, 2013 by
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Google Keep arrives after the fall of Google Reader. Featured as a new productivity app, with the ability to create notes and audio recordings, the question becomes how will it compare to Evernote?

A new wristband measures hand washing compliance by healthcare providers

Mar 28, 2013 by
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An RFID-reading, motion-sensing wristband called Hygiene Helper, buzzes to tell healthcare workers if they are washing their hands properly or not.

A request to Dropbox & Evernote from Physicians, please add PDF annotation

Mar 26, 2013 by
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A feature that many medical professionals are pining for, PDF annotation within DropBox and Evernote

Body Implant uses mobile networks to detect potential diseases

Mar 25, 2013 by
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Swiss scientists have developed a tiny, portable personal blood testing laboratory that sends data through mobile phone network

UpToDate mobile access shows Apple dominating Android in Physician use

Mar 25, 2013 by
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Data provided by UpToDate, one of the most popular tools used by Physicians, shows Apple dominating the market when compared to Android.

Identifying medication side effects through the power of internet searches

Mar 21, 2013 by
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A recent study utilized search queries to determine the relationship of drug interactions between paroxetine and pravastatin. This type of inquiry could be expanded with current FDA monitoring of drug interactions and adverse effects.

CDC invites Plague Inc. app developer to talk about his games impact on public health

Mar 20, 2013 by
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The developer of Plague Inc. has been invited by the CDC to speak on his games applicability to building awareness of disease to the public.

The iPhone is now a handy tool for detecting and diagnosing parasites

Mar 20, 2013 by
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Visiting doctors to Tanzania recently created an effective and cheap method of diagnosing parasites in children. The device they hobbled together costs around $8 to assemble and uses commonly found items.

An exciting search engine that helps diagnose rare medical diseases, called Find Zebra

Mar 19, 2013 by
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A phrase that every medical student has heard during their training is, “When you hear hoofbeats, don’t expect to see a zebra”.  This basically mean you should try to focus on the “obvious”, and not chase rare diseases if the “obvious” makes sense. In medicine, there can sometimes be a tendency to chase and diagnose rare pathology because it’s “sexy”.  We are trained against this because we can cause harm by over-testing and if your final diagnosis makes sense, and [Read more]

Should you consider prescribing Facebook to older patients?

Mar 18, 2013 by
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A graduate student from the University of Arizona, Janelle Wohltmann, is studying whether Facebook use can improve older adult cognitive performance and make them feel more socially connected. Her preliminary findings show that after using Facebook, older adults performed about 25 percent better on tasks designed to measure their ability to continuously monitor and to quickly add or delete the contents of their working memory, also known as “updating”.

The movement to start evaluating blogging and tweets on par with academic publications

Mar 14, 2013 by
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In a recent publication in Nature, Heather Piwowar layed out the possible idea of valuing research outside of ‘publications’ but also including ‘products.’ However, what do these products include?