Author: Satish Misra, MD
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DARPA program seeks to monitor soldiers’ health with passive smartphone data
DARPA’s program will use only passively collected data from mobile devices to monitor the health of soldiers.
Best new medical apps of the week: Diagnosis challenge from UPenn, new oncology guideline app, and more
This week’s best new medical app include some popular FOAMed resources, an interesting diagnosis challenge app from UPenn, medication adherence apps, and more.
Best New Medical Apps of the Week for iPhone and iPad
Hundreds of new medical apps hit the app stores every month. We’ve sorted through them to pick the most interesting new medical apps.
Best new medical apps of the week for iPhone and iPad
Hundreds of new medical apps hit the app stores every month. We’ve sorted through them to pick the most interesting new medical apps.
Verily announces the Study Watch, a research focused smartwatch Study Watch
Verily recently announced the launch of a new smartwatch called the Study Watch that will be focused on use in medical research studies.
UK National Health Service relaunching health app library along with developer toolkit
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service announced this week the launch of both the NHS Digital Apps LIbrary and a Mobile Health space for developers.
Medable launches Cerebrum, a cloud-based machine learning platform for health apps
Medable’s Cerebrum is a cloud-based machine learning tool for health apps to help generate actionable insights from ever growing volumes of health data
Study: Digital health interventions for kids effective, especially when family engaged
Reviewing 36 studies with 30,000 patients, researchers found that digital health interventions seemed to deliver benefits for kids.
Popular health apps for personal, fetal heart rate monitoring fined by NY attorney general
The New York AG announced settlements with three popular health apps – Cardiio, Runtastic, and Matis – over accuracy claims that weren’t backed by evidence.
Dept. of Defense awards Clemson $1.2 million grant for mobile diabetes management
The grant will support a one year study to test mobile health technology for management of diabetes, specifically to support patient management.
Not feeling well? Patients can ask HealthTap’s Dr. AI, through Amazon Alexa, what to do next
HealthTap has announced plans to bring their new Dr. AI platform, an artificial intelligence powered “virtual physician,” to Alexa.
MIT & GlaxoSmithKline launch flu tracking app Flumoji
Flumoji helps users track symptoms & share that information with researchers working to improve disease surveillance.
Georgia Tech designs digital health platform for VA to pull in data from anywhere
Digital health platform that integrates data from practically anywhere, where EMRs like Epic or VistA or Healthkit enabled apps.
IBM World Community Grid project tackles childhood cancer in new project
Smash Childhood Cancer will leverage the World Community Grid to rapidly screen candidate drugs for use in childhood cancers.
Penn Medicine launches a new Center for Digital Health
Penn Medicine’s Center for Digital Health will, among other things, have an early focus on leveraging social media to improve health.
Doximity Dialer app is a useful tool when you’re on call
Doximity Dialer is an easy to use app that lets you make calls from your cell phone but pick the number that shows up on caller ID.
Penn Medicine launches ResearchKit app for sarcoidosis
Researchers from Penn Medicine have launched a new ResearchKit app for sarcoidosis that will build a digital cohort of patients with this rare disease.
Stanford launches Center for Digital Health, offers grants to test Apple Watch
Stanford’s new Center for Digital Health will promot research & industry collaboration, including seed grant program to test Apple Watch in medicine.
St. Jude issues security patch for vulnerabilities in cardiac device remote monitoring platform
The FDA and St. Jude recently announced a security patch for their Merlin@Home remote monitor for cardiac devices including pacemakers and ICDs.
ResearchKit app MyHeart Counts launches version 2.0 featuring new Coaching Module & more
The latest version of MyHeart Counts features a coaching module that will test different aspects of the ResearchKit app’s design to maximize impact.