Best Android medical apps for physicians
Author: Satish Misra, MD
Aum Cardiovascular’s Cadence analyzes heart sounds, ECG to screen patients for heart disease
Aum Cardiovascular has received FDA clearance for Cadence, a device that uses acoustic and ECG signals to non-invasively screen for heart disease.
Best new medical apps of the week: Reducing risks for IV drug users, virtual reality to demonstrate new tech, and symptom tracking for Tourette’s
This week’s list features some interesting additions including a virtual reality app demonstrating new imaging technology and an app to help IV drug users reduce risky behaviors.
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: Personal health record for Colorado Medicaid patients, new rheumatology app, and more
This week’s best new medical app include a new personal health record app for Colorado Medicaid patients, a new rheumatology reference app, and more
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.
FDA poised for big changes on regulation of digital health
FDA Director Scott Gottlieb has announced big changes in how the FDA approaches digital health, including plans for third party certification.
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.
Human API partnership will use digital health data to screen for life insurance
Human API, an aggregator of health data from EMRs to Fitbits, will work with LexisNexis to help insurers evaluate people for life insurance.
Latest Dreamit classes includes startups focused on care access, diabetes complications
Among the 8 startups included are groups helping patients get access to care and providing home monitoring with thermal imaging for diabetes complications.
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
Omada digital health diabetes program shows good results in recent study
In this observational study of patients who used Omada’s digital diabetes platform, users saw improvements in weight, diabetes control, and more.
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.
FDA clearance for CANTAB Mobile app that helps screen for Alzheimer’s and cognitive impairment
CANTAB Moblie is an app that delivers a validated screening tool for Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment through a administered, iPad based test
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.