Best Android medical apps for physicians
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Tips on supporting your health app after it hits market
If you’re developing a health app, your work doesn’t end with release. Here are some tips and pearls on managing your health app after it hits the market
Medical apps 301: Delivering content through a web server
We look into how you can design a medical app that uses a web server to deliver frequently updated information to your users.
New guide helps developers protect patient data in health apps
A recent guide can help health app developers take a more systematic approach to protecting personal health data.
Physicians use Fitbit heart rate data to manage a patient’s atrial fibrillation
The FitBit Charge HR, a wrist-mounted activity tracker, was “interrogated” to help manage a patient with new onset atrial fibrillation after a seizure.
ASMA medical meeting app is a great example for other healthcare events
Most conference have a medical meeting app are really common but not always that useful. Here’s an example of one that gets it right.
Apple’s Swift on Android could simplify health app development
Recent reports have suggested Google could be soon adopting Apple’s Swift programming language, which could have big implications for health apps.
Popular Android blood pressure apps are useless and even harmful to patients
The majority of the top blood pressure apps in Google Play are junk apps & some could even put patients at risk.
Veterans Affairs offers free health apps and developer tools
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been one of the most active proponents of digital health.
Crowdsourcing medicine: turning to a community of “medical detectives” for a diagnosis
Patients are turning to online communities of individuals, some with medical training but many without it, for help in diagnosing medical conditions & for treatment advice.
Fitbit accuracy lawsuit highlights issues for clinicians prescribing fitness trackers
Consumer lawsuit over Fitbit accuracy makes claims about health harms of which physicians should be wary.
Lessons from developing the REDCap app, a tool used for research worldwide
Insights from building an app for a leading medical research platform, REDCap
Medical app design for clinicians, how to make sure your app actually works
A crash course on medical app design and how to make sure your medical app actually works.
Clinician’s guide to HIPAA & data security in medical app design, part 2
Our second article in this series for physicians and healthcare professionals, focusing on how medical apps share data.
Physician hiring app uses “Uber method” to disrupt billion dollar Locums industry
App tries to challenge the billion dollar Locums industry.
NHS Health Apps Library closing amid questions about app security & quality: what can we learn?
After a troubled two years, the UK’s National Health Service is closing its Health Apps Library. What can we learn from that experience?
Medical Apps 102: Understanding how your medical app can store and access data
Continuing our series on medical app development for healthcare professionals, we’ll break down your app based on functionality.
Medical App 101: A Beginners Guide to the World of Health & Medical Apps
A guide for physicians and healthcare professionals on the basics of building a health or medical app.
Studies show a big disconnect between health apps’ ratings and the quality of those apps
There is a growing body of evidence that app store user ratings of a health app are totally unrelated to the quality and effectiveness of medical apps.
Health app improves behaviors in recent randomized controlled trial
This randomized controlled trial provides much needed evidence that lifestyle apps can impact health behaviors.
Using your institutional journal access when you’re outside the hospital
Here’s how to use your institutional access to get to your favorite journals directly and for free.