A recent perspective from the Imperial College in London describes ways to promote app safety.
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Best free ICD 10 apps for iPhone and Android
Most ICD 10 apps are horrible, but we found 4 free ones that are great to use.
Pfizer launches smoking cessation research app
Pfizer is doing research with a smoking cessation app used with medications.
NIST releases guide to securing health data accessed on mobile devices – tips on how clinicians can help
Includes ways users put health data at risk , offers a reminder on what clinicians can do to help prevent data loss
Study: Not using prescribed health tracker may be a sign of higher readmission risk
For patients given a Fitbit after hospital discharge, those that either didn’t track or intermittently tracked were more likely to be readmitted.
How to avoid FDA regulation for your medical app
Determine if your medical app will require FDA regulation.
Clinical Pattern Recognition: Low back pain physical therapy app review
Physical therapy app for low back pain.
Can clinical notes determine a patient’s suicide risk?
Do unintentional words written by clinicians signal whether a patient’s at risk for suicide?
MIT joins the party with another new digital health research institute
MIT plans to turn their Hacking Medicine program into a nonprofit focused on evaluating & testing digital health technology.
ResearchKit app shows high levels of enrollment and engagement on iPhone
Initial data from Apple’s ResearchKit platform shows high levels of engagement.
Study: Text messaging may be a better way to perform surveys
A study in PLoS One compared text message based surveys to traditional surveys, finding some interesting advantages with texting.
Activating nearby Good Samaritans through their mobile phone improves delivery of CPR
Automated, mobile phone based system can help get critical early CPR to patients with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.