This article focuses on a session presented by the National Institutes of Health entitled “State of the Science in Research on Mobile Health Technologies.”
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The best of iMedicalApps – the digital textbook, prescription apps, and more
Greetings valued readers! This is the second installment of our bi-monthly summaries of our favorite posts (difficult to choose) as well as the posts we feel were best received by you, our readers. Our increase in the amount of information that we give to you means that you may not always have time to read everything we post in a given month. We are proud to be able to provide you quality app reviews and the latest mHealth news, so without further delay, here are our second round of favorite posts for February:
Can kids improve their own health? Results from a study of smartphone use in juvenile diabetes
As discussed in part 1, in our development of a next-generation remote patient monitoring system, we elected to develop a chronic disease remote monitoring system based on a smartphone that would allow the automatic wireless transfer of measurements from medical devices (e.g. weight scales, blood pressure monitors, glucometers, etc.). Read below to see how this worked when we targeted the hardest group of all: kids. Specifically, adolescent kids.
Can patients improve their own health? Results from a study of smartphone use in diabetes and hypertension
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mHealth Summit – Striking insights on remote monitoring for patients with cardiovascular disease #mHS11
Review of the key points from a mHealth Summit 2011 session, the future of mHealth in cardiovascular disease, with a focus on remote monitoring.
