"Mobile health is not about healthcare and mobile phones; I think that's a misconception. It's healthcare that is available anytime, anywhere, wherever you need it, whenever you need it. It's healthcare that can be accessed by whatever you have, be it your mobile phone, be it your television, your radio, or your iPod. That's the kind of healthcare that we are talking about."
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Text4Baby Mobile Services Gives New Moms Health Updates
What every mother wants for Mother’s Day: healthy children. A free mobile service called Text4Baby sends breaking health information to new and expecting mothers.
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The Rise of the Imagesphere: The Web's Next Big Thing
This presentation focuses on the rise of the imagesphere, or the visual Web led by social networks like Pinterest and increasingly interactive imagery.
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Does IBMs new patent spell trouble for health apps? | mobihealthnews
About 12 years ago engineers at IBM began to sketch out an idea for a weight loss application that rewarded employees for eating healthy food, according to a recent report in the New York Times. The article follows the story of the patent IBM secured late last year for this long-awaited healthy eating rewards application.
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Tablets Set To Outpace Smartphone Online Traffic
The share of Web site traffic on tablets grew more than 300% in the past year, according to research released Tuesday. Tablets' share of Web site traffic will exceed smartphone traffic by early 2013, reaching 10% of total Web site traffic in 2014.
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Diabetes App Boosts Teens' Glucose Control Performance
Teenagers using a new diabetes management app called Bant measured their glucose levels 50 percent more often than teens who didn't, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR).
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Debate: Can mobile apps achieve what pills can't? - FierceMobileHealthcare
In a pair of point-counterpoint articles at Forbes, contributors Dave Chase and David Shaywitz face off on the question of whether mobile apps could someday be more effective than prescription drugs--a response to health app company Happtique's plans to build a platform for physicians to "prescribe" apps to their patients.
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Mobile Now Accounts for 10% of all Internet Usage Worldwide
Mobile now accounts for 10 percent of all Internet usage worldwide, after the rise in demand and ownership of smartphones and tablets saw the proportional use of the mobile Web more than double over the last 18 months.
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Rock Health Report: Why Personalized Health is Not Just for Pharma
Personalized medicine frequently refers to the incorporation of genomic and molecular profiling data into pharmaceutical treatment of diseases such as cancer. But personalization is a market trend that is applicable beyond medical treatment of disease: it is a model that can be applied to a broad range of consumer health products and services, and companies–from Fortune 500s to startups–are taking notice. Rock Health looks at this trend more closely in its most recent Rock Report, Taking Health Personally: Personalization as a Consumer Health Trend.
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Smartphones Are Mom's New Babysitter - eMarketer
Mobile devices are increasingly used as a mother’s helper when her kids are bored. Research shows that moms, anxious to keep their offspring quiet and occupied, share their smartphones with children as young as age 1.
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