Take Home: UMass Medical School and WPI have developed an app that can detect atrial fibrillation. This moves connected and mobile health closer to reality. The really important development with this approach might allow us to treat patients who have AF intermittently (paroxysmal) differently than we currently do. Because we are worried about stroke, patients now get blood thinners all the time because we are concerned that they will have recurrences without knowing about it. With this technology, in the future, we might see validation of a strategy that allows use of blood thinners when patients are in AF only, sometimes called a pill in the pocket.
The mobile healthcare has not yet come up and still is in the initial levels in most of the countries. mHealth has seen a lot of failures so far, but still shows potential to be beneficial for general masses. There was a randomized control trials conducted in Uganda to assess the impact of a mobile phone-driven health service for the poor.
Cashing on the m-health trend PharmaSecure is all set to launch psConnectTM-a mobile health (mhealth) platform that enables a variety of providers to offer m-health services to targeted groups of patients. Each medicine package coded by PharmaSecure has a unique, randomly generated alphanumeric code printed directly on the package.
Dorland Health has a new report titled Social Media in Healthcare: The Modern Link to Effective Patient Engagement and it is approved for continuing education credit. Mobile health is one of the topics.
First posted on Kaiser Health News on 8/1/12 There is a corner of the health care industry where rancor is rare, the chance to banish illness beckons just a few mouse clicks away and talk revolves around venture deals, not voluminous budget deficits. Welcome to the realm of Internet-enabled health apps.
Trackurhealth has been designed to solve all such issues being faced by any Thalaseemia patient. Using this application, patient can easily communicate with their doctor whenever they want.
The mHealth Alliance and the Stop TB Partnership have released a report outlining ways that mobile health technology could be used to combat tuberculosis.
A new study from a Boston-based company that provides telephone care management reports that a targeted program cut medical costs, mostly by reducing hospitalizations