A Pennsylvania-based company has just released a healthcare management application that targets multiple sclerosis patients to the App Store. David Warden, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2008, created an application called i-inject that allows fellow patients to manage details of their healthcare.

Electronic health tools could help improve drug adherence and reduce medication errors among elderly populations, according to a report from the Center for Technology and Ageing, as per reports. Of the three billion U.S. prescriptions issued each year, about 12% are never picked up and about 40% are taken incorrectly, according to the report.

Mobile devices offer an opportunity to improve care and reduce medical costs, according to a new re-port by the Brookings Institution. The Washington Post report - titled, "How Mobile Devices Are Transforming Healthcare" - outlines some recent findings about the mobile health market.

The mHealth Alliance and the Stop TB Partnership have released a report outlining ways that mobile health technology could be used to combat tuberculosis.

Wireless connections have outpaced wired implementations in most parts of the world. The penetration of mobile devices in hard to reach geographies, has given the stakeholders in healthcare a reason to adopt this technology for delivery of healthcare. mHealth is quickly emerging as a channel that drives accessible, real time and efficient healthcare delivery.

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.

PharmaSecure is the market leader for mobile authentication technology that empowers the end consumer to check and authenticate his own medicine by SMS, voice or web. Each medicine package coded by PharmaSecure has a unique, randomly generated alphanumeric code printed directly on the package.

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.