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Report Provides Overview of Market Potential and Risk for Passive Sensors

The California Healthcare Foundation has issued a report on what it calls the early phase of development and adoption of passive sensors in patient care outside the hospital. The report…

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17-Year-Old mHealth Developer Honored by Intel

Among the 40 finalists for the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search is a 17-year-old high school senior who is working on a mobile phone platform that will allow for low…

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NSF Funds Passive Smartphone-based mHealth App

The NSF is funding a “mobile personal health consultant” being developed by researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology. The difference between this technology and most of the thousands of other…

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VCs Invest $213m in mHealth During Q3: YTD Total Hits $707m

In the third quarter of 2012, mHealth companies received $213.3 million in venture capital bringing the year to date total investment in the sector to $707 million according to data…

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West Health Invests $4.25 in Kinect-based Technology

The West Health Investment Fund recently invested $4.25 million in Reflexion Health, Inc., a startup known for licensing Microsoft Kinect for Windows-based physical therapy software created at the West Health…

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UCLA Uses iPads for Chronic Disease Monitoring Program

UCLA has launched a program that allows patients with inflammatory bowel disease to track their symptoms and interact with their medical team via iPad. Patients use an interactive program on…

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Smart-Bath Mat Detects Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Last month we wrote about a new technology from Orpyx Medical Technology that uses shoe inserts to detect peripheral nerve damage in diabetic patients. Now comes a bath mat to…

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AT&T, Alere Team up to Provide 24/7 Diabetes Monitoring

AT&T is partnering with Alere Health to help diabetes patients better monitor their glucose levels and other vital signs. Participants in the program, who must be adults with type 2…

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When the “Grey Area” Between Medical Device, Consumer App is Just Fine

Is the $1.99 iPhone Cardiograph a medical device or a consumer app? The FDA will presumably let us know soon enough. But in the meantime it may not matter. It’s…

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mHealth Defined

eHealth; Digital Health; HCIT; iHealth; Mobile Health; mHealth
The lexicon around wireless-enabled health-related products is evolving almost as fast as the technology itself.
About 10 years ago, eHealth emerged as…

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