Mhealth program Archives

Mobile health technology can help diabetes prevention

08/11/201608/10/2016 L. Green

Text messages may be enough to encourage people to change their behaviors in healthful ways. A recent study showed text messages sent through mobile health technology such as smartphone SMS, tablets and apps may help in diabetes prevention. These messages can make recommendations about healthful behaviors. Examples include when a person should exercise, how to eat the right amount of fat, and to eat more fruits and vegetables. Those behaviors are all very important – particularly when combined – to reduce the risk of diabetes. The study was conducted by…

Mhealth clinics to head to some Indiana schools

01/01/201412/30/2013 Julie Campbell

This new mobile program will be set up in the school parking lots in Muncie in 2014. Open Door Health Services is sending mhealth clinics will be providing medical service at the Longfellow and Sutton elementary schools, in addition to Wes-Del schools, as a part of a program that will be starting in March 2014. This news was recently released by Tony Estep, the CEO of Open Door Health Services. The first announcement of these mhealth clinics was made by Estep in January 2013, after the Open Door center received…

Mhealth system from NZ to trial in Thailand

07/17/201307/15/2013 Stephanie Beck

The Vibhavadi Hospital is about to pilot a program to test its effectiveness for its employees and patients. A recent announcement has just revealed that the mHealth +3 platform from Vensa Health will now be tested by the Vibhavadi Hospital in Bangkok as a part of a trial of the New Zealand company’s system which is supposed to be able to generate millions in annual savings through the considerable reduction in missed appointments. Patients will be able to use text messages in order to confirm appointments, making sure that there…

Mhealth project to provide assistance to regions of New Zealand

06/10/201306/08/2013 Stephanie Beck

The people of Otago and Southland will soon be benefitting from this new initiative in their areas. A new initiative using mhealth technology has been designed to provide assistance across the regions of Otago and Southland in order to better bring together General Practice and the patients for whom they are providing care. The new system is meant to provide a number of services directly to the patient in order to ensure better care. Southern PHO, with Southern DHB’s support, has contracted a company named Vensa health in order to…

Mhealth program in Thailand uses app to collect medical data

05/23/201305/22/2013 John Montgallo

This application will provide health data to a hospital and university for better and more accurate understanding. Saraphi Hospital and Chiang Mai University (CMU) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, have developed an mhealth app that is designed to provide users with a survey that will allow those health organizations to gather and digitize medical data from the residents of the district. The application is called “Saraphi Health”, which is a central element of a three year project. The application and the mhealth project of which it is a critical element, receives…