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Mhealth potential identified by drug trials company

06/05/201406/03/2014 Jennifer Goula

A pharmaceutical testing firm has found that mobile health could greatly improve patient monitoring. Exco InTouch, a firm based in the United Kingdom that assists in the testing and clinical trials of new drugs made by pharmaceutical companies, has identified considerable potential from mhealth technology as it works on growth within its marketplace. That company is now using mobile health tech in order to monitor patients participating in clinical trials. Over the last six years, the company has reported an increase in its turnover from being a few hundred thousand…

Mhealth receives support from EU Commission

05/23/201405/21/2014 Sam Lambert

The hope is that it will become very helpful part of the treatment of chronic diseases. In a considerable effort to slash health care costs, the E.U. Commission is now placing its support behind the use of eHealth and mHealth technologies and applications, particularly when it comes to their uses for the treatment of chronic illnesses. The European Commissioner for Health has now made a call for an improved use of technology in the sector. The Commissioner, Tonio Borg, is hoping to be able to promote an improved use of…

Mhealth grants to be issued by the NIH

04/28/201404/26/2014 L. Green

The National Institutes of Health are now hoping to boost research and tools geared toward improved communication. A pair of grants is now being offered by the National Institutes of Health in order to help to encourage research and creation of mhealth tools that will help to improve the communication between patients and their medical providers. The goal is to increase the adherence of patients to the recommendations made by their doctors. The NIH is hoping that with these grants, they will be able to send mhealth solutions into the…

Mhealth is enhancing doctor and patient interaction

02/04/201402/01/2014 Stephanie Beck

Through the use of mobile health technology, the collaboration is notably improving. Among the many determinations that were made at the most recent Mobile Healthcare Summit, the ability to use mhealth technology is giving patients and doctors an improved opportunity for interaction. This is helping to make healthcare more cooperative and could give patients a better opportunity for health. According to one of the participants in the summit, Dr. Kendall Ho, the eHealth strategy office director at the faculty of medicine at UBC, and who is also among those who…

Mhealth tools employed regularly by 51 percent of doctors

01/31/201401/28/2014 Julie Campbell

Research is showing that more than half of all physicians are using tablets for mobile health. According to a survey that has been conducted by Kantar Media, tablets are becoming the tablet of choice for doctors as more than half of them are reporting that they use mhealth tools on a regular basis. These hand held and convenient computers are being used for a number of different mobile health purposes. Doctors that participated in the survey reported that they were using mhealth over tablets for reasons such as reading the…