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Starbucks mobile app is headed for a massive upgrade

04/11/201604/10/2016 Jennifer Goula

The popular café chain intends to invest a considerable amount of money into improving its application. Starbucks has become exceptionally popular as a coffee chain and over recent years its mobile app has played a huge role in its ability to differentiate itself from the rest of the increasingly crowded café market. In terms of its success with mobile payments, it is virtually unparalleled and is often seen as the ultimate success story. Starbucks has moved exceptionally strategically and has already poured a massive effort into creating an extremely functional,…

Mhealth prize goes to pain management app creating students

12/18/201512/16/2015 L. Green

Students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology have come in second with the C-Pain Go application. The second place prize from mHealth 2015 has now been given to students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH), who created a smartphone app designed to help to manage their pain. The C-Pain Go mobile app was designed to set multiple pain tracking reminders for users. The idea behind this mhealth app is to use smartphone technology to make it possible for patients to…

Mobile health app educates Ethiopian moms

11/24/201511/22/2015 Julie Campbell

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The “Safe Delivery App” offer mothers across the country vital and potentially lifesaving advice. A new mobile health app has now been launched in Ethiopia in the hopes of improving the survival and medical wellbeing of moms and their new babies by offering lifesaving strategies when things take a turn for the worse. Nearly 9 in 10 Ethiopian births occur at home following pregnancies with limited or no medical assistance. The hope of the developers of the Safe Delivery App is that this mobile health service will improve the level…

Yahoo Weather mobile app alerts users to impending precipitation

08/25/201508/22/2015 Julie Campbell

The application will provide a warning fifteen minutes ahead of the arrival of rain or snow. Yahoo has recently announced that it is updating its Weather mobile app to provide alerts to people around the world in order to warn them when their area is expected to receive rain or snow within the next quarter of an hour. Though there have been several changes to the weather app, it is the alerts that is the most notable. This latest mobile app update will mean that Yahoo Weather users will be…

Patient mhealth adoption relies on doctor recommendations

06/29/201506/27/2015 Jesse Collins

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Recent research has shown that physicians may be the key driving force behind this technology. It may feel as though mhealth technology is getting off to a pretty good start on its own, but when it comes to the recommendations – or even discussions – of mobile and wearable tech by doctors, a recent study has shown that only 15 percent of physicians are actually talking about it as a tool to help to improve overall or specific wellness. This could be holding back the adoption of mobile health technologies…