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Mhealth app could provide meaningful medical assistance

Jennifer Goula
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A new application designed by two doctors from South Africa could help with patient assessments. Two doctors have created an mhealth app that has been designed to help overburdened and over-stressed nurses and EMS healthcare workers to be able to better assess the needs of patients in South Africa emergency centers. The doctors, from Cape Town, are named Yaseen Khan and Mohammed Dalwai, from the Open Medicine Project of South Africa. Their mhealth application has been named the “Mobile Triage App” and it has been created so that emergency medical…

mHealth has the confidence of 96 percent of patients

Sam Lambert
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The vast majority of survey participants expressed that they feel that this technology will improve their lives. The results of a Research Now Group Inc. survey have now been released, and they have shown that nearly all patients are optimistic enough about mhealth that they feel that it will provide an improvement to their lives. The research involved the participation of 500 healthcare experts as well as 1,000 users of mobile health apps. What this study determined was that 46 percent of the medical professionals who responded to the survey…

The mhealth market will grow by 47.6 percent by 2020

Julie Campbell
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This, according to an analysis that has been published by Grand View Research on the global marketplace. Grand View Research has released a report that predicts that the global market value for mhealth will rise by a CAGR of 47.6 percent from where it was in 2014, to where it will be by the close of 2020. This would suggest that by that final year of the forecast, the mobile health industry will be worth $49.1 billion. The primary category within the mhealth market is expected to remain as monitoring…

Mhealth technology could improve concussion detection

Julie Campbell
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Emerging mobile health tech could also assist in the management of this medical condition following head trauma. Concussion detection and treatment, in addition to its prevention in the first place, is becoming a new medical specialty field, and mhealth technologies are working to help to support the goals of improving overall diagnosis and treatment capabilities. This condition brings together everything from sports medicine to neurology and tech advances have been moving quickly. As much as mhealth and other medical technologies have been moving forward at leaps and bounds, there remains…

Mhealth mobile app claims are often misleading

Julie Campbell
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A recent study has shown that a notable percentage of health applications make promises they can’t keep. A study was recently published within the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension (JASH), which showed that fourteen percent of some hypertension mhealth apps that are available for Android devices through the Google Play Store were misleading when it comes to the claims that they made about their tracking ability. The researchers that conducted the mobile app study were from the Cambridge Health Alliance. Leading the team of researchers was Nilay Kumar…