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Mobile health apps aren’t helping the people who most need them

12/14/201612/12/2016 Sam Lambert

New research has shown that these applications aren’t necessarily doing what they were designed to accomplish. Mobile health apps have the opportunity to transform the way Americans receive health care. The vast majority of U.S. adults carry smartphones. People who have chronic conditions or other complex health requirements have considerable mobile device resources available to them. However, a new study revealed that these health focused apps are falling short in several ways. The research looked into the reach and effectiveness of mobile health apps. What was found was that app…

Mobile health app from St. Jude brings in $4.4 million from NIH

09/27/201609/24/2016 Jesse Collins

The application is being designed to help sickle cell anemia patients with their medication adherence. The world famous St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital will receive $4.4 million for six years for the use of a mobile health app. The money is being awarded through a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The mobile app will be integrated by a team of experts from several different medical organizations. The team is made up of various healthcare experts from…

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

mobile health pregnant expectant mothers

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…

Mhealth use may assist in heart disease prevention

08/25/201508/22/2015 L. Green

Mobile health technology could help patients to be able to reduce their risks of cardiovascular illness. A new statement released by the American Heart Association (AHA), which was published in the Circulation journal has shown that mhealth technologies may be able to help to enhance the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This may occur as a result of being able to target certain types of lifestyle behaviors conducive to CVD prevention. The publication was authored by Lora E. Burke, Ph.D., from the University of Pittsburgh. Burke and her colleagues looked…