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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 app for bipolar individuals wins award

07/10/201307/10/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

The mobile health challenge chose the MoodRhythm application as its top prize winner. A mobile health app designed to assist people who have bipolar disorder to gain a more thorough understanding of their personal rhythms has now won the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge, which comes with a prize of $100,000. The challenge was created to help to enhance the multichannel approach to health and care. It was co-sponsored by Heritage Provider Network, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Open mHealth. The challenge was designed to help to spawn an…

Mhealth wanted by one in three patients

06/25/201306/24/2013 Stephanie Beck

According to the results of a recent study, one third of people would like to communicate with their doctors over mobile. A new poll conducted by HealthDay and Harris Interactive has shown that owners of smartphones and tablets are already keen to use mhealth services over those devices in order to help them to interact with their physicians. However, the demand for mobile health services is outpacing the number of providers ready to offer. Though many patients are already using their smartphones for sending messages and finding useful information online,…

Mhealth pilot study surprises with low healthcare worker uptake

06/13/201306/11/2013 L. Green

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The program was run in rural South Africa within a treatment program for MDR-TB with poor participation. An article published in PLoS Medicine has revealed that a new mhealth app designed for healthcare workers who work in a rural South African treatment program for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has failed to generate uptake by those employees. The report indicated that the data gleaned from this pilot could provide important lessons for scaling of these initiatives. The Mobilize mhealth app provided standardization for the tracking and recording of MDR-TB patients through the…

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…