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Mhealth tools can help patients to locate the best doctors

05/08/201405/06/2014 Jorge Gonzalez

Locating the right physician or specialist can be challenging, but improve search tools are available on smartphones. A new mhealth service has now been launched that is designed to help patients to be able to more quickly and easily search for the right doctors for their unique needs, expectations, conditions and locations. This is meant to help patients to overcome one of the largest struggles in obtaining proper health care. The problem of locating the right doctor is hard enough for the average person, but patients who have complex or…

Mobile app may be helpful in overcoming alcoholism

04/03/201403/31/2014 Julie Campbell

A recent study has indicated that individuals recovering from alcohol abuse may benefit from this application. The results of a study that was recently conducted have shown that a mobile app that is geared toward keeping people sober when they are recovering from alcohol abuse, have shown that users of the application tend to cut back on the number of days that they fail to remain sober. The smartphone app was designed to help recovering alcohol abusers to abstain. The research showed that the people who used the mobile app…

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 initiatives are proving especially helpful within the Hispanic population

08/15/201208/14/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

This is particularly true regarding increased prescription compliance. Spanish online wellness portal, HolaDoctor, is working with mobile enterprise company, 3Cinteractive, and have developed an mhealth plan for physicians to better reach out to the growing population of Hispanic individuals in the United States. This will allow this ethnic group to better benefit from their Affordable Care Act health coverage. According to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, this new mhealth tool will give doctors the ability to implement their own types of mobile initiatives in an effort to more…

The power of mhealth technology for improving patient care

06/24/201206/25/2012 Stephanie Beck

Bringing mobile technology and medical science together in an intelligent way. A number of mhealth tools are starting to slowly work their way into mainstream use for patients, such as a blood pressure cuff that connects to a smartphone, a blood glucose meter for iPod touch of iPhone devices, and an app that alerts people when it is time to take their next dose of their medications. The medical community is reminding patients to look for mobile tools that are supported by solid clinical research. It is, after all, one…