Tag: smartphone health tools

Mhealth program in Mexico designed to assist pregnant women

John Montgallo
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At risk women of gestational diabetes now have access to a new service to assist them with the condition. Up to 18 percent of women in Mexico will contract gestational diabetes during their pregnancies, and a new mhealth program has now been released to provide those women with assistance and education about the condition. This new health care effort is uses basic text messaging technology to help spread awareness. It is a combined effort between the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and Project HOPE. They have come up with an mhealth program…

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mHealth expected to play an important role in health care reforms

Jesse Collins
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Mobile technology will take a prominent place in the new more digital infrastructure. Experts are predicting that mhealth will be one of the most important ways in which the healthcare infrastructure will be changing over the next few years. This involves the use of smartphones, tablets, and other connected devices as medical resources. The founder of The Digital Health Center, David Lee Scher, MD, has said that the current resources that are in place will be placed under a great deal of strain when the health care reforms are put…

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