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"The global market for mobile health products and services is expected to approach $23 billion by 2017, and much of the growth will not happen in the U.S. but rather in less-developed countries, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers," MobiHealthNews reports. Read Original Content
Developing nations are adopting mobile health technology at a faster pace than developed countries like the U.S., according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Healthcare Finance News reports. Read Original Content
According to the Worcester Telegram, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Memorial Medical Center have developed a prototype iPhone application that detects if the user has atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in the world and puts the patient at high risk for developing a stroke, typically from an embolic event. Read Original Content
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A new report, entitled “The Role of mHealth in the Fight Against Tuberculosis,” details a variety of projects that have shown the effectiveness of using text messages and automatic call-backs on patients’ phones as means of communicating important notices that help sufferers adhere to medication regimens. Read Original Content
AirStrip Technologies is teaming up with Palomar Health to launch a vendor-neutral platform that would allow healthcare providers to access a wide range of patient information sources from smartphones and tablets. Read Original Content
Care transitions technology provider Axial Exchange has acquired mRemedy, a mobile health app company formed by the Mayo Clinic and DoApp in late 2009. Read Original Content
A new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers revealed that 42 percent of payers, compared to 25 percent of physicians, encourage patients to let doctors monitor their health and activities using mobile health services and devices. Additionally, 42 percent of doctors surveyed worry that mobile health will make patients too independent. Read Original Content
mHealth apps are just the beginning of the disruption in healthcare from open health data. Read Original Content
Health IT specialists will soon want to know more about a field called geo-medicine, which combines geographic information system (GIS) software with clinical databases to provide insights that might improve individual and population health. Read Original Content
Check out these five ways digital apps and smartphones will transform healthcare. Read Original Content
DestinationDoc is a new app that helps you find the best doctors when traveling, all over the world. Read Original Content
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