Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 23, 2014

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Connected Globe News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Cyber Security News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here!

Dr. Aydogan Ozcan, a UCLA engineering professor, has created software and hardware that turn cellphones into microscopes and diagnostic machines. With the addition of a 3D-printed microscope, a field worker in Africa can quickly scan the blood of an HIV patient to see how the virus is reacting to medicine.  Read Original Content

Mobile developer GreatCall , which makes both smartphones and applications, and artificial intelligence company Automated Insights said they are partnering on a health app that helps caregivers stay informed on the well-being of aging family members.  Read Original Content

Medidata has completed a method development project conducted in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline to evaluate the impact of combining mobile health devices with cloud-based technologies in a clinical trial.  Read Original Content

B2M Solutions’ mobile software delivers valuable insight and actionable analytics for enterprise customers. Business leaders and managers within the mission critical, rugged mobile enterprise now have operational views of key business and technology analytics affecting performance and productivity. B2M software is developed with specific functionality to help organizations identify and unblock mobility problems as soon as, or even before, they occur, allowing customers to sustain critical business processes and gain competitive advantages. To Lean more visit www.B2M-Solutions.com.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by B2M Solutions

As the U.S. population continues to age, the demand for remote patient monitoring, video telemedicine and mobile health will intensify, predicts Frost & Sullivan.  In particular, telehealth video conferencing, whether over PCs or mobile devices, will become an accepted method of providing primary and specialty healthcare services.  Read Original Content

In March the European Commission published its green paper on mobile health, which contained some mind-boggling statistics.  It suggests 97,000 apps are on sale in the mobile health sector, which includes tracking apps but also apps that help patients make appointments and keep track of medication.  Read Original Content

Mobile health and fitness app startup Nudge recently launched Nudge Coach, a HIPAA-compliant tool it says allows health professionals to analyze consumer data from health wearables by organizing the data in one spot.  Read Original Content

Targeting the exploding health and wellness market, Microsoft has launched a new cloud-based platform, mobile app, and wearable fitness tracking wrist band.  Called Microsoft Health, the platform allows users to store health and fitness data collected through a Microsoft Health app.  Read Original Content

A recent report published by Research2Guidance, indicates most major pharmaceutical companies have had trouble generating downloads for their health-related apps and even when they do, have trouble getting users to continue using their products.  Read Original Content

Staff shortages and reductions are driving sales of patient monitoring systems, according to Kalorama Information. The healthcare market research publisher said the market for advanced patient monitoring is expected to reach 29 billion by year-end and will grow at a rate of nine percent for the next four years.  Read Original Content

A new report by Berg Insight shows three million patients worldwide are connected to some form of remote monitoring device at home and monitored by a professional caregiver. In four years, it projects that figure to top 19 million.  Read Original Content

Latest Articles on http://mobileenterprisestrategies.blogspot.com

Gamification Strategies and Mobile Applications - The Way it Should Be
2015 Enterprise Mobility Events Announced
Insights into the Impact of Big Data, Mobile Apps and Code Halos Strategies on Retail
Transforming Web Content for Enterprise Mobility
Mobile Expert Interviews: Snappii's CEO Alex Bakman
Mobile Expert Interviews: Red Hat's Mike Piech
Big Data Business Models and Code Halo Strategies with SmartStory's CEO Michael Boerner
Digital Transformation Expert Interviews: SmartStory's Lloyd Mahaffey

Webinars of Note (recorded)

Virtualization ≠ Mobilization

Whitepapers of Note

A Comparison of the StarMobile MORPH Protocol vs. Traditional Remote Computing Protocols
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization

StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps
Test Automation to Boost Velocity without Compromising Quality
Why Apps Fail - Find Out the Top 3 Reasons

************************************************************************

Kevin Benedict

Writer, Speaker, Senior Analyst

Digital Transformation, EBA, Center for the Future of Work Cognizant

View my profile on LinkedIn

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Browse the Mobile Solution Directory

Subscribe to Kevin'sYouTube Channel

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Join the Google+ Community Mobile Enterprise Strategies

Recommended Strategy Book Code Halos

Recommended iPad App Code Halos for iPads

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 18, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Nearly 247 million mobile phone users around the world are expected to download a health app in 2012, according to Research2Guidance. Read Original Content

A new benchmarking study by research firm Cutting Edge Information advises life science companies to create more relevant content when developing mHealth apps by better understanding end-users’' current mobile trends. Read Original Content

EHRIntelligence reported mobile health adoption among patients is booming, with 53 percent of U.S. adults in possession of a smartphone, and just over half of those users accessing medical information from their devices. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

The Mobile Health Application market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 40.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is increasing adoption of smartphones and social networking sites. Read Original Content

The Pew Research Center, in a new report titled Mobile Health 2012, found that 52 percent of smartphone owners referenced health information on their palm-sized, microcomputers. That compares to 6 percent of owners of regular cellphones. Read Original Content

According to researchers, 62 percent of doctors use a tablet in some shape or form and 71 percent of nurses use a smartphone at work. The mHealth industry is forecast to be $11.8 billion market by 2018. Read Original Content

Automatic Data Processing, a business outsourcer that offers payroll, tax and benefits processing applications, has announced an upgrade to its AdvancedMD practice-management health care app for the iPad to allow doctors to capture billing charges on the Apple tablet. Read Original Content

Smartphones may soon be harnessed for monitoring patients with heart failure, offering advantages such as remote assessment and early prediction of decompensation. A recent survey suggested 88 percent of physicians would like to be able to monitor measures of their patients’ health status at home. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Rates of mobile health app adoption among American adults with mobile phones hasn't budged much since 2010, according to a new survey from the American Life Project. The portion of mobile phone carrying adults with health-related apps for tracking their health remains around 10 percent. Read Original Content

More people than ever are using a cell phone to get health information. The share of mobile users doing so has gone up to nearly a third from 17 percent two years ago, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Read Original Content

App developer Castle + Anderson recently released SimMon, a tool that simulates a remotely controlled patient monitor. The app runs on an iPhone or iPad and can help train clinicians as they learn to track changes in blood pressure, oxygen saturation and heart rate. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

A spokesperson for the Red Cross told MobiHealthNews that the average daily count for Red Cross apps in October was 369 downloads. The average number of downloads per day between October 25 and October 30 was about 66,000. Read Original Content

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to develop an application so its healthcare providers can access medical images stored in its VistA electronic health record system via mobile devices. Read Original Content

The majority of medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom use smartphones and health-related mobile applications, according to a study published in the journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Read Original Content

According to a recent report from iData Research, the U.S. patient monitoring market was valued at over $3.1 billion in 2011 and will grow to almost $4.2 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

A new app for iPhones and iPads has been launched that works as a reference for radiographic positioning. The app was created by Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Linda Carlson, MS, RT, and Philip W. Ballinger, PhD, RT. Read Original Content

The convergence of mobile technology with an evolving healthcare delivery system will continue to drive the mobile health applications market, which will see revenues grow from $230 million in 2010 to $392 million in 2015, according to research from Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Manhattan Research, the percentage of physicians in the U.S. using smartphones increased to 64 percent. The group increased by 20 percent between 2008 and 2009, the study found. The number of physicians using iPhones doubled, Manhattan Research found. Read Original Content

*************************************************************

Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of September 16, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

According to Preventice Inc. 2.2 million patients globally are using wireless monitoring, a figure estimated to approach 5 million by 2015. The company also said the global patient monitoring market will reach $9.3 billion by 2014. Read Original Content

As the global telemedicine market reaches $2.5 billion, industry leaders are gathering in San Diego to discuss grants, funding, vendor selection and credentialing. Read Original Content

WebMD, the leading source of health information, has announced its new WebMD Pain Coach for the iPhone, a unique free mobile application for consumers and patients living with chronic pain. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

A new tool from researchers at the University of Washington, allows individuals to monitor their lung function at home or on the go simply by blowing into a smartphone. Read Original Content

Mobile health application store Happtique has started testing a new online system that allows healthcare professionals to prescribe mobile health apps to their patients. Read Original Content

The market for smartphone applications for mobile health will double this year, to reach $1.3 billion and the market is still in embryonic state, says a recent survey. 
Berlin-based Research2guidance says the apps market was $104 million in 2010, then $718 million in 2011 almost a 600 percent increase. Read Original Content

The Department of Veterans Affairs continues its efforts to expand access to care for veterans using technology, including telehealth, currently through collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Read Original Content

A group of doctors from Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa have come up with a simple technology to improve knowledge among Kenyans. The mobile phone application known as iafya is a platform that contains health information simplified to make understanding easy. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Harmonic Group is in negotiations with a South African private hospital regarding the use of its RFID technology to track and secure newborns. Newborns will be secured using an RFID ankle bracelet, ensuring only authorized personnel are allowed to access to the nursery. Read Original Content

A poll of 600 baby boomers found that, although only 24 percent own smartphones, 60 percent say they would download a health and wellness app if their doctor advised them to, while only 5 percent would on the advice of friends and 18 percent on the advice of family. Read Original Content

A U.S. company has started testing a new online system that allows healthcare professionals to prescribe mobile health apps to their patients. Mobile health application store Happtique says it hopes its mRx form will lead to improvements in patient engagement and adherence. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

About 80 percent of doctors and healthcare payers in China say widespread adoption of mobile healthcare is “inevitable,” according to a survey by PwC. Read Original Content

Researchers in Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Ireland, Sweden and Belgium have joined in a 42 month, $5.2 million effort to develop a wearable monitoring system that automatically delivers medications and provides cues to help Parkinson’s patients. Read Original Content

A medical smartphone devised by an Israeli company will enable patients to consolidate ongoing medical tests and diagnostics in one place, and will also provide them the freedom of travel and ease of use lost with conventional medical monitoring. Read Original Content

A new smartphone application called ICE allows first responders to quickly review pertinent medical history on the scene and with the push of a button send the information to participating hospital emergency rooms. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of August 19, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

According to a Verasoni study, the top 150 health-related apps have been downloaded more than 67.5 million times onto iPhones, and more than 59.1 million times onto Android devices. Read Original Content

According to a survey by Parks Associates, almost 30 percent of respondents who are mobile phone users that have serious medical conditions say they would be able to monitor and handle their issues better if a mobile app was available that would help. The research also indicates that that as many as 20 percent of all smartphone users would like some kind of mobile medicine application. Read Original Content

Both the telehealth and mobile health markets are expected to increase dramatically over the next few years, according to market researcher GlobalData. Growing applications and availability led the firm to predict that the industry will grow from a 2011 valuation of $13.2 billion to $32.5 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software

An analysis of the global telemedicine market indicates that it will continue to grow at around 19 percent a year through 2015. In its report, “Global Telemedicine Market 2011-2015,” Research and Markets of Dublin predicts future prospects are immense. Read Original Content

According to GlobalData in a new report, the global mHealth market was worth $1.2 billion in 2011, but will jump in value to reach $11.8 billion by 2018, climbing at an impressive Compound Annual Growth Rate of 39 percent. Read Original Content

The market for remote patient monitoring systems is expected to leap to $20.9 billion over the next four years, according to a report by InformationWeek.
The rising number of elderly patients has the U.S. health care system looking for ways to manage costs and avoid hospital overcrowding. The market for remote monitoring systems grew from $3.9 billion in 2007 to $8.9 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

Health and well being applications are estimated to make up approximately 40 percent of new smartphone apps currently being developed. This is a huge market and only set to increase as the benefits become more apparent and smartphone and tablet technology become more widespread. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of August 5, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

The market for health related apps is poised to hit $392 million in revenue by 2015 according to Frost and Sullivan. Read Original Content

The U.S. market for advanced patient monitoring systems has grown from $3.9 billion in 2007 to $8.9 billion in 2011 and is forecast to reach $20.9 billion by 2016, according to a study by Kalorama Information. Read Original Content

According to a new research report from London-based Global Data, the global mobile health market was worth $1.2 billion in 2011 and will increase in value to $11.8 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Vitals, the New York-based developer of online physician information and ratings resources, is launching its first mobile application to make accessing information easier for smartphone owners. Read Original Content

Both the telehealth and mobile health markets are expected to increase dramatically over the next few years, according to market researcher GlobalData. The industry will grow from a 2011 valuation of $13.2 billion to $32.5 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

A new survey by industry analyst Parks Associates has found that a full quarter of all people who use a smartphone would like to see an application that allows them to communicate better with their doctor. Read Original Content

The telemedicine market is expected to achieve "significant" growth in the next few years, from $736 million in 2011 to $2.5 billion in 2018, according to a new study by WinterGreen Research. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of July 22, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Analyst forecasts estimate the potential value of the mHealth market will be $4.6 billion by 2014. Read Original Content

Azumio has acquired SkyHealth, the developer behind Fitness Buddy, the number-one ranked Health and Fitness paid app on iTunes, and Glucose Buddy, the most downloaded diabetes app in the world. Read Original Content

mHealth is taking the health care industry by storm, but "there are no rules to the game," said Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., founder and director at the Center for Connected Health in a recent interview. Mobile health is a "game changer," he added, but there is a lot of hype because there are a lot of people developing health apps just to "get rich quick." Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

There are going to be two mobile health markets, but investors may be challenged for some time to find a route to profit from either, despite revenue in the space that should double from about $718 million this year to $1.3 billion next year, according to Research2Guidance. Read Original Content

A recent article at Healthcare Collective takes the position – in asking the question, “What’s the Matter with Mobile Health Apps Today?” - that most mobile healthcare apps aren’t used, at least not beyond an initial download and trial, after which the apps are discarded as quickly as they were downloaded. Read Original Content

Vmersion-Health has released Gluco-Share, a mobile smart device application that connects people living with diabetes with their family and friends through a private and secure social media network. The Gluco-Share app is a free download available at the Apple iTunes store. Read Original Content