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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
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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of September 9, 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.

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The market for telemedicine systems and software is expected to increase to $2.5 billion by 2018 from $736 million last year, according to WinterGreen Research. Read Original Content

Tablets like Apple’s iPad are poised to change telemedicine. Telemedicine-dedicated device and software markets at $736 million in 2011 are anticipated to reach $2.5 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

A recent Frost and Sullivan report, "Analysis of the US Broadband mHealth Applications Market," estimates the 2010 figures of $230 million market earned revenues are likely to reach $392 million by 2015. 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 Walgreens Take Care Health Systems is using an mHealth app that will allow patients with smartphones to use these devices to schedule appointments at any of their retail clinics in Chicago and Denver. Read Original Content

According to a recent report from Frost & Sullivan, the Brazilian market is the second fastest growing BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) market after China. Last year Brazil’s health IT market generated revenues of $410 million, and is expected to hit $714 million by 2015. Read Original Content


The Alameda County Fire Department is releasing a smartphone app called PulsePoint that allows community members to provide live saving assistance to victims of sudden cardiac arrest.
 Alameda County is the first multi-agency regional dispatch center to deploy the global positioning system app for iPhone and Android phones. Read Original Content

The global patient monitoring systems market is forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 6.04 percent between 2011 and 2015. Read Original Content

Preventice Inc. remote heart-monitoring system cited research that found approximately 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

The Apollo Hospitals group will set up 30 telemedicine units in Africa under a Memorandum of Understanding it has signed with AfroIndia Medical services. The telemedicine units will facilitate the doctors in several African countries to interact with specialists at Apollo. Read Original Content

Health and wellbeing 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

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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
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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of August 26, 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 Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

Tablets like Apple’s iPad are poised to change telemedicine. Telemedicine-dedicated device and software markets at $736 million in 2011 are anticipated to reach $2.5 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

The market for mobile health applications is continuing to grow and is expected to reach $11.8 billion by 2018, according to GlobalData, a market research firm. Read Original Content

The health industry is responding to the increasing popularity and availability of technological innovations, such as tablets and smartphones. Health and wellbeing applications are estimated to make up approximately 40 percent of new smartphone apps currently being developed. 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.

According to GlobalData, the U.S. dominates the telehealth industry, holding a 51 percent share in 2011, but the Asia-Pacific region is estimated to exhibit the most impressive growth. In 2011, Asia-Pacific contributed $2 billion to the global telehealth and telemedicine market and this is expected to almost quadruple by the end of 2018, to just under $8 billion. Read Original Content

According to a new report from iData Research, the U.S. patient monitoring market was worth more than $3.1 billion in 2011 and it is expected to approach $4.2 billion by 2018. Read Original Content


The expansion of a strong customer base for mobile health apps, with the revenues generated from smartphones and tablets, is a driving force for the growth of the healthcare IT sector in Brazil. It is estimated the revenues from smartphones will reach $46.6 million in 2015, with growth of 112 percent annually. Read Original Content

The market for mobile health apps will exceed $400 million in revenue by 2016, according to ABI Research. In addition, as of April 2012, more than 13,600 iPhone health and fitness apps were available to consumers, MobiHealthNews reported. Read Original Content

A recent survey conducted by digital health communications firm Enspektos found that physicians are more likely than nurses to find medical information in mobile apps credible. Of the more than 100 physicians surveyed, about 70 percent said mobile apps were a very credible or highly credible, while only about 46 percent of the 100 nurses surveyed were as trusting. Read Original Content
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