Mobile news from around the web

Healthcare is Verizon’s $6 billion business May 22, 2013
Venture Beat

At VentureBeat’s HealthBeat today, Verizon managing principal of connected health care solutions Nancy Green explained how Verizon can benefit the health care community.

What’s missing from many health apps — medical expertise May 14, 2013
amednews.com

The lead researcher of a study says apps have potential for improving pain management, but stricter oversight is needed. The FDA is considering some regulations.

Beyond apps: how to deliver mobile healthcare May 14, 2013
Health Service Journal (UK)

Mobile working holds many benefits for the NHS, but success depends on finding the right solution, says Dr Shaun O’Hanlon

Sensor technology is psychologists’ latest tool in tackling drug abuse May 13, 2013
gigaom

Psychologists are studying the use of sensor-based devices to help treat people with substance abuse problems.

Mhealth study in Brazil shows tech can help the poor May 13, 2013
QR Code Press

Researchers have found that this technology can be very helpful to people living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro

Fitbit Flex : Wearable design with an impressive smartphone app May 10, 2013
Yahoo!/Wired

In well-defined markets, it’s rare to see a breakthrough device. And yet here we are. There are a lot of sleep and activity trackers to choose from right now, but none better than the Fitbit Flex. It is the most wearable, best-syncing device in the scrum, with the best app to boot. And it does all this at a great price.

UC San Francisco creates Center for Digital Health Innovation May 3, 2013
EHR Intelligence

The University of California San Francisco is preparing to launch a new Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI) to focus on studying and developing new technologies to handle the proliferation of data sets created by mHealth initiatives and social sharing of health data.

Your smartphone just diagnosed you with postpartum depression May 3, 2013
Yahoo! News

Depending on your perspective, Twitter can either be a valuable source of breaking news, or a fire hose of miscellaneous, often dubious information. Microsoft researchers are investigating whether the microblogging service could serve another, more scientific function--to spot signs of postpartum depression in new mothers based on changes in how and what they tweet.

Continua Health Alliance aims to cure top telehealth industry challenges May 2, 2013
Embedded Computing Design

Striving to cure telehealth challenges - including connected health equipment ease-of-deployment, integration of telehealth data into care providers' normal workflow, and meeting changing patient needs - is all in a day's work for the nonprofit Continua Health Alliance.

NHS telemedicine system for strokes hailed as a success May 2, 2013
Computerworld UK

16 consultants are able to deliver 24/7 thrombolysis treatment in the United Kingdom.

mHealth VC investment nears $500 million in Q1 of 2013 April 29, 2013
EHR Intelligence

Patients and physicians can’t seem to get enough of the mHealth juggernaut, and venture capital investors are ensuring that they have a steady stream of products and services to gobble up by pouring record amounts of funding into the burgeoning market

Report says mHealth sensor market will grow 70% annually — but what about slow adoption? April 26, 2013
MedCity News

There are certainly more cool technologies, more sensors and more apps – but if people aren’t using them, how are they going to draw in more revenue?

Laws banning telemedicine abortion unlikely to halt remote healthcare April 26, 2013
Thomson Reuters

Abortion opponents have scored a series of wins in recent weeks, convincing state legislatures to ban abortion by telemedicine, but the bills are unlikely to derail laws that encourage the use of telecommunications to provide healthcare remotely.

Telemedicine and EMS: The future is now April 25, 2013
EMS1.com

It's more than videoconferencing; data is the name of the game

Medical device tax: Why we should exempt mHealth devices April 25, 2013
policymic

Last month, the Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce deliberated whether smartphone-enabled devices would be subject to the 2.3% medical device tax outlined in PPACA. All of the Committee witnesses — prominent players in the mHealth community — denounced the tax.