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With thousands of health-related smart phone applications (APPs) currently available – and more coming online daily – providers, developers and organizations are realizing that mobile platforms are a source of health information. The use of these applications allows mobile devices to serve in many capacities i.e. dictation, prescription platforms, medical device accessories, remote monitoring, communication tools, provider and patient locators and more at the download of an APP.

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ONC wants more resources to conduct PHI privacy campaign February 22, 2012 | Diana Manos The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is seeking more information on the risk associated with accessing personal health information through mobile devices.  More
 
BoxTone, Verizon, Motorola launch platform for Android-based devices February 20, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The new platform aims to enable healthcare providers to push their services out into the field – whether it be a homecare agency, a remote clinic or the battlefield – through Android-based smartphones and tablets.  More
 
GetWellNetwork unveils iPad capabilities for IPC solution February 17, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The developer of the popular interactive patient care solution is moving away from the hospital-based computer and laptop and giving patients and caregivers the opportunity to access information and communicate while on the move or outside the hospital room.  More
ONC launches app challenge to aid people with disabilities February 14, 2012 | Bernie Monegain Federal officials say mobile tools can be used to help those with disabilities gain access to their medical records as well as other health and wellness resources.  More
University challenge targets NCDs with mHealth and social media February 10, 2012 | Mike Miliard A global competition sponsored by IBM and Novartis has yielded social media and mobile technology tools that could help tackle non-communicable diseases such as asthma, diabetes, stroke and cancer.  More
Mobile healthcare at HIMSS12: Usability, workflow and innovation February 7, 2012 | Jonathon Dreyer With HIMSS12 less than two weeks away, Nuance Healthcare's Jonathon Dreyer takes a look at several mHealth themes that are expected to dominate the discussion in Las Vegas.  More
Boston conference to explore mobile tech's influence on behavior change, healthy lifestyles February 6, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The second annual Healthcare Experience Design Conference, scheduled for March 25-27 in Boston, will bring together a host of healthcare entrepreneurs to discuss how people can be motivated to improve their health and well-being.  More
Spyglass study: Physicians need more out of mobile technology February 1, 2012 | Eric Wicklund A new survey indicates physicians are embracing mobile devices, but don't think they're sophisticated enough yet to improve workflows and change the healthcare landscape.  More
Chopra resigning as nation's CTO January 27, 2012 | Mary Mosquera Aneesh Chopra, whose reign as the nation's Chief Technology Officer included the launching of several mobile healthcare projects, will leave the office in February. Reports suggest he may enter politics.  More
ONC seeks good practices for mobile device privacy and security January 25, 2012 | Eric Wicklund As part of the government's mHealth Initiative, federal officials have launched a project to identify the best ways to protect health information while using mobile devices.  More
Intermountain chooses Kony Solutions to develop mobile app platform January 25, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The Salt Lake City-based health system will use Kony's new KonyOne 4.0 platform to develop apps for physicians, nurses, clinical care, patients and health plan members.  More
Kaiser gives mobile access to 9 million members January 24, 2012 | Bernie Monegain An estimated 9 million Kaiser Permanente patients can access their medical information on mobile devices through a mobile-optimized website, Kaiser executives have announced.  More
New mHIMSS app debuts at HIMSS12 February 22, 2012 | The mHIMSS Workgroups The mHIMSS team is proud to announce the release of the mHIMSS app, which is available on Android and iOS marketplaces.  More
Pharma looks to mobile strategies to effectively reach prescribers February 17, 2012 | Sanjay Pingle It is well documented that the pharma industry is facing many challenges in 2012. Drug makers are losing exclusive patents on drugs that have matured, causing unexpected losses of revenue in the billions of dollars. As a result, companies are cutting costs and significantly reducing their sales force – which in turn creates the new challenge of reaching practices and hospitals with fewer face-to-face office visits.  More
Five reasons why digital health technologies need FDA oversight February 15, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD A draft proposal of the FDA guidelines for regulating mobile medical applications was released in July, 2011. In response, the mHealth Regulatory Coalition sent detailed comments on the proposal.  More
Lee Kim: FDA, devices, mobile, and you! February 3, 2012 | The mHIMSS Workgroups February's monthly mHIMSS Mobile Task Force meeting will include a presentation from Lee Kim on the subject of "FDA Regulations on Medical Device Data Systems (MDDS)."  More
Look, Ma - no wires! January 26, 2012 | Matthew Grob, CPHIMS, FHIMSS I started thinking about what will happen when my kids look back at videos shot when they were young. What about those images will look old-fashioned to them? And I realized that they would ask me one simple question – “What’s with all the wires?”  More
Healthcare has room for many more dreams January 16, 2012 | Edna Boone, MA, CPHIMS Having spent more than 25 years in healthcare, I was compelled to reflect on my experience working in various settings, the health needs of the most vulnerable and the message Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared with us almost 50 years ago.  More
Getting 'Siri-ious' about healthcare January 12, 2012 | Matthew Grob, CPHIMS, FHIMSS With increasing focus on the patient’s role in accountable care, particularly around management of chronic conditions, I decided to see how Siri could help a healthcare consumer in that regard.  More
Georgia's 'Strong4Life' campaign is harsh, but necessary - now it's time to get mHealth involved January 4, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The campaign, backed by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, uses overweight children to urge Georgians to "stop sugar-coating the problem" and tackle the growing epidemic of juvenile obesity head-on.  More
Mobile-enabled, HIPAA-compliant December 23, 2011 | Sanjay Pingle There's no question that mobile apps have the potential to improve patient care.  More
Does the mHealth movement have an image problem? December 12, 2011 | Eric Wicklund The atrium at the Gaylord Resort in Washington D.C. was brimming with Christmas spirit last week, and teeming with families looking to attend the nearby ice show or meet up with Santa and, for some reason, Shrek. They mingled freely with the thousands of healthcare executives attending the 3rd Annual mHealth Summit at the conference center next door.  More
The Sanford Guide introduces an app for Hepatitis treatment September 22, 2011 | Eric Wicklund Hepatitis, recently identified by the World Health Organization as a matter of global concern, now has its own mobile app.  More
MMIA comments on FDA's suggested mobile app guidelines September 16, 2011 | Eric Wicklund The American Medical Informatics Association has weighed in on federal plans to regulate mobile medical apps, cautioning officials that there's a difference between an app that's motivated by an electronic response and one that's triggered by an actual human being.  More
Pricing for Success: App Industry Trends and Best Practices February 3, 2012 | Distimo Presentation from the Verizon Development Center Conference that evaluates trends in mobile apps.  More
2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge January 6, 2012 | mHIMSS Nuance has announced the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge. As part of this month-long event running through February 3rd, Nuance is calling all healthcare developers to voice-enable mobile or web-based healthcare apps. Looking to identify the most innovative uses of voice recognition for the mobile clinician, Nuance is offering more than $25,000 worth of prizes to developers who demonstrate how voice-driven interactions with a mobile device can enhance clinicians' mobile experience, improve the mobile workflow and lead to better patient care.  More
Nuance Healthcare Development Platform - Healthcare in the Cloud January 6, 2012 | mHIMSS Designed for Healthcare ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) as well as internal development teams at provider and payer organizations that want to embed advanced speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) functionality in their clinical workflow solutions.  More
Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that December 8, 2011 | mHIMSS At TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.  More
Trends in Mobile Medicine: Smartphone Apps for Physicians December 28, 2011 | mHIMSS For physicians, the point-of-care has shifted from a clinical setting to anywhere the physician accesses data. Yet some hospitals are slower to embrace the technology citing cost and security concerns when integrated with patient electronic health records (EHRs). This is changing.  More
The World of Health and Medical Apps December 8, 2011 | mHIMSS The 5,820 apps analyzed herein are all health, medical or fitness related – we discarded the ones not in English and we tossed out the miscategorized--there were almost 700 such apps. The health related apps have been, in some cases, pulled from across an appstore’s various categories so long as they were relevant specifically to patients or healthcare professionals.  More
Mobile Applications in Healthcare December 1, 2011 | mHIMSS Mobile solutions for healthcare industry are to not only focus on operational efficiency but prioritize critical information access and health & wellness management. Mobile in healthcare is to bring efficiency not with sheer focus on lower costs but to provide improved services at the point of care.  More
FDA Regulations on Medical Data Systems February 14, 2012 | mHIMSS mHIMSS Workgroup members Lee Kim (@lee_kim) and Dr. Mohamd Arif Ali (@mhealth1) presented on February 10th, 2011. The presentation is titled FDA Regulations on Medical Device Data Systems. The webinar provide a perspective from the clinical provider side-Dr. Ali’s perspective- and the enforcement perspective-Lee Kim’s role as an attorney. The presentation is recorded and available to members with full HIMSS access.  More
Securely Manage Mobile Medical Devices & Apps: A Healthcare IT Network How To Guide November 21, 2011 | mHIMSS Healthcare IT needs an automated framework for secure device provisioning, app development and deployment, compliance monitoring, ongoing support, change management and retirement. Ideally the same systems would also provide "reasonable safeguards" for the protection of ePHI sent, received or stored by a mobile device in accord with HIPAA guidelines. This Webinar will focus on today's best practices for full lifecycle mobile management.  More
Video Presentations from The 2011 mHealth Summit, December 5 - 7 2011 January 18, 2012 | mHIMSS This webpage hosts all of the video presentations from the The 2011 mHealth Summit, December 5 - 7 2011.  More
60 Minutes Features Autism Apps November 30, 2011 | mHIMSS In its October 23 episode, the CBS News magazine "60 Minutes" reported on software for the Apple iPad and other tablet computers that allows people with autism and other communication disabilities to use the iPad as a communicator. Correspondent Lesley Stahl interviews people with autism as well as family members, doctors and therapists on the benefits these apps have had for many people.  More
Mobile Medical Apps – Draft Guidance November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS A presentation by Bakul Patel, Policy Advisor, Center for Devices and Radiological Health  More
Design Tenet: Let Data Scream February 1, 2012 | mHIMSS The data is THE story; it should be front and center to the end user. This tenet provides guidance on giving prominence to the most pertinent pieces of data with limited screen real estate on mobile devices.  More
Definitions of mHealth January 5, 2012 | mHIMSS A collection of mHealth definitions from key healthcare organizations.  More
Design Tenet: Going Mobile December 28, 2011 | mHIMSS This presentation talks about the advantages of mobile platforms for healthcare applications. It outlines new capabilities that do not exist in desktops such as location awareness, touch-based interaction, integrated sensors and communication etc., and new interaction patterns unique to mobile platforms.  More
Design Tenet: Gorillas in the Mist December 21, 2011 | mHIMSS Observe users in their environment. This insight into the drivers and motivators of user behavior in healthcare setting gives us the ‘Aha’ moments for design, and clear direction of where to take the product.  More
Design Tenet: What Interface December 14, 2011 | mHIMSS With limited real estate, every element must be necessary and efficient. This tenet provides design best practices for getting the interface out of the way so users accomplish their work.  More
Design Tenet: Type Less and Less Type November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS Typography is the visual hierarchy for words. It’s the interface design for text, critical for readability and scanning.  More
Mobile Device Functionality: Mobile OS Comparison Matrix February 11, 2012 | Todd MacCallum The first in a series of reports, author Todd MacCallum provides an overview of mobile device operating systems. Covered in the comparisons are topics such as active directory integration, data encryption, and support for virtual applications.  More
The mHIMSS App February 9, 2012 | mHIMSS The mHIMSS app provides mobile users the opportunity to view and share mobile content on demand, anytime, anywhere. The app includes news feeds, blog feeds, and the ability to view and add events directly to your mobile device. The user also has the ability to share any of these via SMS, Twitter, Facebook, or email.  More
Glossary of Terms February 6, 2012 | mHIMSS   More
mHealth: FROM SMART PHONES TO SMART SYSTEMS January 31, 2012 | mHIMSS Click on the book cover to preview a chapter from the new book mHealth: FROM SMART PHONES TO SMART SYSTEMS  More
U.S. Surgeon General’s Healthy App Challenge December 8, 2011 | mHIMSS In June 2011, the National Prevention Council, which is chaired by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, released the National Prevention Strategy, America’s plan for better health and wellness.  More
User Interface Guidelines: Nokia December 7, 2011 | mHIMSS This library includes basic information about usability and usability methods, as well as information about Nokia UI styles, and various design guidelines.  More