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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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HHS launches 5-step mobile device security campaign December 20, 2012 |

Anthony Brino

The agency's 'Know the RISKS' campaign urges healthcare providers to 'decide, assess, identify, develop and train' as they begin using mobile devices. More

Certifying mobile health apps: Just what the doctor ordered December 19, 2012 |

Sandra C. Maliszewski, MSN, JD, MBA

Sandra C. Maliszewski of Happtique examines the problems facing healthcare in regulating mobile healthcare apps - and explains why standards are so important. More

Health Tech Hatch chosen as test platform for healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge December 18, 2012 |

Eric Wicklund

The California-based crowdfunding and development resource for mHealth entrepreneurs will help contestants in the HHS challenge test and refine their mobile apps. More

mHIMSS and mHealth 2012 - the year in review December 17, 2012 |

mHIMSS

mHIMSS officials celebrate the one-year anniversary of the mobile healthcare sub-group and take a look at the past year in mHealth, then offer their predictions for 2013. More

Privacy forum panelists offer their take on BYOD December 14, 2012 |

Eric Wicklund

Healthcare CIOs attending the Healthcare IT News/HIMSS Media Privacy & Security Forum this week in Boston say the proliferation of personal mobile devices will make it necessary for all institutions to develop some sort of BYOD policy. More

mHealth a promising new tool in the global health toolkit December 11, 2012 |

Jeff Rowe

Morning keynote speakers on the final day of the mHealth Summit offered a global outlook on the industry. More

mHealth Summit growing as fast as the industry it represents December 11, 2012 |

Jeff Rowe

Summit organizers – and those in the Exhibit Hall – expect next year's event to be even bigger than this year's record-setting conference. Than again, they say, that's how the industry is growing. More

What does mHealth need? How about a doctor December 11, 2012 |

Eric Wicklund

The 2012 mHealth Summit may have set new high marks in attendance, sessions and Exhibit Hall space, but it was lacking one critical element: The physician champion. More

Bipartisan Policy Center slams healthcare apps adoption rate December 11, 2012 |

Diana Manos

The DC-based group says smartphones are poised to do great things in healthcare - if providers and patients understand how and when to use them. More

Doctors on the go are using the iPad for charge capture December 10, 2012 |

Frank Irving

A new app from AdvancedMD is enabling doctors like Cosme Lozano, who's often away from his office, capture charges on an iPad or iPad Mini. More

California HealthCare Foundation expands investment in teledermatology December 7, 2012 |

Eric Wicklund

The organization has added to an earlier investment in Palo Alto-based Direct Dermatology to help the company expand its telemedicine services to remote and underserved populations. Earlier this week, Pittsburgh-based Highmark announced its own plan to boost teledermatology services to its members. More

Verizon's Tippett says mHealth data transfer and security must be invisible and seamless December 4, 2012 |

Eric Wicklund

In a Tuesday morning keynote at the 2012 mHealth Summit, Peter Tippett, chief medical officer and vice president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, says the mHealth community needs to make the 'gizmo' as easy to use as possible to drive patient and provider adoption. More

Oh, the places you’ll go! The future of healthcare May 8, 2012 |

The mHIMSS Workgroups

What will doctor’s appointments be like in 2015 – and where and when will these encounters occur? Will you be meeting your doctor from the comfort of your own kitchen table, via video conference? Will you be able to send questions and images to your physician’s office via your phone to get consultation about an injury or illness? More

What's ahead on the health app horizon May 8, 2012 |

Laura Montini

There's a fairly new Thai restaurant near Union Square in San Francisco that's my favorite. They run a special promotion with a punch card that lets you get one free buffet bowl for every 10 you buy. I was the second person in the restaurant's history to get a free bowl because I'm there all the time. I've definitely visited more than five times in the past 60 days, which is the amount the current Foursquare mayor of the restaurant has been. More

What do healthcare privacy and security have to do with an airline accident investigation? Broken links in a chain … April 13, 2012 |

Geoffrey Hancock

On July 19, 1989, a DC-10 crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, killing more than a third of its passengers. Survivors said it was a miracle anyone lived, and members of the flight crew were hailed as heroes. The tail section and right wing broke off as the plane caught fire, bounced and flipped upside down. Debris was scattered as far away as 75 miles. The cause: Microscopic cracks in the plane’s fan disk that formed when the disk was made. These tiny imperfections could have been prevented and should have been discovered during inspection. They were small links in a complex chain of parts that went into creating the airliner. But they failed. More

mHealth: Limiting healthcare through the air April 2, 2012 |

Leroy Jones Jr.

Obviously, promoting the viability of mHealth is what mHIMSS is all about. The unleashed benefits of adopting mobile technologies that can ultimately enhance the quality of healthcare while reducing its inflated costs would benefit everyone throughout the ecosystem – from doctors and patients to hospitals and insurers. More

Top 3 considerations when designing apps for the mobile clinician March 13, 2012 |

Jonathon Dreyer

Mobile devices, and the healthcare apps that run on them, have the potential to greatly enhance patient-provider relationships by allowing physicians to be more engaged and efficient during the patient encounter. More

The intersection of mHealth and meaningful use February 28, 2012 |

The mHIMSS Workgroups

While the use of mHealth devices is not explicitly outlined as a key component of meaningful use, a number of changes to the core measures may drive HIT vendors to develop some technologies associated with the mHealth movement. With the release of Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU 2), the mHealth community should turn its attention to supporting and advancing these new objectives and measures. More

Personalized Prevention, Part I February 23, 2012 |

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD

For a few years now, I’ve been thinking about the potential intersections of genetics/genomics/proteomics and connected health. In fact, my colleague Kamal Jethwani and my daughter Julie coauthored a piece for the journal Personalized Medicine on the topic in 2010. A summary and the reference is linked. (I should also note that the figure I reproduced below is from that article with permission from the publisher.) More

mHIMSS is proud to announce the release of the mHIMSS app February 22, 2012 |

The mHIMSS Workgroups

mHIMSS 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