Three groups of companies to form the mHealth app ecosystem
Vital data like steps, calories burned and glucose readings will constitute the "core value" of the emerging mHealth app market.
Adolescents with chronic diseases are better off managing their health with mobile technologies
Teens suffering from chronic diseases often delay in seeking an appointment to report their symptoms. Mobile technology helps them overcome this.
6 hidden factors behind successful mHealth apps
These factors go beyond the common stuff like getting featured on an app store, great app design, usability and functionality and highly visible ad campaigns.
mHealth apps lack behavior-change techniques
The team has found two types of physical-activity apps, those focusing on educating users on different exercises and those supporting users' motivation.
Chinese mHealth market to reach CNY 19.05 billion by the end of 2018
When choosing mHealth apps, Chinese mobile phone users pay close attention to security (45.8%) and quality (25.3%) of medical services.
19% of Americans to own a wearable tech device by 2015
Unsurprisingly, over 30% of respondents aged 18 to 34 already have a wearable technology product or plan to get one within the next 12 months.
Global patient monitoring devices market to be worth $22.2 billion by 2018
The growth of the remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices segment will be driven by government regulations to control the rising healthcare costs.
Vitality Group: Fitness devices deliver on their promise
"Wearable technologies ultimately only work if they're used and we wanted to determine if the hype is justified" - Alan Pollard, CEO of The Vitality Group.
AliveCor’s SEARCH-AF trial results: atrial fibrillation was identified in 1.5% of 1,000 customers
The study has also found that the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was just over $4,000 for an increase of one Quality Adjusted Life Year.
51% of hospitals plan to evaluate enterprise-class nursing smartphone solutions to support collaboration
These solution will allow hospitals to address current and future application requirements that are tightly integrated with the hospital systems and devices.