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7 fitness apps with 16 million or more downloads 27 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
A casual mention tucked into the press release on Nike’s latest ad campaign sparked some interest from The Next Web last week, as Nike revealed that its Nike+ ecosystem now has more than 18 million us...
NYC government creates app for healthy eating 26 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released a health app last week for residents to use while cooking. The city reports 60 percent of adults and 40 percent of children are obese...
Study: Twitter useful for food tracking 26 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
A study published earlier this summer in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that Twitter can help people capture dietary intake and behavior. The data from the study was integrated into Ea...
Cleveland Clinic extends iPad-based concussion detection to rural settings 26 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
The Cleveland Clinic developed the Cleveland Clinic Concussion Assessment System (C3), a two-year-old iPad app that measures concussion severity and recovery, to “bring continuity of assessment across...
Roundup: Health tracking may pose risks, rise of period apps and new course for healthcare startups 24 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
This week, MobiHealthNews wrote about a survey from Flurry that indicated health and fitness users still prefer the iPhone to the iPad, Allscripts’ updated EHR iPad app and new company-branded app sto...
Two ways Medicare pays for digital health tools 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
This month, Medicare revealed the list of more than 2,000 hospitals losing up to 2 percent of their funding for failing to sufficiently reduce readmissions. Next year, those penalties can rise even hi...
Sponsored Post: FutureMed – Exploring and Helping Create the Future of Health and Medicine 22 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
FutureMed is a one of a kind program that educates, informs and prepares physicians, innovators, inventors, investors and senior healthcare executives to understand and recognize the opportunities and...
Wireless breast self-exam device heads to Indiegogo 22 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
A startup company is looking to raise $650,000 on Indiegogo to test and eventually bring to market a wireless sensor meant to aid in the early detection of breast cancer and the tracking of patients b...
Allscripts updates iPad EHR app, opens app store 22 Aug 2013 | 05:38 pm
EHR vendor Allscripts Healthcare is expanding its mobility efforts, introducing an updated version of its Allscripts Wand native iPad app and debuting a company-branded app store for technology develo...
Samsung launches new gamified health app in Korea 22 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
Among Android phone makers, Samsung has consistently been ahead of the pack in including health apps and functionality on its phones — or at least in paying them lip service. The South Korean company ...
