Why Aren't We Downloading Health Apps? Fitness Devices. Genetrainer - Genetically guided fitness. Apple Gives Massive Nod To Wearable Tech in New iOS 7 Update. Apple may not have unveiled its own smartwatch during this week’s WWDC event but it gave a massive nod to the wearable tech industry with the inclusion of two Bluetooth features in iOS 7.
One of the frustrating things with wearable devices for iOS users today is the need to use third party services to get notifications or collect data. Wearables, like the Pebble and Nike’s Fuel Band, require apps or even workarounds like IFTTT, in order to perform some of their core functions. At this week’s WWDC, Apple cleared the deck of these issues by opening up two Bluetooth driven features: Apple Notification Center Service (ANCS) and the Preservation and Restoration Service.
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Timeline: Smartphone-enabled health devices. By Aditi Pai, Jonah Comstock, & Brian Dolan Mobile health has come a long way since the start of 2009 when Apple demonstrated on-stage at its World Wide Developer Conference how blood pressure monitors and blood glucose meters could connect to the iPhone 3G via cables or Bluetooth.
MobiHealthNews has tracked health-related wearable devices from their infancy as research projects at university labs to the commercially available products they are today. The past three Consumer Electronics Shows, especially, have yielded a wide range of smartphone-enabled health and fitness devices, from smart forks to connected pulse oximeters and, of course, the numerous wearable activity trackers. While it’s not yet fair to say that every wearable health-related device connects to smartphones, almost all of them have companion smartphone apps that display data collected by the device. The smartphone is the hub device for today’s wearable devices. Smartphone-enabled health devices in 2009. An Array of Devices to Track Health - Interactive Graphic.
Redmond company developing computerized socks. REDMOND, Wash. -- The wearable computer is quickly becoming a multibillion dollar industry, and companies are racing to develop technology to cash in on the trend.
For example, Google Glass puts a computer into a pair of eyeglasses. Nike's Fuelband is a bracelet that counts the energy a user burns. Now a small Redmond company made up of former Microsoft workers has managed to develop "smart socks. " The company, called Heapslyon, is making completely normal, washable socks that are embedded with sensors that users can't even feel. Cancer Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums. Healthcare Intelligence Network- Chart of the Week: 10 Behavior Change Principles for an Extrinsic Incentive Program. Source: Health and Wellness Incentives — Positioning for Outcome-Based Rewards, February 4, 2013 Feel free to post this chart (in its entirety) or link to this page.
Healthcare Intelligence Network's Chart of the Week is yours to use in your blog, presentation or simply for reference. Health and Wellness Incentives: Positioning for Outcome-Based Rewards During this webinar replay, John Riedel, president of Riedel & Associates Consultants, Inc., shared the key strategies in sustaining a health and wellness incentive program and moving toward outcome-based results. WebMD and Qualcomm team up to bring Quantified Self tech to the masses.
Tech geeks around the world are using connected devices to measure everything from their daily activity and heart rates to their sleep patterns and blood glucose levels.
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(PRWEB) January 23, 2013 Health Tech Hatch (Hatch), a crowdfunding and development resource for entrepreneurs creating innovative health and wellness products and companies, today announced the launch on its site of a new crowdfunding campaign for Cognichoice™ – The App That Helps People Change. Designed for companies in the health care industry who would offer it to the patient communities they serve with common problems – such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, alcoholism or drug abuse – Cognichoice delivers a personal awareness and social sharing software platform to users in web, mobile web, and mobile versions, based on evidence-based techniques that result in behavior change.
Anne Giles Clelland, M.A., M.S., founder and president of Handshake Media, Incorporated and the founder of Handshake 2.0, originated the concept for Cognichoice. GE healthymagination Projects : Healthymagination. Solutions. Over 150 healthcare payers across the U.S. rely on Healthx cloud-based solutions to drive member engagement and provider collaboration.
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Productivity losses related to personal and family health problems cost U.S. employers $1,685 per employee per year.* The indirect costs of poor health – including absenteeism, presenteeism, disability, and reduced work output – can be even higher than direct medical costs. To be well FAQs.pdf. Www.pwc.com/en_GX/gx/healthcare/mhealth/assets/pwc-emerging-mhealth-full.pdf. About that meta-analysis of mHealth efficacy studies. Technology moves too quickly for the world of academic publishing. That’s a long held belief by many but also a common topic of conversation among those working in digital health today. How to best study efficacy can be a tricky subject for digital health, however, the argument that efficacy data is unimportant rarely enters the debate — it is, especially for those companies that hope to convince payers that their services are worthy of reimbursement.
Of course, the benefits of rigorous study go well beyond that in many cases, too. There are some digital health studies, however, that are best published elsewhere. Www.happtique.com/wp-content/uploads/HAPP_booklet010212hi.pdf. Happtique looks to put mobile health apps to the test. Gamification Providers.
Diabetes. StartUps. Audax. Healthcare social networking, gaming startup backed by Cigna raises $21 million. A health IT startup that’s been working with Cigna to develop a digital health engagement platform to improve their customers’ experiences has raised $21 million in a combination of debt, options and warrants. Audax Health Solutions, a three-year old company based in Washington, D.C. is seeking to raise $45 million, according to the Form D filing with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. Its main product is a social network where patients can connect with each other and consult with experts. When the agreement was announced earlier this month, Cigna’s chief information officer Mark Boxer joined Audax’s board of directors. Which payers are ahead in using technology to engage consumers in health and wellness? As the ground shifts under their very feet, savvy health insurers are figuring out that engaging consumers will be the key to succeeding long term. Wearable device market in growth mode. Sales of mobile wearable devices, including health and fitness devices and smart glasses are expected to reach almost 70 million items by 2017, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The number compares with almost 15 million in sales in 2013. Next-gen wearable devices market, including smart glasses, will be worth more than $1.5 billion by 2014, up from just $800 million this year.
The market will be dominated by North America and Western Europe, representing more than 60 percent of the global wearable device sales, the research finds. Glooko secures FDA 510(k) clearance and execs from Intuit Health, Doximity. Silicon Valley-based startup Glooko announced two new executive hires this week and that its MeterSync Cable and Logbook iOS app received Class II FDA Clearance 510(k). Scientific mobile health research found severely lacking. Dr Caroline Free also led the efficacy trial for Txt2Stop, a SMS-based smoking cessation service Despite all the hype and promise around mobile healthcare technologies, the scientific evidence supporting clinical efficacy of mobile health continues to fall short, according to two new papers in the journal PLOS Medicine.
British researchers examined 20 years’ worth of published studies on mobile interventions delivered to healthcare consumers and mHealth technologies intended to improve care delivery processes. HIPAA-compliant social network startup Audax Health raises $21M, partners with Cigna.