Robotics help the paralyzed walk (video) Disability news - Google News. Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com. Year In Review: Top Disability Stories Of 2010. Disability Scoop - Developmental Disability News. Health and Disability News and Information - Disabled World. 3 Mobile Healthcare Apps that Leverage the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud. The mobile healthcare market is finally starting to show significant growth. The number of apps has increased more than 150% on Android and 140% on the Blackberry in the past year. According to Mobile Health News, more than 4,200 healthcare apps are on the Apple platform and Android users have access to about 500. By 2015, more than 500,000 people are expected to be using healthcare smartphone applications. Apps that leverage a cloud infrastructure are just emerging.
These services help doctors serve patients from remote locations. They can also help people manage their own health and understand the environment where they live. AirStrip AirStrip Technologies has teamed with Sprint on an app that deliver patient data from hospital monitoring systems to mobile devices. My Place History My Place History shows your location and the public health and environmental hazards of the region. Sana Sana was developed by a group of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Number of smartphone health apps up 78 percent. Adoption of smartphones in the US only hovers around 20 percent. Most people today do not have smartphones. In turn, most people do not have access to health related apps created for smartphones. Few, however, would disagree that smartphones will likely prove to be a key platform for mobile health innovation. We are tracking these platforms closely.
MobiHealthNews has written extensively about Pew’s recent survey on the adoption rate of mobile health apps. A full 9 percent of American mobile phone users said they have a mobile health app on their phone that enables them to “track” or “manage” their health. As our new research report – “The Fastest Growing and Most Successful Health & Medical Apps” – explains, most mobile health apps available today do not help you track or manage your health.
Our report examines the current state of health and medical related apps available through Apple’s AppStore and BlackBerry’s App World plus the apps available for Google’s Android platform.