Accelerator. Click here to see the list of 2014 SXSW Accelerator winners. The sixth annual SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle will take place at SXSW Startup Village on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9. A live audience, as well as a panel of expert judges will discover advancements in various sectors of emerging technology.
The best part? Product demonstrations by the most ambitious talents in the world with the most creative new ideas to change it. Catch a glimpse of the industry's future, with a guided tour by our emcees and judges. How does the competition unfold? On Saturday, March 8, a total of 48 Interactive technology companies will dazzle a live audience, the panel of three judges and co-emcees in Round One with their ideas, innovations, products and / or services. On Sunday, March 9, the field of 48 will be narrowed down to the top 18 companies -- and these 18 startups will return to present to a new set of co-emcees and judges. Mark A. Hanson, PhD: "Wireless sensors have the...
Apple changes mHealth game with HIPAA security claims. Apple's claim that FaceTime video chat can be made HIPAA-compliant could be a game-changer for telemedicine specifically and healthcare generally. Apple officials just announced that with the right security configuration, FaceTime video chat sessions can be secured end-to-end, and at a level that will satisfy HIPAA requirements. That configuration does require a bit of advanced networking. To run the video chat sessions securely, you'll need a WPA2 Enterprise-enabled network that provides authenticated access. Existing WEP, WPA1, and WPA2 won't cut it. Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox!
WPA2 Enterprise, however, uses 128-bit AES encryption, and Apple encrypts FaceTime sessions with unique session keys and a unique ID for each user. The upshot: This security configuration will qualify as HIPAA-compliant, Apple officials indicate. Marketing Medical Devices: EndoGoddess App At Apple Store. Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Jen Dyer gave up her practice to purse her entrepreneurial dream in the #mhealth space. Her new diabetes app, EndoGoddess, is now available at the Apple store. Dr. Dyer sat with #MedDevice to discuss the innovation for diabetes. Dr. Dyer: I stopped my clinical practice May 2011 to become full-time entrepreneur. I have taken huge $ cut in order to participate in #mhealth app development here at the start to develop it right for patients.
My new app for #diabetes provides REWARDS! Joe Hage: And you are part of some #mhealth organizations as I recall …? Dr. Joe Hage: Thanks. Dr. Joe Hage: How much motivation does the average diabetic need to monitor his/her glucose levels? Dr. Joe Hage: So family members would also have to download and pay for the app? Dr. Joe Hage: So the @EndoGoddess app users would email a link to their families to “sponsor” them by contributing to an iTunes account. Dr. Dr. Joe Hage: Can you talk to us about HIPAA implications? Dr. Dr. Dr. Home. Ten predictions for the mobile health market. Tags: ABI Research | Chilmark Research | IDC | In-Stat | industry metrics | InMedica Research | Juniper Research | Manhattan Research | Over the past three years, research firms including InMedica, Juniper, Chilmark, ABI, In-Stat, IDC, and Manhattan have been predicting the future size of and eventual revenues generated by mobile health services.
This week MobiHealthNews has compiled its list of ten predictions for the next five years of mobile health — including prognostications for both consumer and enterprise — beginning with one that has already come to pass. 81 percent of physicians using smartphones by 2012 Manhattan Research has repeatedly predicted that by 2012, 81 percent of physicians would own a smartphone. That level of adoption already occurred in 2011, according to a May 2011 report from Manhattan. Want to read stories as soon as they are posted? Remote Patient Monitoring $1.9B by 2014 Navigation: ( ←Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Next→ ) If “An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away,” can mHealth Apps Bring Patients and Healthcare Folks Together? The February 1866 edition of Notes and Queries magazine includes this: “A Pembrokeshire proverb; Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” Since then a number of variants of the rhyme have been coined, up to our present-day “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Just as apples have a numerous benefits – they contain Vitamin C, reduce tooth decay by cleaning one’s teeth and killing off bacteria, and may even protect brain cells against neuro-degenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease, as has been suggested by Cornell University researchers – mHealth apps serve multiple purposes including promotion of wellness and communicating with healthcare providers, payers, and pharmacists. Indeed, many of the country’s large healthcare providers and payers are offering patient-focused smart phone applications that will change the way information is exchanged between member patients and their physicians, hospital providers and payer companies.
Mobile Health Apps That Share. A set of tools for building cell-phone apps that collect health-related information aims to change the way health information is stored, shared, and used. The Open mHealth project, developed at UCLA and UCSF, provides technology for health apps that transmit a variety of data to the project’s central data warehouse. This data can include information entered by users and also such things as smart-phone GPS- and accelerometer-tracking information. One pilot project, for instance, is studying the diet, stress, movement, and exercise patterns of overweight new mothers.
Users have control over what data is captured and get to choose with whom it is shared. Hospitals, health-care providers, and startup companies could design additional apps to draw on the data. Estrin says sharing mobile health data could help advance medical research: “When people share components of the infrastructure, there is more rapid innovation than when people are working separately to reinvent the wheel.” mHealth Providers Learning It’s All About Competitive Cooperation. mHealth (also written as m-health or mobile health) is a term used for the practice of medical and public health supported by mobile devices.
It is fast becoming a top priority for large, complex healthcare organizations seeking to make electronic records, patient information, etc. accessible to a wide range of constituencies via the device or appliance of choice. And its importance is not to be underestimated, as it offers the mobility and flexibility necessary for the user to react instantaneously to the provider, thereby facilitating wellness and avoidance of critical outcomes that require intense and expensive treatments. Many quality applications already exist that create opportunities for physicians and clinicians in their quest to provide efficient quality healthcare. Competitive Cooperation Is the Key There are several types of mHealth providers. Microsoft Unlocks Mobile Access To HealthVault -- InformationWeek. Will health apps save payors money?
Some of the largest health insurers are increasing their mobile healthcare presence with patient-focused smartphone applications, reports AmedNews, with apps for physicians soon to follow. The mobile offerings provide a strong customer service tool, strengthen the physician/patient relationship, and save costs, according to insurers. Among the companies with currently available mobile offerings are Humana, UnitedHealthCare, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. The applications’ features include: looking up claims history, researching drug prices, displaying an electronic medical ID card, viewing health savings account info, and access to a GPS-integrated physician network directory.
Some, like Blue Cross and Blue Shield Florida’s offerings, allow users to buy coverage straight from the application. Terrell Edwards, president and CEO of PerfectServe, reiterated concerns voiced from others in the industry that these apps need to increase efficiency and demonstrate workflow optimization. 6 Questions: Alan Portela, AirStrip. As an ongoing feature for our audience, Mobile Healthcare Today presents a series of short-form Q&As with executives, developers and other influential figures in the mobile healthcare sector, called 6 Questions. Intended to provide a broad overview of emerging trends and technology in the field, 6 Questions presents an exclusive, concise view of the thinking of key thinkers and innovators.
Today’s 6 Questions is with Alan Portela, the CEO of AirStrip Technologies. Also a director for Diversinet and CliniComp International, Portela has more than 25 years experience as an information technology strategist and executive. He is the founder of Hybrid Clinical Transformation LLC, which provides consulting services to healthcare companies, and is a lecturer at the University of California Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business. Alan Portela: It’s clear that today's biggest challenges in healthcare are physician adoption of EMRs as well as enabling health information exchanges (HIEs). FDA clears Withings iPhone blood pressure cuff. Withings announced this week that they’ve received FDA clearance for their iOS-compatible blood pressure monitor, allowing for its immediate availability in the US for a $129.99 retail price. The release marks the first time an FDA-approved BP cuff includes direct connectivity with an iOS device.
First announced at CES this year, the monitor runs on three AAA batteries and works in conjuction with an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Users start the testing by using the free iOS app, which delivers results about thirty seconds later. These results, including date and time, can then be e-mailed to a physician via the app or instantly synced to health monitoring services like Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health. Check out the full press release after the jump. Withings announced that the FDA has provided its iOS-powered blood pressure monitor with 510(k) clearance, and the company wasted little time making the device commercially available in the US.
. • Measurement: Oscillometric Method. Orange Juice – SKD's blog on Intersection of Design, Business and Culture » Creating a Consumer Movement in Wireless Health. An Interview with WLSA VP of Partner Development, Paul Sonnier One of the biggest opportunities for accelerating the adoption of Wireless Health is the creation of a consumer movement. This is one thing that struck me during this year’s WLSA Convergence Summit. Connected devices, apps and services marketed directly to consumers are allowing people to achieve personal health objectives, whether that involves getting a better night’s sleep (Zeo Personal Sleep Coach), managing weight (Fit Bit or Body Media), or even conceiving a child (Duo Fertility).
Many medical device companies are taking traditional routes, coordinating with insurance providers, health systems and the FDA to get their devices adopted in clinical settings. Working in the marketing department for a company that designs both medical devices and consumer products, I was intrigued by the idea of a consumer-driven movement in healthcare. Excerpts of our conversation follow. You mentioned “branding mHealth” in your article. #mhealth Innovation and Reimbursement - it will come #hcdc Come and discuss at healthca.mp/dc on 6/8/11 - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. Cambridge researchers release report on how mobile phones are transforming healthcare. >Many would argue the greatest promise of mobile health lies in the developing world – areas where low-cost, portable diagnostic and treatment tools could impact millions of people.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge recently released a comprehensive study of mobile health applications in a nation where the confluence of poverty, geography, and rapid economic growth have created an environment where mobile health should thrive – China. Having received unprecedented access from Mobile China, the largest mobile communications provider in the world, their findings are compiled in a 100+ page report on the promise of mobile health technology. As the lead author, Professor Ian Leslie, stated in an interview with Research News (a University of Cambridge publication), We saw an enormous range of existing mHealth applications in the course of our research, and our work with academics identified even more ideas for an even greater range.
Beware of healthcare content FARMS like OrganizedWisdom.com. OrganizedWisdom Scandal inShare Past Updates || Today's Update: Collection of topics, evidence & discussions on OrganizedWisdom New evidence as of Thursday May 5th Copyright & Intellectual Property Theft of online health information websites & social media campaigns, Link & content Farming & the resulting automatic Health Recommendations generated by OW "bots" & possible HIPAA violations, and Misuse of experts’ reputations for monetizing scheme without their knowledge.
Implications: 1) Original health information compromised 2) Legal issues for intellectual property theft 3) Compromise of the Integrity, credibility, and reputation of every one of 5700 experts 4) Possible HIPAA & other government violations 5) Poor online experience for patients 6) Drowning out of original health information on the internet with irrelevant content, spam, and more advertisements that misinform people seeking critical health information. Who am I? InShare319. Evidence-based Medicine gives way to Evidence-based Health but what we need is Evidence-based Choices via #mHealth - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. Texting their way to better health. A team of undergraduates from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Central Connecticut State University is developing a technology-based solution to one of the most pressing problems plaguing maternal and child health in the developing world: inadequate prenatal and infant care.
Harvard sophomore Annie Ryu and her brother, Alex, a student at Penn, conceived the project last summer when Annie was working in Nicaragua and Alex was working in India with the nonprofit Karuna Trust. Concerned about the issues of poverty and low vaccination rates they saw, they began working on ways to improve the situation. “One of the main reasons women don’t come to appointments is that they forget,” Annie said. The two connected with Brandon Liu, a Harvard freshman with a computer science background, and Central Connecticut student David Amenta, who is working with Microsoft on apps for the Windows Phone 7 operating system. “We’ve grappled with this for decades,” Subramanian said. #mcitizen MobileHealth #omhealth why it matters ( ) - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous.
Open #mhealth consortium the opening session - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. Open #mHealth Partnership Discussion. Where do we go from here? - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. Open #mHealth meeting - Washington DC #omhe followed by #mCitizen summit on Saturday - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. Health 2.0 Starts with Food. We’re posting today from San Diego, where Fooducate has been invited to demo our iPhone app at the Health 2.0 Conference. Borrowing the “2.0″ from “Web 2.0″, this conference and organization is all about web and mobile technologies empowering people to take charge of their health. The themes for this week’s conference are Making health care cheaperThe evolution of researchPrevention, wellness, exercise & food Fooducate falls under that last bullet point.
While prevention and food seem like a tiny part of the health spending pie, it is our firm belief that they are the cheapest and most effective way to improve public health and dramatically decrease spending on diet related disease. Obesity, costing the US $117 billion annually, is preventable. Unfortunately, “the system is rigged”. This group has a stronghold on US food and health policy, through millions of dollars shelled out to powerful lobbies, and campaign contributions. But there is hope. Get Fooducated: iPhone App. Studies: SMS effective for smoking cessation. HealthCamp San Diego. Quantified Self Conference 2011. US Wireless Quick Facts. The doors to mobile app development just got blown wide open | Purple Raincloud.