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Power to the Patient: Health Apps, Data & Biosensors Redefine Healthcare
Until recently, the notion of a more informed and independent patient was more promise than reality. But thanks to a new wave of biosensors, smartphone apps, and innovative medical services, the age of the Empowered Patient has arrived. He is armed with exhaustive healthcare data, more than at any moment in human history, and that data is poised to multiply in the coming years – data about his day-to-day fitness, his genetics, his blood work, patients who are similar to him, his doctor, even the doctor’s notes scribbled on the medical chart.
The torrent of information engenders expectations that are reshaping the one relationship that has traditionally defined healthcare: the relationship…
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Is Your Heartbeat Off, or Blood Sugar High? On the Road, You Can Keep Track
A new batch of apps and pocket-size medical devices that work with a smartphone or smartwatch are changing travel for people with serious medical conditions.
You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook
Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; ‘This is a big mess’
Can you really trust the medical apps on your phone?
We tested the symptom checkers of Ada, Babylon and Your.MD to find out how reliable they really are.
How to use Apple Health: Everything you need to know about the platform
We explain how to view your data, sync from your apps and more.
Our phones can now detect health problems from Parkinson’s to depression. Is that a good thing?
Digital phenotyping, which can detect patterns from text messages, movements, and even our speech, could transform health care. But is our personal information at stake?
Period-Tracking Apps Say You May Have a Disorder. What if They’re Wrong?
Flo and Clue, two popular period-tracking apps, recently introduced health tools that evaluate a woman’s risk for the hormonal imbalance known as polycystic ovary syndrome.
Why It’s So Hard to Figure Out Whether Health Apps Work
We can’t seem to figure out how to make a good placebo for controlled studies.
An app a day keeps the doctor away
Healthcare is poised for an upheaval, with the arrival of artificially intelligent health apps that could replace visits to the doctor.
Apple ResearchKit: Everything you need to know about the medical research platform
Want to take part in a medical research study? All you need is an iPhone.
Are Sleep Apps Junk Science? Here's What Doctors Think
We tested five apps for months. Here's what doctors said.
Does Your Smartphone Know if You’re Depressed?
Researchers seek out ‘behavioral biomarkers’ for mental illness; facial expressions, voice and language may offer clues.
Health apps could be doing more harm than good, warn scientists
App development likened to the ‘wild west’ as researchers raise concerns over one-size-fits-all targets and absence of sound science.
How Apps Can Help Manage Chronic Diseases
Hospitals and doctors have identified digital tools that can assist patients in dealing with ailments such as diabetes, heart disease and lung disease. The early results are promising.
Mental Health Apps Made Me Feel More Overwhelmed Than Ever
Products meant to make me feel better just stressed me out more.
Putting Digital Health Monitoring Tools to the Test
Fitbits and smartphone apps can aid in managing chronic conditions — but only if people stay engaged.
The Future of Healthcare: How Mobile Medical Apps Give Control Back to Us
If you’re waiting for the impact that medical apps will have on patients and society at large, then wait no longer. That future is here right now, as medical apps have already initiated a huge sea change in how patients relate to doctors, and vice versa. One of the things that patients have always wanted, but haven’t been able to get, is more control over their medical decisions . . . until today.
These apps make a game out of relieving anxiety. They may be onto something
Popular apps are awarding points for beating “bad guys” and completing “power-ups” — and drawing from real, clinically approved treatments.
Three artificial intelligence and tech tools trying to boost people's mental health
Apps and software that aim to help you feel better.
With Doctors Report, you can track which illnesses are common in your area
Doctors Report — created by Knox Spencer Associates — allows you to easily see the most prevalent illnesses in your area. Available as both an app and website, Doctors Report tracks 15 conditions — both contagious diseases and other spreading health risks — with future plans to add even more. This includes Flu A, pneumonia, bronchitis, strep throat, and more.
Questioning the Value of Health Apps
“There’s just no plausible medical way that some of these apps could work,” said Nathan Cortez, an expert in medical technology law and regulation at Southern Methodist University’s law school in Dallas. In an editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine last summer, Mr. Cortez cautioned that unreliable and unregulated health apps could pose a significant threat.
Advice to My E-Coach
My smartphone wants to tell me what to do. I have some suggestions of my own.
Apple's First 5 Health ResearchKit Apps in Brief
Now you can join a medical study—or five—without setting foot in a hospital. Here are the apps for that.
Are medical apps on your smartphone good for your health?
Handheld digital tools that record vital signs are revolutionising healthcare, allowing people to be monitored at home, but also raising concerns.
Health Apps Really Do Help People Exercise More, Eat Better, Study Finds
If you're in the habit of checking your phone regularly, take note: It could actually improve your health, if you start using the right apps.
How Apps Can Help Manage Chronic Diseases
Hospitals and doctors have identified digital tools that can assist patients in dealing with ailments such as diabetes, heart disease and lung disease. The early results are promising.
The Future of Medicine Is in Your Smartphone
New tools are tilting health-care control from doctors to patients.
These Medical Apps Have Doctors and the FDA Worried
ILTIFAT HUSAIN HAS seen an awful lot of sickness and injury during his time as an emergency room doctor, but lately, he's worried about something new. He's worried about the ill effects of mobile healthcare apps.
Things are looking app
Mobile health apps are becoming more capable and potentially rather useful
Top 12 Health And Fitness Apps To Get You To Your Goals In 2017
Are you running the same route, eating the same grilled chicken and veggies for dinner, or listening to the same playlists over and over? Anyone can fall into a rut, but it’s time to push past the monotony and re-energize your habits. Choose among these 12 apps to find inspiration and ideas to eat, exercise and, yes, sleep better every day.
Wearables Are Totally Failing the People Who Need Them Most
It’s a shame because the people who could most benefit from this technology—the old, the chronically ill, the poor—are being ignored. Indeed, companies seem more interested in helping the affluent and tech-savvy sculpt their abs and run 5Ks than navigating the labyrinthine world of the FDA, HIPAA, and the other alphabet soup bureaucracies.
What Isn’t There an App For?
I recently spent three weeks trying to improve my life through apps. First, I diagnosed myself; I determined that I have bodily ills, household ills and wardrobe ills. Then I started Googling.
When Medical Apps Do More Harm Than Good
Replacing clinic visits with smartphones can be a risky move. Here's why.
Will An App A Day Keep The Doctor Away? The Coming Health Revolution
Before long, all of those devices will be sending real-time data about you to your doctors, nutritionists and trainers. Subjective medical findings will be bolstered by cold, hard stats on the continuous state of your health. In short, we’re headed for a world of truly personalized medicine, practiced from a central hub in the cloud. In the not-to-distant future, we will talk to our doctors more often via a mobile phone than in an office, saving time for patients and doctors alike. The result will be a more efficient system: By some estimates, 25-30% of today’s doctor visits could be replaced by phone, text, and digital check-ins.
Yes, those free health apps are sharing your data with other companies
Privacy concerns as study finds 20 most popular health-tracking apps sharing data with nearly 70 advertising and analytics firms.
Your Mental Health Could Use a Personal Trainer, Too
The app draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a form of psychotherapy that draws connections between how we perceive situations and the emotions we feel about them. If you can identify negative thinking patterns, the idea goes, you can change those habits and thus the way you behave and ultimately feel.
Power to the Patient: Health Apps, Data & Biosensors Redefine Healthcare
New biosensors, health data, digital access – not to mention, expectations – are redefining the doctor-patient relationship one app at a time.
iMedicalApps
The iMedicalApps Team consists of a group of physicians and medical students who provide commentary and reviews of mobile medical technology and applications. Our reviews and commentary are based on our own experiences in the hospital and clinic setting.
101 Best iPhone Apps
101 Best iPhone apps is a site dedicated to giving you a rating of each and every app there is out there.
MobiHealthNews
MobiHealthNews, founded in 2008, has quickly become the leading provider of news, commentary, online events and research for the global mobile health community. Our team works hard to deliver one of the best curated and most insightful publications focused on digital health today.
Doctor's Report
created by Knox Spencer Associates — allows you to easily see the most prevalent illnesses in your area. Available as both an app and website, Doctors Report tracks 15 conditions — both contagious diseases and other spreading health risks — with future plans to add even more. This includes Flu A, pneumonia, bronchitis, strep throat, and more.
Health
The new Health app gives you an easy‑to‑read dashboard of your health and fitness data. And we’ve created a new tool for developers called HealthKit, which allows all the incredible health and fitness apps to work together, and work harder, for you. It just might be the beginning of a health revolution.
MyTherapy
MyTherapy: Your personal pill reminder and medication tracker app.
A Healthier Me
A Healthier Me is a step by step, day by day program that helps you change your habits and enjoy a healthier and happier lifestyle. And it’s all in the palm of your hand.
Allergy
Effects of allergies can range from annoying to debilitating to life threatening. It’s not just itchy eyes and hives–allergies can ruin your day. They can even put you in the hospital. These apps can help you keep track of what might trigger your allergies.
Alme Health Coach
Create a connection that goes beyond a pill reminder.
CareConnector
The CareConnector is an iPhone application designed for caregivers on the go. It gives you information at your fingertips to make caregiving easier.
CareZone
CareZone makes it simpler to take care of yourself and your family. Keep everything organized and easily coordinate with the people that matter to you.
Clinical Trials
Do you need a faster, more convenient way of searching for clinical trials? Clinical Trials.app is a powerful search tool that provides mobile access to more than 86,000 registered clinical trials from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health database.
Eponyms
Are you a doctor or medical professional? This is the iPhone version of Andrew Yee’s huge eponym database consisting of over 1,600 medical eponyms.
First Opinion
Our mission is to reimagine the way everyone visits the doctor. Never again ask, "Do I need a doctor?" If you're ever wondering, the answer is "Yes!" Text a doctor and ask them what they think. Standing by 24-hours a day, our doctors are personal and ready to listen and help.
Health IQ
Discover your Health IQ, the most comprehensive measurement of your health knowledge. Uncover your strengths in over 300 topics and 10,000 questions, compare yourself to experts and learn tips from the health conscious community.
HealthKit
HealthKit allows apps that provide health and fitness services to share their data with the new Health app and with each other. A user’s health information is stored in a centralized and secure location and the user decides which data should be shared with your app.
HealthTap
For members, we connect you directly with the best health information and the best doctors, from your mobile device or on the web. Here at HealthTap, there’s no waiting room.
Healthvana
We believe that healthcare systems should talk to each other so you and your patients always have actionable health information at your fingertips.
Healthy Selfie
The Health and Fitness Social Network.
iTriage
iTriage is healthcare in your hand. With iTriage you have access to medical information from over 300 symptoms, 1000 diseases and 350 medical procedures.
Kinsa
Family Health Tracking Made Simple. "Kinsa wants to change how we glean information about our health, starting with the world's most common medical device" - Fast Company
Klara
Provides the fastest and most convenient way to contact a dermatologist online.
MedCalc
MedCalc is a free medical calculator, that gives you easy access to a wide array of medical formulas, scores and classifications.
Medical Encyclopedia
The University of Maryland Medical Center has assembled 50000 pages of in-depth information including diseases, symptoms, injuries, surgeries, nutrition and tests.
MindBody Connect
This app is for anyone who loves wellness. Whether you want a great workout, a chance to relax, or just to feel beautiful, the perfect place is waiting. Use MINDBODY Connect to find it, book it instantly, and even pay—right from your phone. Once you find a place you love, save it as your favorite, and book your next visit in seconds.
Propeller Health
Propeller is the leading mobile platform for respiratory health management. Through sensors, mobile apps and services, Propeller helps reduce the cost of care while delivering better quality of life for individuals with chronic respiratory disease
ResearchKit
Medical researchers are doing some of the most important work in the world, and they’re committed to making life-changing discoveries that benefit us all. To help, we’ve created ResearchKit, an open source software framework that makes it easy for researchers and developers to create apps that could revolutionize medical studies, potentially transforming medicine forever.
SocialWellth
How do you best navigate the more than 165,000 mobile health apps to provide the best-in-class to your consumers? How do you utilize those apps and connected devices to actively engage your consumers in their own health? Contact us today to get started in creating a unique and integrated digital health, wellness, and lifestyle experience.
Vitals
Vitals turns information into knowledge that helps you make better health decisions. We believe that when patients are able to find the right doctor or health facility, it leads to trusted relationships, improved care and better overall health.
WebMD
Medically reviewed information when you need it the most.
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