Eric Wicklund
Orca Health's platform offers 10 apps that doctors can personalize and prescribe for patients needing more information on health conditions or medical procedures.
A pair of San Francisco-based crowdsourcing companies are proving that the power of the people could be used to great effect in healthcare.
Covidien's newest software platform is designed to enable doctors in the hospital setting to pull data from devices at the bedside, determine what's important, then send that information on to the EMR.
San Diego-based Scripps Health's latest wireless health project involves using Sotera's ViSi Mobile wristbands to monitor as many as 30 patients at Scripps Green Hospital.
The power, promise and reach of mHealth innovation were on display at this week's summit.
Consumer interest in such devices as pedometers, activity bands and other wearable devices has tripled in the past year, according to a new CEA survey, while the industry is projected to top $1 billion in sales in 2014.
Type 1 diabetic cyclists in a 13-day tour of Europe this past fall were successfully monitored by a network of mHealth devices and solutions. The results were celebrated during a Tuesday afternoon session at the mHealth Summit.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus painted a picture of his native Bangladesh transformed by the smartphone during a Tuesday morning keynote at the mHealth Summit. Danish Health Minister Astrid Krag, meanwhile, saw mHealth as the key to her country's healthcare overhaul.
The health information provider announces an enhanced set of services for consumers, enabling them to buy wireless devices and manage biometric data through Qualcomm Life's 2net hub. The company also debuts a service through its Medscape platfrom that allows physicians to push resources through the app to their patients.
In a Monday morning mHealth Summit Executive Breakfast titled "The World is My Waiting Room," a panel of executive physicians with some of the largest integrated delivery networks in the nation made their case for mHealth, and said the physician needs to step up and lead this revolution.