The number of mHealth apps has exploded in recent years, in part due to the extremely low barriers to creating simple apps and distributing them widely. Such apps often deal with data that would be carefully secured in most other … Read More
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Crowd-Sourced Health With Smartphones
In Beijing, expatriates check the air quality more frequently than the weather. On a worse than average day, many residents will avoid exercising outside, while the worst days demand minimizing time spent outside for any purpose. But accurate, localized pollution … Read More
Apple’s HealthKit
At the recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the company revealed their new Health app and and HealthKit platform, to be released as part of iOS 8 this fall. Together, they will aggregate users’ health information and make it easier to … Read More
Net Neutrality and TeleHealth
A battle is raging over net neutrality that threatens to reach the magnitude of the SOPA/PIPA debacle of 2011. Net neutrality is the concept that all data from content providers (companies like Netflix and Google) are treated equally by internet … Read More
Should Medicine be on Social Media?
The Mayo Clinic broke from established research publishing procedure by using Twitter to announce the upcoming release of an article on Celiac Disease—in 2009. Staff tracked followers’ response to the Tweet and used this information to distribute the study to … Read More