March 19, 2013 6:11 pm by Stephanie Baum
The benefits of regulation. Retail exemptions. Does a chip in apps for clinical uses impact the classification of that chip in a recreational heath app? Will mobile health app developers follow their medical device colleagues offshore to escape th...

By Kathlyn Stone, About.com Guide According to healthcare recruitment firm Jackson & Coker, almost 80 percent of U.S. physicians are using tablet PCs and smartphones in their daily work. Manhattan Research found that 62 percent of U.S. physicians are using tablets, primarily iPads. A survey ...

  PITTSBURGH, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) today announced that it has launched the first ever app of its Generic Brand Reference® (GBR) Guide, a free reference and educational tool that helps U.S. health care professionals, patients and pharmacy students to quickly i...

App serves as a teaching tool and can provide guidance for treatment with Lilly Glucagon for Injection (rDNA origin) during severe hypoglycemic events [CHECK OUT THE APP NOW] INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- News Highlights Lilly Diabetes launches Lilly Glucagon Mobile App to su...

  Written by: Rhona Finkel A barrage of mobile health apps has descended upon the public in recent years. They come from health insurance companies, the telecom industry, the Department of Veteran Affairs. Seems like anyone who's anyone is involved in designing those apps and getting them out t...

Michael Spitz Zemoga Michael Spitz explores mobile health apps created by pharmaceutical companies. According to a new survey of pharmaceutical executives conducted by KPMG, 36% plan on using mobile health to gain customer insights, 31% to interact with customers, and 29% for recruitment and u...

  Written by Dave Chase With the proliferation of mHealth apps, it was only a matter of time before healthcare providers would start prescribing apps as soon as apps proved to be as or more effective than prescription drugs. Happtique, a mobile health application store and app management so...

What mobile health tools are currently offered at clinics? What future mobile health services are likely to find adoption at these healthcare facilities? Which mobile-enabled tools are these clinics offering patients? Which mobile health services have they equipped their workers with? Read this Mobi...

  Source: Mashable Children fighting cancer have to deal with chemotherapy, hair loss and hospital stays. Now, an iOS app is taking a bit of the load off their shoulders by making pain diaries — the daily log of their experience with the disease — easier to manage. Pain Squad is the first iO...

Source: MobiHealthNews According to a recent survey conducted by Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), 71 percent of nurses are already using smartphones for their job. The survey included responses from 3,900 nurses and nursing students. About 66 percent of those nursi...