By Sara Waldrop Jackson (on Fierce Mobile Healthcare) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just launched its first-ever app specifically enabled for iPads, CDC officials said today. The new app, called the CDC Mobile iPad Application, is optimized for iPad touchscreen functionality, offic...

Written by Brian Dolan In recent months a number of deals, acquisitions, service and product launches have led to a growing discussion around the mobile health opportunities for pharma companies. There seem to be three big ones vying for the top. Is it adding connectivity to clinical trials? Ea...

By Mitch on Thursday 5 January 2012, 19:45 Dozens of companies recall their medical devices every month. A recall happens when something wrong happened with the device, like a bad labeling or a bad sterilization. It's the responsibility of the manufacturer to warn ALL their customers and the govern...

mHealth promises to revolutionize the evolving health IT ecosystem MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Jan. 5, 2012 - The mobile health, or mHealth, app market is playing an integral part in transforming the progressing health care IT environment. mHealth continues to see substantial growth, and is expec...

by Michael Spitz (Ignite Health) If 2010 was the year social media trumped search as the predominant online activity, then 2011 will historically be characterized as the tipping point where mobile has proven itself as the location-independent digital future. Few doubt that in only a few more year...

Two years since the launch of Apple's iPad, the use of tablets and smartphones by business is growing at nearly 12 per cent a year, while the traditional PC business is shrinking two per cent, according to the UK's National Computing Centre. The ease of use of the devices, with features such as ...

Daniel Ghinn Creation Healthcare Social mobile app connects Pfizer with the right patients in the right place! There are no other emerging digital channels that capture the tension between opportunity and challenge for pharmaceutical companies in the way that mobile does today. On the one hand,...

WASHINGTON -- The FDA has released proposed guidance for oversight of medical applications used on smartphones and other mobile devices -- but not to worry, the FDA is casting a pretty small net. The agency emphasized that the guidance applies only to a subset of medical applications: Thos...

FDA NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: July 19, 2011 Media Inquiries: Erica Jefferson, 301-796-4988, erica.jefferson@fda.hhs.gov Amanda Sena, 301-796-0393, amanda.sena@fda.hhs.gov Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA outlines oversight of mobile medical applications Agency seeking public...

Pfizer's Les Meningo – Smash Pursuit - one of the iPhone apps no longer on iTunes Big pharma companies have pulled a number of apps from the iTunes store, but it’s not a sign the industry has fallen out of love with Apple’s iPhone. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Merck have withdrawn nin...