It used to be that consumers worried considerably about security issues of their smartphones and other mobile devices to communicate or store medical information. Today, though, 58 percent of U.S.

Emerging smart mobile health (or mHealth) technologies are changing the way patients track information related to diagnosed conditions. A new study examined the health and economic impacts of mHealth ...

A study in Mobile Media & Communication found mHealth interventions can help treat vulnerable HIV populations. Archana Kishnan, PhD, a communications researcher at University at Albany-State ...

Tailored mobile health technology may ensure safety of care for patients with complex chronic diseases, according to a forthcoming study in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Children whose parents were more engaged with an intervention focused on obesity saw greater results compared with children whose parents were less engaged. For mobile health (mHealth) interventions ...

A gap exists between the wide variety of mobile health applications in the marketplace and the number that address the needs of patients who could benefit the most, a new survey found. Ubiquitous ...

Mobile health (mHealth) and a patient activation program could serve as a model for improving health outcomes for patients in outpatient clinical settings by decreasing atherosclerotic cardiovascular ...

An explosion of new mobile health apps offers consumers an unprecedented level of choice, but clinical utility is still lacking for those with chronic conditions. Although there is a rapidly growing ...

Better privacy and security is needed for the true benefits of smartphone-based health technology to be realized, especially in light of increasing consumer interest and tool advancements. A Dartmouth ...

Monitoring the symptoms of a large cohort of asthma patients is made possible by a smartphone app created using Apple ResearchKit. The world of bits continues to transform the world of medicine. In ...