Homewood Human Solutions™ Goes Completely Mobile!
New app set to transform delivery of employee health and wellness services Toronto, ON, November 26, 2012 — There’s a new app in town that makes accessing a complete range of health and wellness...
View ArticleDaily tracking results on American’s use of the internet for health...
Daily tracking results on American’s use of the internet, in terms of health and related information-seeking Telephone interviews by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, between August 9...
View ArticleAre smartphones the fastest spreading technology ever?
Need more reason to adopt mobile technologies in the context of your healthcare and health information solutions? Michael DeGusta for MIT Technology Review (May 9, 2012) writes “…smart phones, after a...
View ArticleHow healthy is the market for paid apps?
Is the market for paid apps declining? Despite a surge in demand for smartphones and, consequently, mobile apps, the average revenue for paid applications has been declining in recent years. In 2012,...
View ArticleIn mobile health, address real problems, not promote hype
According to Susannah Fox, healthcare research guru at the Pew Internet and American Life Project, despite the widespread and increasing adoption of smartphones, the number of adults who have...
View ArticleApplying gamification principles in mHealth
For those familiar with earlier posts on our blog about gamification, the name “Jane McGonigal” will be familiar. Jane is an award-winning game designer with a vision to incorporate positive psychology...
View ArticleAt what point do we evaluate our mHealth apps?
There are a dramatically increasing number of choices in the apps market to help users lose weight, quit smoking, monitor their health, track fitness, manage stress, and so on. But how does a consumer...
View ArticleA Reality Checkpoint for Mobile Health: Three Challenges to Overcome
The use of mobile electronic devices to support medical or public health practice, or m-health, is currently a hot topic. It has been predicted that by 2017 there will be “more mobile phones than...
View ArticleHealth care providers are increasing their use of mobile and social media tools
From the increasing number of surveys and statistics on mobile health tool utilization, it is clear that a growing number of health care providers are adopting mobile technologies. And at a fairly...
View ArticleA Social-First Fitness App
First social networking fitness app. We don’t usually provide coverage of a health app, and do not endorse or have any ties to this app, but a game changer was released today. Capitalizing on the...
View ArticleRating your Canadian hospital: A first. And a call to action for health...
Announced today by CBC’s Fifth Estate: Rate your hospital: online tool a 1st for Canadians. We are fascinated by the development. With the popularity of digital technology, consumers are becoming more...
View ArticleCanadian (Veterans) PTSD App reviewed
We don’t typically mention specific apps on the Healthy Workplaces blog, but this positive event invites mention because it is a Canadian government mHealth (mobile health) initiative. Veterans Affairs...
View ArticleApp review and certification process does a 180!
This is really interesting…what a surprising turn of events. Recall Happtique, the subsidiary of the Greater New York Hospital Association’s for-profit arm that we blogged of just days back? This was...
View ArticleReaching new and current audiences through our social media
Reaching new and current audiences through our social media At our most recent conference presentation (check it out on SlideShare at...
View ArticlemHealth updates…new kudos; new concerns
mHealth updates…new kudos; new concerns HealthStrong First to Deploy New Connected Health Wireless Platform for Fitness and Weight Management Connected Health, a provider of health monitoring...
View ArticleExclusive: Apple is now rejecting new medical apps that include drug dosages
Exclusive: Apple is now rejecting new medical apps that include drug dosages A development we did NOT expect would be happening (possibly if the FDA were cracking down more at this time, but they are...
View ArticleIn lieu of the FDA’s recent inquiry into the uCheck urine analyzer app
Article link: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ResourcesforYou/Industry/ucm353513.htm From the article that is the subject of the FDA investigation/removal: It has come to our attention that you are...
View ArticleApp features we are excited to see
As promised yesterday, we present intriguing info today. One of the challenges of changing behavior via apps, social media sites, etc., is the near-guaranteed high dropout/loss of motivation rate....
View ArticleNew smartphone app helps friends keep healthy
Another potentially great discovery approaching health-related behaviour change fro an angle involving social support, rather than isolated/singular use as most are used as. From what we can gather,...
View ArticleJust released IMPORTANT: Online Alzheimer’s tests unreliable
We’ve just learned of the findings into the accuracy of online diagnoses for Alzheimer’s Disease, via media release from the Alzheimer’s Association. Julie Robillard, UBC postdoc fellow in...
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