mHealth Summit News
Sessions on designing consumer apps draw attendees
By Mary Mosquera, Senior Editor
When it comes to designing health applications for consumers, mHealth Summit attendees, it seems, just can't get enough.
StartUp Health roundtable seeks to foster innovation, overcome obstacles
By Eric Wicklund, Editor, mHIMSS
The healthcare landscape isn't a smooth one for health and wellness entrepreneurs. They're faced with mobile medical app regulations still being refined by federal authorities, investors wary of investing in the market, and hospital and healthcare executives who are reluctant to try new ideas.
Show reminder: Last day to register for key summit events
The deadline to sign up for the mHealth Summit's Keynote Luncheon, the Mobile Health Venture Fair and the Fierce Mobile Executive Breakfast Roundtable is 2 p.m. today. Sign up for these events at the show registration window.
Posted Sun, 12/04/2011 - 17:50 by admin2011 mHealth Summit Exhibit Hall: bigger than ever
By Diana Manos, Senior Editor
The theme for this year's mHealth Summit is "BIG." The exhibit space jumped 400 percent over last year and includes about 300 exhibitors, covering 30,000 square feet, said Richard Scarfo, director of the mHealth Summit at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), the non-profit that produces the annual event.
Vendor Profile: Beyond Lucid takes aim at first responders
By Eric Wicklund, Editor, mHIMSS
As far as the folks at Beyond Lucid Technologies are concerned, the beginning of the journey from the accident scene to the hospital is just as important as the end. A patient can't be treated successfully in the ER unless he or she gets proper care in the field. That's where the MediView platform comes in.
Vendor Profile: EXTENSION looks to connect all the mHealth dots
By Eric Wicklund, Editor, mHIMSS
A healthcare setting has many different endpoints, and they don't always get along with each other. If a mobile device can't integrate with a patient's electronic medical record, critical – possibly life-saving – data could be lost or unnecessarily siloed. The results could prove fatal.
mHealth Summit kicks off Monday in Washington, D.C.
By Eric Wicklund, Editor, mHIMSS
WASHINGTON – Interested observers have been keeping a close eye on the agenda of the mHealth Summit as it approaches, wondering if the event, in its third year, was attracting enough attention.
They needn't have worried.
Posted Wed, 11/30/2011 - 14:46 by adminHIMSS launches a new mobile health association - mHIMSS
By Jeff Rowe, Contributing Writer
In a time when new mobile health products and apps seem to appear daily in the healthcare marketplace, how can providers and other stakeholders ever hope to keep up?
That's the question the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) plans to answer. An organizing member of next week's mHealth Summit, HIMSS will show off its latest initiative, mHIMSS at the conference.
Posted Wed, 11/30/2011 - 14:45 by adminThe mHealth Summit: Taking a closer look at a global phenomenon
By Patty Mechael, PhD, MHS, executive director of the mHealth Alliance
In October, the United Nations reported that the world's population had reached 7 billion, and yet the WHO estimates there are only 9.2 million physicians globally. That's an average of roughly 760 people per physician, but it is by no means so evenly divided.
Posted Wed, 11/30/2011 - 13:46 by adminmFinance offers important lessons for mHealth
By René Letourneau, Managing Editor, Healthcare Finance News
Providing a greater understanding of the financial regulatory environment, emerging business models and evolving technologies that are shaping mHealth is the focus of the mFinance track at the mHealth Summit.
Posted Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:50 by admin