Mobile Health

Cattaraugus County moves closer to starting mobile mental health unit Buffalo News LITTLE VALLEY – The creation of a mobile crisis unit for the Cattaraugus County mental healthprogram is moving closer to becoming a reality. Under the plan, a team of Cattaraugus County residents, trained to deal with people in crisis, would be able ... See all stories on this topic »

Smartphone addiction risks health problems Gulf Times Researchers Andrew Lepp and Jacob E Barkley, associate professors in Kent State's College of Education, Health and Human Services, found college students who reported the highest mobileuse - averaging 14 hours a day - were less fit than those who ... See all stories on this topic »

UBC's Health-e-Apps project helps patients help themselves Vancouver Sun In the newly launched project Health-e-Apps — with the tag line “improve your health in a mobileminute” — the eHealth strategy office is reviewing health and wellness apps and encouraging smartphone and tablet users to try them out. And it's using ... See all stories on this topic »

Health care delivery revolution StarPhoenix Saskatchewan is an ideal setting to implement this mobile health-care technology as it has a large territory with many remote and underserviced communities, most of them First Nations. We have been pioneering such mobile technology that would allow the ... See all stories on this topic »

AP-HP Hospital Tenon, Paris, Reduces X-ray Dosage By 50% With Carestream ... Healthcare IT News Installation of a CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System has led to a 50% reduction in X-ray dosage at the 564-bed University Hospital Tenon, Paris, which is part of the public healthsystem APHP. Figures have been validated by a member of ... See all stories on this topic »

Demystifying the black box of data analytics Government Health IT Mobile health devices are allowing organizations to close the data gap on newly insured members with little to no clinical history. Incorporating data from mobile applications can help to improve the confidence levels for suspected risk adjustment and ... See all stories on this topic »

Cellphone operators welcome Kerala high court judgment Times of India MUMBAI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has welcomed the Kerala High Court order stating that there was no evidence of adverse effects on people's health due to EMF emissions from the antennas on mobile towers (mobile towers). See all stories on this topic »

Court hearing looms for state health centers Scranton Times-Tribune The department wants to rely more on mobile health teams dispatched from six regional offices to handle matters like flu immunizations at senior centers or scheduled community events. The department closed seven health centers so far and moved staff to ... See all stories on this topic »