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APP REVIEW: VueMe allows patients to view medical images from their mobiles
Gone are the days of doctors and other medical professionals keeping patients in the dark about their health, now people want to know everything about their bodies, the treatment they’re being recommended and the possible side affects further down the line. Technology gives all kinds of patients even more freedom when it comes to understanding problems with their health, which is where apps like VueMe come in handy. Launched last June, VueMe is basically a way … Read entire article »
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MapMyFITNESS launches app for new Facebook Timeline
One of the largest and most popular health and fitness communities, MapMyFITNESS, has this week launched an app to integrate it’s users’ health and fitness data into Facebook’s new Timeline. The dedicated application will allow users to share all kinds of health stats, goals, achievements and fitness activities with their friends. We imagine this will be really beneficial and could encourage some people to push themselves that little bit harder or connect others with friends that … Read entire article »
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iHealth Dock and App lets you monitor your blood pressure from the comfort of your own home
From time to time, we all wish we had the necessary devices that would help us keep track on our health from the comfort of our own homes. Especially when it comes to taking ones blood pressure, which a lot of us get told to do by the doctors. The iHealth Blood Pressure Dock looks like any other iPhone/iPad charging device, but accompanied with the Blood Pressure Monitor app, it is the blood pressure test of … Read entire article »
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Kaiser Permanente: Will all our medical records soon be accessible via an app?
In the UK some of our medical information is transferred between GP surgeries, hospitals and medical centres via computer, but some we have to carry around on our health cards and letters and some we seem to just have to remember and repeat again and again whenever we meet a new doctor or nurse. Although the system is probably meant to work much more smoothly than that often it doesn’t and important medical history about … Read entire article »
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Be cautious when trying out new health and fitness apps
There are so many different apps on the market today that have been specially designed to keep us on the right track when it comes to our fitness and overall health. The new year has seen even more being launched that promise to motivate us all and help us stick to those tricky resolutions too. However, an article published recently over at USA Today warns people that a lot of these applications need to be approached with … Read entire article »
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Will the Macaw app be your ultimate mobile health hub?
From sleep managers to diet trackers, more and more people are becoming increasingly interested in monitoring their personal health on a daily basis, using their mobile phones and a range of other fancy gadgets. Last week during the 2011 mHealth Summit, an app called Macaw was introduced, which is set to make waves in the mobile health market as it acts as the ultimate personal health hub for users who want to keep track of every … Read entire article »
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APP SPOTLIGHT: Happtique is world’s first health app superstore
Mobile health (also known as mHealth or telehealth) is a really wide term and can be anything from a doctor keeping track of your illness on an iPad, a new surveillance program to improve pregnancy care in developing countries or just a text message reminder to take your contraceptive pill in the morning from your local clinic. As most GPs and hospitals aren’t readily introducing this kind of mobile technology into our visits (just think … Read entire article »
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