For women across the globe the experience of pregnancy is normally one filled with happiness and excitement. However for those in remote and poverty stricken regions the experience can be filled with anxiety, especially due to the general lack of …
There have been a fair few articles predicting 2013 will be the year of telehealth, also known as remote monitoring. Partly of course there is a tradition for such pronouncements at the start of the year. This time, say its …
By Richard Handford A new survey that revealed mobile app stores are well stocked with dubious claims and unlikely treatments should come as a surprise to no-one. The New England Center for Investigative Reporting examined 1,500 paid-for mobile apps of …
At Medullan, we recently surveyed 106 healthcare providers, insurers and other healthcare-related organizations on their mHealth strategies and drivers. Continue reading
by Richard Handford An increase in the life expectancy of a country’s population is always a cause of celebration, right? Not if you are a pensions provider. Hence they are likely to be raising a small cheer because the number …
Despite its title, Jody Ranck’s recently-published Connected Health: How Mobile Phones, Cloud and Big Data will reinvent Healthcare moves beyond a standard analysis of the connected health market to get to grips with the politics, in the widest sense, that …
At the start of this month Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech to a health conference in which he said the UK government would consult on changing NHS rules so that patient data could be made more readily available to pharmaceutical companies for research. Continue reading
By Ben Chodor A recent study by PwC show that over 50 percent of patients believe mHealth will make healthcare substantially more convenient as well as improving how they seek information on health issues. And they’re not alone. Doctors who …
The presence of McDonald’s and Cadbury, among others, as sponsors at the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics has attracted some controversy. Obesity is now, after all, a global concern. The figures are bad and bear some repeating. If current trends continue …
So it’s official – no one knows if the first major study published into the results of the UK’s Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) telehealth trial proves if it was a success or not. Or, more accurately, no observers can agree …
