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Nextgen Healthcare Information Systems and Microsoft have jointly developed and launched the Nextgen Medicine Cabinet app, which they say is the first app consumer-based health app designed for the Windows 8 platform.

Irish digital marketing agency Eightytwenty has joined forces with the Asthma Society of Ireland to create an app for asthma patients.

A quarter of participants in a showcase for tech start-ups in London were health-based firms, nearly all of whom saw mobile technology as central to their plans. And one of the health firms, Skin Analytics, was among the eventual winners of the event.

Bosch Healthcare is integrating handsets made by Doro, a vendor which specialises in models for older users, with its telecare service that enables a user to send an alarm from their phone during an emergency.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) will broaden an existing scheme to collect mother and child health data via mobile phone to additional poor municipalities in the Philippines.

A study has found that mobile phone messaging directed at smokers trying to quit the habit doubled the success rate over those quitters operating on their own.

UK health minister Jeremy Hunt said that as many as 100,000 patients with long-term conditions could be set up with telehealth technology so they can be remotely monitored in their homes from next year.