Today's consumers don't want to solely rely on yearly physicals or scattered drop-in appointments to monitor their health – they are seeking more individualized control over the way healthcare is ...

In an era of digitization, healthcare has a stronghold on harnessing innovation and connectivity to advance the field. Healthcare providers are finding ways to utilize smartphones, mobile devices, ...

A great number of healthcare practioners and patients alike remain wary of electronic health. Doctors claim that they don’t have enough time, and patients are concerned about their data going awry. As ...

AT&T and Vodafone are names we generally associate with calling plans rather than with healthcare. But with the rise of “mobile health” – the use of mobile communications technology in healthcare – ...

The study, conducted by Elissa Ozanne, PhD, at Dartmouth found that 11 of the 15 women, aged 45-79 years, interviewed before and after using the mHealth tool preferred it to a paper tool and found it ...

With the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference being held this week in New Orleans, it's amazing to see how far mHealth has come in gaining acceptance within an ...

Mobile healthcare must overcome three fundamental challenges if mHealth is to fulfill its promise of transforming the delivery of health services worldwide, argues an article in the journal PLoS ...