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Archive for February, 2010
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MedApps nominated to become Technology Pioneer
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsMedApps, a leading provider of remote health monitoring solutions, announced today that it has been nominated as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer candidate for the class of 2011. Last year companies such as Corventis and MicroCHIPS were named as Technology Pioneers. The World Economic... -
Puma Phone announced at MWC
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No CommentsOne of the stand out handsets of this year’s Mobile World Congress came from an unlikely source. As HTC announced the Legend and Desire (successor to the Hero and Nexus One clone respectively) sportswear manufacturer Puma were drawing crowds of their own with the imaginatively... -
Verity, the mobile phone that can ask: ‘Are you OK?’
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsA Yorkshire based company named iMonSys is developing what seems to be fairly unique mHealth product codenamed ‘Verity’. On the surface ‘Verity’ is like a number of other telecare products on the market; a worn sensor which connects to a mobile phone which can contact... -
Mobile health to drive mobile subscriptions
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsThe ITU announced yesterday at Mobile World Congress that they expect mobile cellular subscriptions to continue their growth in 2010. With 4.6 billion subscriptions being registered by the end of 2009 that number is expected to exceed 5 billion come the same time next year;... -
GSMA and Continua Health Alliance forge mHealth relationship
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsThe GSMA announced a number of important updates to its Embedded Mobile Initiative at Mobile World Congress this year. One such update was the announcement of a partnership with the Continua Health Alliance to promote the use of embedded mobile devices in healthcare. The Embedded... -
Siemens bringing Microsoft HealthVault to German market
Posted on February 4, 2010 | 1 CommentSiemens and Microsoft have signed a licensing agreement which would see the Microsoft HealthVault introduced to the German market. Siemens will be the exclusive operator of HealthVault in Germany and will market the platform to developers, application providers and device manufacturers with a view to... -
Mobile health innovators working together on Haitian relief
Posted on February 2, 2010 | No CommentsA group of health innovators announced today that they will be working together in partnership bringing a telehealth ecosystem to Haiti that will provide remote health monitoring equipment and infrastructure solutions. A&D Engineering, Advanced Warning Systems, Digicel, MedApps and Nonin will be launching their mHealth... -
Text messaging to modify health behaviours
Posted on February 2, 2010 | No CommentsA new company called Mobile Health Interventions has announced the launch of two new health text messaging initiatives: Health Txts and Custom Txts. Health Txts is designed to help people change their unhealthy behaviours by sending regular text messages to encourage specific behaviours. For example,...