It used to be that consumers worried considerably about security issues of their smartphones and other mobile devices to communicate or store medical information. Today, though, 58 percent of U.S.

Tailored mobile health technology may ensure safety of care for patients with complex chronic diseases, according to a forthcoming study in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Mobile health (mHealth) and a patient activation program could serve as a model for improving health outcomes for patients in outpatient clinical settings by decreasing atherosclerotic cardiovascular ...

A new study examined the health and economic impacts of mHealth technologies on the outcomes of diabetes patients in Asia. The study concluded that compared to patients who did not use mHealth ...

A gap exists between the wide variety of mobile health applications in the marketplace and the number that address the needs of patients who could benefit the most, a new survey found. Ubiquitous ...

Children whose parents were more engaged with an intervention focused on obesity saw greater results compared with children whose parents were less engaged. For mobile health (mHealth) interventions ...

An explosion of new mobile health apps offers consumers an unprecedented level of choice, but clinical utility is still lacking for those with chronic conditions. Although there is a rapidly growing ...

Better privacy and security is needed for the true benefits of smartphone-based health technology to be realized, especially in light of increasing consumer interest and tool advancements. A Dartmouth ...

Monitoring the symptoms of a large cohort of asthma patients is made possible by a smartphone app created using Apple ResearchKit. The world of bits continues to transform the world of medicine. In ...

About 38 percent of consumers have begun to use mHealth, and users often share several key characteristics, according to a study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Researchers surveyed 1,132 ...