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MIT health-monitoring app gets investor notice
mHealth newcomer Ginger.io , a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab, just emerged from TechStar's three-month incubation program in Boston to debut an intriguing new smartphone app. The company says the
Inventor of single-electrode wireless EEG monitor named to MIT innovators list
If you read FierceMobileHealthcare regularly, you know about our fascination with the mobile healthcare community in and around San Diego. (This time next week, your intrepid editor will be on a
MIT open-source phone project wins first mHealth Alliance Award
We're big fans of innovative applications of simple technology to address complex health problems in areas short on resources, so we're excited to hear that a project developed at MIT has won
MIT course leads to innovative mobile health applications
In the short time FierceMobileHealthcare has been around, we've written plenty about the potential for basic cell phones to improve healthcare in developing countries that lack the resources of the
iPhone app tracks swine flu outbreaks
There are so many new healthcare-related iPhone apps sprouting up each week that we can't possibly write about all of them, but one really jumped out at us--possibly because of who's behind it, but
Study: EMR adoption lower in states with tough privacy laws
States with tough privacy laws that restrict disclosure of patient data tend to have lower rates of EMR adoption, and the relationship may not be a coincidence, a new study suggests. Writing in the
Sensors in mobile phones offer new public-health opportunities
California-based not-for-profit InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters) is testing open-source software to share, aggregate and analyze data sent via text message from
SPOTLIGHT: Creator of mobile public health surveillance software wins inventor's award
The creator of a widely used, breakthrough software tool for mobile collection of public health data and disease surveillance in developing countries has won a prestigious inventor's award for
