We had talked about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobile apps in general in a blog earlier. We had mentioned there that how, the mobile apps such as 1mg and Netmeds saw significant growth, much to the tune of 13% and 21% respectively in their customer base as well as revenue. In ... Read More »
Patients and healthcare suppliers over the globe have gone to the acknowledgment that depending exclusively on doctor’s facility frameworks will never again be a practical choice. Industry specialists are of the supposition that continuous advances in home healthcare gadgets and administrations will help ease the present weight on the ... Read More »
With thousands of apps available to consumers and mobile solutions being used in almost every medical center across the country, mobile health technology is a big industry projected to continue growing over the next few years. Statista reports that the global mobile health market will generate an estimated $28 billion in 2018. ... Read More »
The launch of the GP at Hand app-based primary care service in London has been met with accusations that it is damaging the NHS. The service is being run by a practice in Fulham, but people across central London are able to move their GP registration there. It offers video consultations 24/7 ... Read More »
February is Healthcare Month at FindBiometrics. Last week we started our focused coverage with a primer on this month-long topic, and it became clear that the most visible area of application for biometrics in the health space is patient ID and electronic health records. But biometrics do have uses beyond ... Read More »
Editor’s note: This series was written by Federico Sferrazza, digital marketing manager at Daxue Consulting, a market research company based in China. The images were created by Kevin Maher, co-founder of information design agency Diatom. Part 1 looks at the current problems with China’s healthcare. Part 2 will analyze how current technologies, particularly ... Read More »
THE smartphone is becoming the heart of healthcare with a new wave of Aussie-made apps that do everything from helping people to manage cancer treatment through to early-stage dementia. Matilda Kubany-Deane, a 22-year-old fine art and design student from Sydney who has been diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, uses the CancerAid app ... Read More »
Pharmaceutical manufacturers, payers and healthcare providers (HCPs)—as well as a host of tech-focused newcomers—are exploring digital programs that complement standard therapies and hold promise to keep patients healthier and produce better outcomes. Known as “beyond-the-pill” or “around-the-pill” services, they have been a long time coming, and may finally be gaining ... Read More »
Like a stubborn virus, the necessity for logins and passwords clings to us all. But advances in mobile phone technology and the initiatives of healthcare payers are making headway. Last month, Cigna became the latest payer to add authentication via fingerprint to its patient-facing mobile app. Now the MyCigna app ... Read More »
Healthcare organizations are moving fast to embrace mobile apps, with 82 percent implementing a mobile strategy, and 78 percent achieving positive ROI from mobile app investments already, according to a new survey published by open source software specialist Red Hat. In the coming year, Red Hat found, U.S. demand for ... Read More »
