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December 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Robert Kaplan, PhD, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Institutes of Health was a recent keynote speaker at the mHealth Summit that focused on new mobile technologies for tracking and potentially improving h ...
December 7, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The one sure thing about the mHealth summit is that this is a field still in its early days. But attendance of first-time exhibitors Verizon, Qualcomm and AT&T, who each showed some new health monitoring apps and connectivity systems, was good news ...
December 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
This morning, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, delivered the keynote address at the mHealth Summit, and announced the new Healthy Apps Challenge, in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to ...
December 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
After a soft launch a few months ago, yesterday the National Cancer Institute officially introduced SmokefreeTXT, a free (for those with unlimited texting plans) smoking cessation service that provides 24/7 encouragement, advice, and tips to teens t ...
December 5, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Not surprisingly, there were some striking numbers tossed around on morning one of the third annual mHealth Summit today, including the number of worldwide Facebook users—800 million—and the percentage of U.S. households with cell phones—about 90 pe ...
December 5, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The third annual mHealth Summit starts today. The summit brings together more than 3,600 leaders in government, the private sector, academia, health care providers and not-for-profit organizations to advance collaboration in the use of wireless tech ...
December 2, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Next week, the third annual mHealth Summit, the largest event of its kind, brings together leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers and not-for-profit organizations to advance collaboration in the use of wireless tech ...
November 29, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A webinar convened today by Text4baby, a two-year-old project founded by partners that include the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, shows the program is getting moms’ attention. ...
November 29, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
The December 5-7 mHealth Summit is approaching and I’m pleased and excited to be moderating the special session: What I Really Need from mHealth: Five Perspectives on Value. Pioneer has been involved with multiple aspects of mHealth since very early ...
November 22, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Sometimes things just come together. We funded the first mHealth Summit because it was interesting and pioneering, and it seemed to have a connection to a few of our Project HealthDesign grants. Then came our involvement with and support of Quantifi ...