Mobile Health Issue

Featured Report: eHealth Initiative: mHealth tools help diabetics manage their disease

Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Sept,21,2012
by: Julie Bird
Telemedicine, mobile health, patient web portals and social medial show "tremendous promise" to help socially disadvantage populations manage Type II diabetes, but health-care providers seem unsure how to fully leverage some of the technologies, according to a new report by the eHealth Initiative (eHI). Funded by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, eHI analyzed more than 100 peer-reviewed articles to glean how eHealth tools are impacting diabetes management.
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This Week's Healthcare News
iHealthBeat
Lawmaker Aims To Create New FDA Office of Mobile Health
Sept,27,2012
This month, Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) plans to introduce a bill that would establish a new FDA Office of Mobile Health, Kaiser Health News reports (Gold, Kaiser Health News, 9/26).
Background
Last year, FDA released a set of proposed guidelines on the regulation of certain mobile medical apps. According to FDA officials, oversight is necessary for apps that pose risks to patients if they do not work as designed (iHealthBeat, 4/17). Read more

Healthcare Info Security
VA to Award Mobile System Contract
Sept,27,2012
by: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
The Department of Veterans Affairs on Sept. 30 will award a contract for its long-awaited mobile device management system to support more than 100,000 devices, including smart phones and tablets. That includes VA-owned devices as well as the personal devices of employees and medical students. The contact for the system, which is essential to ensuring security when using mobile devices to access the VA's clinical information system, is one of several VA IT contracts that will be awarded before the end of the federal fiscal year, says VA CIO Roger Baker.
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MobiHealthNews
mHealth Alliance, UN award 8 grants for maternal, child health
Sept, 27, 2012
by: Neil Versel
Eight companies, programs and non-governmental organizations — including one associated with former President Bill Clinton — have received two-year “catalytic” grants to foster wider use of mobile technologies in the name of improving maternal and child health worldwide. The mHealth Alliance, a global project founded by the United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, joined with the UN’s Innovation Working Group to announce the grants Tuesday. The Innovation Working Group is a panel, co-chaired by the government of Norway and pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, tasked with identifying innovations that support the United Nations Every Woman Every Child effort to improve maternal and children’s health worldwide.
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