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11/6/15 - 58% of Smartphone Owners Download, Use Mobile Health Apps

11/6/15 58% of Smartphone Owners Download, Use Mobile Health Apps

mHealthIntelligence.com

The respondents who did not use mobile health apps cited their “lack of interest,” prices of the applications, and security concerns regarding data collection.

8/14/15 - WSU biomedical engineering students invent remote health ...

8/14/15 WSU biomedical engineering students invent remote health ...

News-Medical.net

It also reduces costs for PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) ... That saves time and money on costly hospital visits and further health ...

8/3/15 - Integrated treatment required for diabetes-eating disorder combination

8/3/15 Integrated treatment required for diabetes-eating disorder combination

News-Medical.net

As they reach their teens, many with type 1 diabetes discover that the disease provides a secret weapon for losing weight. By restricting or reducing the amount ...

6/8/15 - Drexel debuts a kiosk for mental health

6/8/15 Drexel debuts a kiosk for mental health

Philly.com

Anna Gibbons, a sophomore, demonstrates the mental-health kiosk at ... (A second will go online at the health clinic later.) ... Each kiosk costs about $5,000.

2/11/15 - Changes proposed to improve research on health information ...

2/11/15 Changes proposed to improve research on health information ...

Medical Xpress

Studies about the value of health information technology can be improved by broadening the reviews to include both costs and benefits, and lengthening study ...

1/19/15 - School cafeterias use technology to create healthy eating 'report card'

1/19/15 School cafeterias use technology to create healthy eating 'report card'

Medical Xpress

The program is called Healthy School Meals Realized through Technology ... the high cost of healthy food and difficulty convincing children to eat healthy food.

12/16/14 - Study: Virtual Visits Could Significantly Cut US Health Care Costs

12/16/14 Study: Virtual Visits Could Significantly Cut US Health Care Costs

California Healthline

Virtual health care visits are associated with lower costs than traditional in-office visits and could result in Medicare savings, according to a study released Friday ...

10/7/14 - Study: New Device for Heart Failure Safely Improves Heart Function ...

10/7/14 Study: New Device for Heart Failure Safely Improves Heart Function ...

HealthCanal.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new, implantable device to control heart failure is showing promising results in the first trial to determine safety and effectiveness in ...

10/6/14 - Study: Telehealth Cuts Readmissions, Costs for Heart Failure Patients

10/6/14 Study: Telehealth Cuts Readmissions, Costs for Heart Failure Patients

iHealthBeat

Using telehealth devices to remotely monitor patients with congestiveheart failure could help reduce hospital readmissions and cut costs, according to a study ...

8/14/14 - Exact Sciences Wins U.S. Approval for Home Colon Cancer Test

8/14/14 Exact Sciences Wins U.S. Approval for Home Colon Cancer Test

Bloomberg

(EXAS) won U.S. regulatory approval to sell the first noninvasive DNA ... Wisconsin-based Exact Sciences' test at home and those who have positive ...

8/13/14 - Teachers play key role in program to fight childhood obesity

8/13/14 Teachers play key role in program to fight childhood obesity

Medical Xpress

"In the past twenty years, childhood obesity rates have skyrocketed," said FPG investigator Allison De Marco. "And for the first time in over a century, children's ...

7/29/14 - Congenital heart disease specialists develop nonsurgical technique ...

7/29/14 Congenital heart disease specialists develop nonsurgical technique ...

Medical Xpress

A new technique for repairing the most common cardiac birth defect in ... Heart Program led by Evan M. Zahn, MD, an expert in congenital heart disease.

7/21/14 - Heavy Preschoolers, Parents Treated Together Can Lower BMIs

7/21/14 Heavy Preschoolers, Parents Treated Together Can Lower BMIs

Medscape

(The PEAs were embedded part-time in each patient-centered medical home to help recruit and implement the study. PEAs held a master's or bachelor's degree ...

6/17/14 - US Hospital Study Aims to Rapidly Test Lung Cancer Drugs

6/17/14 US Hospital Study Aims to Rapidly Test Lung Cancer Drugs

Boston.com

A bold new way to test cancer drugs started Monday in hundreds of hospitals around the U.S. In a medical version of speed dating, doctors will sort through ...

6/16/14 - Medical records at your fingertips

6/16/14 Medical records at your fingertips

Boston Globe

Websites and apps allow users to store health records online ... keeping their own records might also lead to a reduction in the nation's healthcare costs. A 2008 ...

4/25/14 - New approach for surgery patients cuts hospital stays and costs

4/25/14 New approach for surgery patients cuts hospital stays and costs

Duke Medicine News and Communications

Changes in managing patients before, during and after colorectal surgery cut hospital stays by ...

3/13/14 - Can Mobile Technology Cut Health Costs?

3/13/14 Can Mobile Technology Cut Health Costs?

National Journal

Researchers at the Brookings Institution studied China and the United States—two countries that face similar challenges in reducing health care costs due to ...

3/10/14 - Co-Op Insurer Carves Out Unique Niche in NJ's ACA Marketplace

3/10/14 Co-Op Insurer Carves Out Unique Niche in NJ's ACA Marketplace

NJ Spotlight

The two other insurers selling coverage through New Jersey's federal health .... Bronze plans cover about 60 percent of health costs, while the next tier of silver ...

2/19/14 - CBT for Insomnia Effective, Saves Healthcare Costs

2/19/14 CBT for Insomnia Effective, Saves Healthcare Costs

Medscape

 

Sleep improved in most insomnia patients who completed at least 3 sessions of CBTi, and their healthcare utilization decreased andhealthcare-related costs fell ...

2/5/14 - New study: Florida's networks control health costs better than Medicaid

2/5/14 New study: Florida's networks control health costs better than Medicaid The News Herald Results from a study of Florida's Medicaid Reform Pilot Project show that provider service networks, which the state intends to implement this year throughout the ...