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Global annual sensor shipments for mobile sensing health and fitness devices will reach 515 million in 2017, up from 107 million in 2012, according to an announcement from ON World. By 2017, there will be 1.4 billion mobile sensing health and fitness app downloads globally, with health apps increasing the fastest over the next five years. Read Original Content
According to Black Book Rankings, eight percent of office-based physicians use either a mobile device for electronic prescribing, accessing records, ordering tests or viewing results. However, 83 percent indicated they would immediately utilize mobile EHR functionalities to update patient charts, check labs and order medications if available to them via their EHR. Read Original Content
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report suggests that in the years to come, U.S. mobile health development will trail developing countries like South Africa, India, and Brazil, and another PwC report predicts a $46.6 million health app market in Brazil by 2015. Read Original Content
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According to an Ohio State University study, one-third of 222 pain management-related apps had no obvious input from a health care professional, while one-third of such apps had an indeterminate amount of input from a medical professional. Researchers say the findings underscore the need for better oversight of mobile health apps. Read Original Content
According to Juniper Research's Mobile Health Opportunities Report, public and private healthcare providers will be able to save between $1.96 billion and $5.83 billion in healthcare costs through the use of remote patient monitoring using cellular networks by the year 2014. Read Original Content
The Food and Drug Administration has taken its first action against a mobile app maker for failure to obtain pre-marketing clearance. Late last week the FDA sent a letter to Biosense Technologies Private Limited, asking the company to either identify an FDA clearance for its uChek urine analyzer app or explain why it does not believe FDA clearance is required. Read Original Content
The total global market for remote patient monitoring is currently estimated at nearly $22 billion and is expected to be worth $46 billion by 2017, according to a whitepaper released by MarketResearch.com. Read Original Content
Patient monitoring systems with advanced features, especially wireless or remote capability, are among the fastest-growing medical devices. The aging population and the associated increases in diseases such as congestive heart disease and diabetes as well as the cost of treating those conditions, is driving sales of these devices. Read Original Content
Preventice has announced the commercial availability of its BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System. Developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, BodyGuardian uses sophisticated algorithms to support remote monitoring for individuals with cardiac arrhythmias and allows physicians to monitor key biometrics outside of the clinical setting, while patients go about their daily lives. Read Original Content
Health apps that offer medical advice, remedies and doses should be vetted so they do not endanger lives or give biased or misleading information, the Australian Medical Association said. The association also said the people who approved apps (at Apple and Google) should be part of the responsibility chain, and it would be good to have medical expertise on the approval bodies. Read Original Content
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