Walking is well known to have significant health benefits, but few people achieve the daily recommended steps. Fortunately, mobile health (mHealth) applications have emerged as promising tools to ...

Keeping pace with the penetration of mobile apps across all niches, mobile apps have also emerged as useful tools for healthcare and medical practices. Widely known as mHealth or mobile health apps, ...

The line between consumer a consumer mHealth app and a regulated medical device comes down to what kind of user data is being collected and how it’s being used. Reade Harpham When is an app more than ...

While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released guidelines for the regulation of mobile health (mHealth) apps that act as medical devices or as accessories to medical devices, the vast ...

mHealth apps may make chronic disease management easier mHealth apps can help empower patients and improve management of chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes and heart disease. Mobile health ...

These lifestyle improvements included adherence to the Mediterranean diet, improved frequency of healthy food consumption, increased physical activity, and quitting smoking, among other factors. For ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. & EDINBURGH, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Approov, creators of advanced API threat protection for mobile applications, today announced a March 4 Webinar that presents new data from ...

Mobile apps are ubiquitous in wellness and healthcare, driven by consumers eager for healthcare information at their fingertips. Hospitals, health systems and health insurance companies have embraced ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted principles to promote the use of "safe and effective" mobile health applications and related devices in clinical care. Although the association ...

Aiming to get "the professional side of things," HealthTap has released dozens of lists ranking the top apps recommended by physicians. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company surveyed more than 65,000 ...

Researcher testing of 30 mobile health apps for clinicians found that all of them had vulnerable APIs. Some 23 million mobile health (mHealth) application users are exposed to application programming ...

Annual security report of 100 top Android and iOS healthcare applications reveals serious cryptographic vulnerabilities, data leakage, and other security breaches—showing the industry needs to do far ...