The global mobile health market is expected to grow at a rate of 49.7% over the next six years, with revenue expected to reach more than $49 billion in 2020, up from $1.2 billion in 2012, according to a report conducted by Grand View Research, Healthcare IT News reports (McCann, Healthcare IT News, 3/4).
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The report found that in 2012:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued final guidance for developers of mobile medical applications, or apps, which are software programs that run on mobile communication devices and perform the same functions as traditional medical devices. The guidance outlines the FDA’s tailored approach to mobile apps.
Alere™ Connect has been granted a 510(k) market clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the Alere™ MobileLink. The new product offering is one of Alere's connected device technologies designed to empower patients by allowing self-testing at home and delivering data quickly and seamlessly to clinical systems accessed by their healthcare providers.
Teratech Corporation today announced the launch of the new uSmart 3200T Ultrasound System, the first in Terason's uSmart family of proprietary products. This revolutionary new tablet, deemed "disruptive technology" by industry leaders, will change the way healthcare is delivered in both hospital and outpatient sectors of point-of-care ultrasound.
The AliveCor Heart Monitor gives you instant, portable screening opportunities. Utilize the device anytime, anywhere to evaluate heart rate and rhythm. The AliveCor Heart Monitor is cleared by the FDA for sale in the U.S. to licensed medical professionals and prescribed patients to record, display, store,
and transfer single-channel electrocardiogram (ECG) rhythms.
For more info check out their site: http://www.alivecor.com/en
Usability Starts with "You" If you are looking for EHR usability resources including usability testing and user experience professionals to help you with the EHR safety-enhanced Design evaluation required for the ONC HealthIT certification (Including the 3/11/24 update to B11) you have come to the right place!
Usability - The effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which specified users achieve specified goals in particular environments (ISO 9241-11).
Applications are now open for ZeroTo510, an entrepreneurship accelerator program designed to help start-ups bring medical device products and services to market. Applications will be accepted until March 25, 2013.
“Last year, ZeroTo510 was launched as the first-ever program of its kind in the United States focused on medical devices”
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