Are you a medical professional that manages drug-based opioid treatment for your patients? Now there's an app for you! The government jumps into the app development space through The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), launching a new app to help medical professionals manage patient care. MATx is a mobile app that provides prescription [...]
When we think about monitoring something or someone, often times the idea of "big brother" comes to mind. It assumes that if the technology exists then it will be used by someone more power than ourselves to possible nefarious ends. We already know that with technologies like facebook, we trade the ability to stay connected [...]
Many of us have used an app to track our steps, or to track our diet. But the new frontier in mobile health is mobile mental health. Just like health apps, users can track their mental health and do activities to improve it over time. HealtheDesigns has been working with the Veteran's Administration to make [...]
Cynthia Phelps CEO of HEALTHeDesigns was featured in a Rendon Retrato in the The Rivard Report for her work at Geekdom. Thanks goes to Al Rendon and Gary Whitford! Gary Whitford "Extraordinary Words - We are copywriters and poets, producers and bon vivants. We write words and write about words and we enjoy an association [...]
It's no surprise that mobile health is changing the landscape of healthcare. However, It is surprising how quickly it's happening. For investors in the health technology arena, it is requiring them to rapidly respond to demand that is coming through a grassroots type of push to adopt mobile health. Large health institutions, such as hospitals, [...]
Studies predict a shortage of qualified mental health professionals in the future. The financial rewards of being a mental health professional are dropping drastically due to how the insurance companies are reimbursing for services. As the baby-boomers retire out of their positions and fewer young people are entering the field, we are soon headed towards [...]
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