Here are some of the top stories in mobile health that we’ve been monitoring in recent days.

• Study Confirms Emerging Telehealth Markets in Asia-Pacific

On Wednesday, Frost & Sullivan indicated in a new report that telehealth opportunities in Asia-Pacific are on the rise.

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Visiongain is out with a new report probing the global mHealth market and its current pace of growth.

The report in question – World Mobile Healthcare (mHealth) Market 2013-2018: eHealth, Telemedicine & Health informatics – outlines what healthcare professionals have begun to identify as key benefits of expanded mHealth adoption.

These benefist include improving healthcare system processes, collecting and retrieving crucial medical data and patients being able to manage chronic conditions better.

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The Etisalat Group announced today that it is teaming with the GSMA to work toward the cause of combating the epidemic of diabetes.

According to a statement released to the press this week, a team of Etisalat’s most determined employees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia will participate in a Pan-European cycle tour this Septmeber.

The GSMA mHealth Grand Tour is designed to help raise awareness of diabetes and showcase mobile health technologies that are being developed.

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Researchers at the University of Nottingham insist that they have created what some are calling a groundbreaking new predictive tool powerful enough to help doctors and healthcare providers identify and treat patients at an elevated risk for suffering a stroke.

The QStroke algorithm has been shown to be better at predicting risk of primary stroke than current methods among those with atrial fibrillation who may need anticoagulants.

Stroke is a major cause of preventable disability and death, the researchers say, noting that strokes affect approximately 150,000 people in the UK every year.

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Baylor College of Medicine researchers believe that mobile sensor technology could prove instrumental in helping recovering drug addicts stay clean.

Last week at the American Telemedicine Association conference, a psychologist at the school explained how he’s using the Zephyr BioHarness wireless vital signals monitor to closely watch and track cardiovascular and respiratory changes in cocaine users.

Developed for the military, first responders and athletes, the BioHarness is a chest strap with a battery-powered sensor that monitors a person’s heart rate, breathing rate and other vital signs.

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HealthIT.gov recently published a new report highlighting how healthcare providers are now using EHRs and Health IT.

According to the interesting data gleaned from the research, healthcare professionals continue to discover how modern tech can be enormously beneficial in improving patient care and wellbeing.

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Mobile health technology is showing promising results in Brazil, where remote monitoring of patients is becoming more commonplace.

Targeting primarily impoverished urban areas where access to health care is limited, mobile health technology is already cutting health care spending.

That’s according to a recent study conducted by the New Cities Foundation. The underlying research looked at the effects of bringing state-of-the-art health care diagnostic tools to sick and elderly residents of a particular slum.

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