On Thursday at the 2nd annual Digital Health Summer Summit, WellDoc heralded the launch of BlueStar.

The healthcare behavioral science and technology company says BlueStar is a new product in a novel class of diabetes therapy. According to details made public during last night’s announcement, BlueStar will be reimbursed and adjudicated as a pharmacy benefit similar to other prescription products.

In short, BlueStar supports patients through smart blood glucose testing, healthy diet and exercise choices, medication adherence, and quality standards of care such as A1c tests, foot exams, and blood pressure and lipid levels.

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Transparency Market Research has published a new market report titled “mHealth Market- Global Industry Analysis, Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 – 2018.”

The projections call for the global mHealth market to reach 10.2 billion by 2018, a nearly 10-fold increase from the market’s size as of 2012.

Fueling this growth will be the monitoring services segment, which retains a commanding position after having contributed about 63% of the global mHealth market revenue in 2012.

However, the most important development witnessed in the mHealth market is the penetration of smartphones across the world, TMR asserts. It is estimated that smartphones will account for almost half the global sales of mobile handsets by 2015 due to their rapidly falling prices.

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Lilly Oncology confirmed a new partnership Friday with MDLinx in hopes of making new cancer-related research more easily accessible to oncologists.

This effort marks the latest endeavor by Eli Lilly and Company to cultivate searchable mobile applications for healthcare industry professionals. According to this morning’s announcement, the new app in question allows users to access the oncology information that is most important to them regardless of location.

The journal aggregator app, called MDLinx Oncology Articles, is available now for Android and iOS devices.

 Physician editors at MDLinx rank, sort and summarize oncology articles from more than 150 oncology journals, allowing oncologists to not only choose what journals they want to follow and filter by sub-specialty, but also search articles by key term or tumor type. The content is selected and controlled exclusively by the MDLinx Editorial Team at M3.

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The California Poison Control System (CPCS) is the largest single provider of poison control services in the United States. As a result, it’s no surprise that the organization is consistently relying on mobile solutions to better inform and protect the masses when it comes to a wide variety of potentially serious if not life-threatening dangers.

On Wednesday, the CPCS launched what is being called a “groundbreaking” bilingual digital health project that puts teaching tools onto the mobile devices of farm workers and other community health professionals.

The Pesticide Safety Project provides safety information primarily through narrative videos and encourages reporting of pesticide exposures for farm workers and others who may be exposed at work or in the home.

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Freshly published data and corresponding projections from MarketsandMarkets indicates that the global healthcare IT market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7.0% to reach $56.7 billion by 2017 from $40.4 billion in 2012.

Factors ranging from a spike in incidents of chronic disorders, to the pressure to reduce healthcare costs are responsible for driving this anticipated growth, the report indicates.

North America (U.S. and Canada) commanded the highest share of the healthcare information technology market due to firm government support in terms of investment and incentives, growing demand of integrated healthcare IT system to achieve high return on investment, enhanced patient consumerism for quality care and safety, and rise in aging population.

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On Friday, Mayo Clinic and drchrono announced a joint agreement to provide patient-specific educational resources to physicians connected to the drchrono EHR platform.

drchrono, the first EHR to work with Mayo Clinic, said today that it has created a way to take the prominent clinic’s digitized patient education material and allow doctors to pass this along to patients “in an extremely efficient paperless way.”

As a result, doctors can now share educational material in a simple and digitally curated way with their patients.

“Sharing patient education material at a doctor’s office with paper is an archaic and inefficient practice,” asserts the EHR platform provider.

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In an effort to curtail the long list of Americans hospitalized or seriously harmed every year as a result of dangerous drug interactions, American Diversified Holdings Corporation is developing “Drug Check,” which will be an mHealth application capable of identifying and eliminating potentially serious drug interactions.

According to the latest industry data, a large portion of calls received at pharmacies every year are placed because of patient inquiries regarding possible drug interactions. The new app from ADHC could answer many such questions reliably and quickly.

Recent reports from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have indicated a 300% increase in serious injuries and deaths associated with Drug complications. Death have risen from 5,500 to over 15,000 over a recent 7 year period and almost 500,000 serious prescription drug complications were reported.

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