On Tuesday, the Royal Mental Health Center of Ottawa released a bi-lingual, multi-platform mobile application for veterans, their families and their health practitioners.
Put forward on behalf of the Canadian Operational Stress Injury (OSI) Clinic Network, the formal announcement out of Ottawa indicates that the OSI Connect mobile application will help veterans, military and RCMP recognize and help seek treatment for mental health issues.
The app is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry mobile devices. A mobile optimized website was also launched for veterans, Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP, their families and their family doctors to understand the top mental health issues facing veterans, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and sleep issues.
The OSI Connect application has a series of assessment surveys that allows veterans to privately and discreetly determine the type of referral they may need to discuss with their health care practitioner, and where they might be able to find those clinics in their region.
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Mobile is making sleep a much smarter experience.
Sleep Genius is behind a new iOS app of the same name that was developed by experts in neuroscience, sleep, sound, and music. The inspiration for the app followed years of extensive research helping NASA get astronauts to sleep.
Despite an abundance of sleep-aid apps that litter the App Store, Sleep Genius has already impressively separated itself from the pack.
Unlike the simple sleep apps that only offer users static white noise and other sounds that may actually prevent quality rest in the long run, Sleep Genius uses neurosensory algorithms, multiband binaural beats, pink noise and psychoacoustic music.
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Mobile services designer Mark Curtis says mobile is reshaping health care as we know it.
“In the not-too-distant future,” Curtis asserts in a recent CNN editorial, “you’ll receive a full diagnosis and cure from your smartphone before you have even realized you’re unwell.”
According to Curtis, who serves as chief client officer at design consultancy Fjord, digital is set to embark on a path of “radical transformation” in the health and wellness sector.
As a result, soon – and he means soon – our smartphones will be smarter than we are when it comes to discovering and treating that which ails us.
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This week, MHW is on hand in Las Vegas for the AHIP Institute 2013 conference. And there has been no shortage of notable demonstrations pertinent to the interaction of health and technology so far.
For example, Asthmapolis, the FDA-cleared mobile health solution for asthma and COPD, is showcasing its platform at the conference.
Asthmapolis uses a combination of smartphone applications and snap-on sensors that track when and how often patients use their inhaled medications.
The platform, available in both English and Spanish, is designed to help individuals with their daily preventive medications, reveal insights about their use of rescue medications and provide personalized feedback to improve their ability to successfully manage the disease.
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Canada is proving to be fertile ground for mHealth.
Incredibly, approximately two out of every three Canadians now use smartphones and tablets to access mobile healthcare either for themselves or for their family members.
The findings of international consultancy PwC‘s new study – Making Care Mobile: Shifting perspectives on the virtualization of health care – indicate that mobile health is changing Canadian healthcare in a profound way.
Coverage of the new report from Beacon News, however, highlights why this is not all that surprising when you consider that 80% of those surveyed admit to being very comfortable with mHealth apps.
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Here are some of the top stories in mobile health that we’ve been monitoring in recent days.
With doctors and hospitals finding it increasingly essential to use and depend upon mobile tablets for patient care, it looks like Apple remains the definitive device-maker of choice.
Apple is apparently raising the bar for makers of mobile health apps looking to gain access to the Apple App Store.
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This week the winner of the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge was announced with much fanfare at Health DataPalooza IV.
According to the event’s co-sponsors, the challenge was created to “catalyze the development of mobile applications using an open architecture to help them communicate with one another and function on multiple devices.”
So who was the big winner? Drumroll, please….
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