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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AT&T is on the hunt for mHealth Talent.

Beginning today in San Francisco, a two-day hackathon will hopefully provide the carrier with the talent and insight it needs from the autism community.

According to published reports this morning, the “Hacking Autism Hackathon by AT&T and Autism Speaks” will thoroughly pour over some 230 app ideas submitted through Autism Speaks’ Facebook page.

Of those entries, 12 were selected to compete in this weekend’s hackathon in four categories – verbal, non-verbal, school-aged and adult – with $20,000 in prizes set to be awarded.

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According to the findings presented in a new report from Kalorama Information, remote patient monitoring reached new heights in 2012.

“There’s every reason to be sanguine about advanced patient monitoring systems,” writes Bruce Carlson, Publisher of the Kalorama Key Point blog.

With advanced patient monitors that can help patients out of the hospital faster, it should not be surprising that revenue growth goes on.  Revenue follows demand.  The predictions for fast growth of 2011 have been proven true in 2012 sales, according to our research.  Growth was 17% globally.

The US market alone increased from $8.9 billion in 2011 to $10.6 billion in 2012.

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On Friday, Regulus Communications, Inc. announced the launch of the “CareAPP Health Information Network.”

According to details provided in the press release, the network serves as a mobile web portal for patients and consumers to access health information via a mobile device – notebook PC, an iBook, a digital tablet, an iPad, a smart phone, or a digital reader.

CareAPP is the mobile content portal of the Health Information Knowledgebase which provides mobile health information resources to care providers, health professionals, and health product and service suppliers for publishing patient-oriented communications as required by the HITECH Act.

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Physicians and patients have something in common. Both have a voracious appetite for mHealth applications.

According to a new survey spearheaded by EHR vendor eClinicalWorks, 9 in 10 physicians support mobile health apps, particularly the variety tied to electronic health records (EHRs).

The same survey found that 93 percent of physician respondents believe that mobile health apps can improve a patient’s health outcome, and 89 percent are likely to recommend a mobile health app to a patient.

A corresponding infographic shows the emerging popularity of mHealth apps and their hastened adoption by doctors, patients, and a wide variety of healthcare industry professionals.

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As a potentially effective method for helping members of the U.S. Navy deal with post-traumatic stress, a new iPad app is in development from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR).

The Stress Resilience Training System App, co-funded by the Office of Naval Research and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is said to provide Sailors and Marines “with information about stress and resilience and how to apply this knowledge to their missions.”

Without question, the military takes seriously the dangers of PTSD on soldiers. 21 percent of military personnel returning from overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Afghanistan and Iraq suffer from PTSD.

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A recurring theme at the HIMSS 2013 conference and expo this week in New Orleans was the security of mobile health data.

With mobile technologies becoming central to expanded remote patient care and consultation, the challenge of securing patient information is growing by the day.

As a result, PerSysTek is behind a new solution that may rise to this very challenge.

Many of the vendors at HIMSS have great solutions meeting various mobile health (mHealth) needs but Physicians and Patients have been leery of adopting such technologies due to the security risk associated with mobile devices.

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