Given that it’s Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, with cervical cancer claiming its spot as the most common of these cancers, I began to wonder what the app world is doing for awareness and prevention. Better and more sophisticated applications for diabetes monitoring seem to appear fast and furious these days, with new and more innovative […]
As I’m sure you may have noticed by the sheer number of posts I put out a week, I don’t run short of ideas. Between my own general interests, and breaking news from the alphabet soup of the FDA, AMA, APA, CDC, WHO–and the other APA–I get pretty far. And that doesn’t count the inevitable, “you […]
I love comments. Just when you start to think you’re exercising your mind, your researching capacity, and your typing abilities for nought, someone doesn’t just read your post–they care enough to actually share a response with you. It’s so gratifying. And sometimes the responses are really illuminating. For example, earlier I put out a […]
Twitter has its fingers on the pulse of the nation, on the ‘what’s-hot-what’s-not’ ongoings in the world of the web. So, using visual.ly’s software, I checked out how frequently the hashtag ‘#mentalillness’ occurred on Twitter in the past month. create infographics with visual.ly The numbers seemed low to me–alarmingly low, given the depth and breadth […]
“I don’t see why anybody wants ‘em!. . ./They are just impossible to control!?What’s the matter with. . . .mobile health apps??. . . today?” When it isn’t Dick Van Dyke lamenting the state of kids in “Bye Bye Birdie,” it seems it’s a group of nay-sayers about the status of mobile health apps. With […]
Managing medications is a difficult endeavor. I’ve come up with this brilliant little solution: When I wake up and take my morning meds, I then throw them, so I’ll know I’ve taken them. I throw the ones I won’t need again into my pill basket (or I try to, I’ll never make it as a quarterback), and […]
When I came across apps for what people were calling ‘Internet addiction,’ I thought I had slid down the rabbit hole. Treating addiction to computer technology with computer technology? It sounded–let’s just say ‘off.’ But we must know the mantra by now: There’s always an app for that–even too much app. Now, the Internet addiction these apps treat isn’t […]
Check out the “MHealth in Mobile Apps” Weekly, with the week’s round-up on what’s new and upcoming in the world of mobile health apps. This week’s topics range from an instant anatomy heart lectures app available on the Android to an interview with the VP of Weight Watchers about self-tracking for all to a new […]
A quick but relevant addition to the posts on online support for medical conditions, if I may (see, for example, today’s “Getting Support for Bipolar Disorder Online,” or last month’s “Twitter and Mental Health: Getting the Most Out of Your Tweeting Experience” for some mental health examples). Patientslikeme is a support and informational site inclusive of 154,826 […]
If you’ve been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder (BD), and you feel alone, or isolated, or desirous of more information about the illness, or you just want to connect to others who share your situation, you need walk no further than to your computer chair. Between online support groups, blogs, Twitter, you can get information and […]
Traditionally, senior citizens have lagged behind their younger counterparts in adapting to new technology. This has been true, of course, when it comes to mHealth, as well; an unfortunate truth, since the elderly have much to gain, in independence, decreased hospital admissions, and a sense of control over the health declines that can accompany aging. […]
In 2011, nearly 80 million Baby Boomers turned 65, earning themselves the official title of ‘senior citizens.’ I’m not a huge fan of this title, myself, but there’s a lot to go with aging that has real positives, so I’ve turned the other cheek. Additionally, the image of the doddering elderly person, cut off from […]
September 3, 2012 by rfinkel
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