“THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY”
FEB. 2015 - VOL. 1
[M]OBILE [H]EALTH
“THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY”
FEB. 2015 - VOL. 1
[M]OBILE [H]EALTH
THE REVIEWERS: Our position in this “Magazine” Project is to review the overall vision of connecting patients (consumers) with information on Mobile Health.
Nghĩa Lê (Peter)
Farah Samani MAGAZINE GENRE: Creative Informational Analysis of Healthcare IT
By informing and influencing patients (consumers), healthcare advocates, and healthcare professionals, we strive to enhance the understanding of mobile application use. Therefore, improving tomorrow’s health well-being through health information technology and information management.
PURPOSE:
Exploring, Analyzing, and Comparing Various Mobile Applications for Tomorrow’s Healthcare.
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[pg. ] Top 10 Applications for - certain mobile devices - 5+ [pg. ] What’s Hot and Whats Not [pg. ] To Do and Not to Do (improvements) [pg. ] Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Compare [pg. ] Leaders/Health Professionals: Management, Implementation [pg. ] Testimonials, Interview, Opinions, ‌ Thoughts, ideas on impacts... [pg. ] Trailers/Previews for up and coming applications [pg. ] Wish List- what the people want to see [pg. ] Benefits of using Mobile Health
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TRAILERS/ PREVIEWS FOR UP AND COMING APPLICATIONS
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Apple’s
HealthKit, which involves not
only Apple, but Mayo Clinic and Epic.
Rumor has it that Samsung will also be coming out soon with the next version of their Galaxy Smartphone accompanied by a developers’ toolkit for health apps. Google will be launching Google Fit.
Samsung is not sitting still, having re-
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leased increasingly sophisticated versions of their S Health app.
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ANOTHER Break-out year for mHealth. The mHealth market is said to have been $1.95B in 2012, growing to $49B by 2020; the wearables market is predicted to be $12B by Figure -.-, of which 60% will be health tracking. We just coined a new term, the Internet of (Healthy)..
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Although one out of ten U.S. adults over the age of 18 owns an activity tracker, within six months, one-third stops using it. More than 80% of health apps (like Lose It! or MyFitnessPal) that are downloaded are abandoned within two weeks. Also of note, Aetna discontinued CarePass last week, seemingly be13
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cause their members weren’t enthralled by it. Most app development is based on the adage, “Give the people what they want.” Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder, etc., are all designed to meet a basic human need in a very simple way. The challenge in health care is that, though we know what patients/consumers need to do to improve their health, most of them don’t want to hear about it. That makes building ‘sticky’ health apps and devices much tougher than a messaging or photo sharing app.
spiration. They are not equivalent! We check our smartphones 150 times per day. But in a blood pressure monitoring study at the Center for Connected Health, we had difficulty getting patients to push one button once a day to participate in a program their doctor enthusiastically recommended for them. What, then, do we do to take full advantage of the opportunity that Samsung, Apple, Google and others are providing us? The answer, simple and yet elusive, is: Focus on Engagement Technologies come and go, trends take hold and others fade away. We are learning a great deal about how to empower patients to self-manage their health, and what to do with all of this patientgenerated data. The common denominator, the one critical element we must get right, is how to ‘sell’ health to consumers and keep them coming back for more.
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BY: FARAH SAMANI What do people want to see.
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TOP MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATIONS BY: FARAH SAMANI
The use of mobile health applications to promote healthy living is a rising trend from where it was just a few short years ago. Finding the time to care for our physical and mental health is a rare indulgence. The solution to this problem is the convenience of mobile health applications which can assist with improving health on the go. 

It is time to take control of your health and we are here to help. We have reviewed the top mobile health applications that help with things such as tracking the intake of calories, burned calories, bmi, weight loss, and sleep, among other functionalities to encourage and support a healthier lifestyle. Now, your health is literally in the palm of your hands.
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Name: Carrotfit What it is: A fitness cheerleader that tracks weight gain and loss. With the use of harsh criticism, Carrotfit motivates its users into losing weight. The app features work outs, tips, weight tracker, workout reminders, and BMI checks.
Why we like it: The app pushes users with its judgmental yet motivational remarks. Carrotfit will use “threatening, inspiring, ridiculing, and bribing” techniques to get you to where you want. It has a variety of features in one. Getting healthy hasn’t been this entertaining.
Cost: $1.99
Name: Fitocracy What it is: The app features the ability to track your workouts, earn points, beat quests. You can work with trainers to reach your goals or make up your own routine or work with trainers using the free workout routines provided.
Why we like it: This app has its own community to keep you motivated, to provide support, to compete with, and to keep you inspired. Fit pushes its users to take on new challenges and push yourself to the limit.
Cost: Free.
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Name: Fitbit
What it is: An all day activity tracker. This app counts steps, workouts and sleep patterns. It tracks caloric intake using its food log and calories burned during activity. Syncs with myfitnesspal and other Fitbit devices such as Aria, fitbits weigh scale.
Name: Myfitnesspal
What it is: A calorie counter that makes losing weight fast and easy with its diet and fitness tracker. This app has the largest food database with over 5,000,000 foods. It has a recipe uploader for those who cook and even has a built in step tracker.
Why we like it: This app is very versatile and connects with over 50 other apps Why we like it: You can compete with and devices. Its large food database friends to keep your activity levels up. You can set and achieve goals then view makes it fast and easy to track calories. your progress. Other additional features Myfitnesspal also has a barcode scaninclude gps tracking and heart-rate moni- ner, can track food by just scanning its barcode! toring.
Cost: Free. Can purchase bluetooth wireless tracker that syncs with app.
Cost: Free.
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Name: UP by Jawbone
What it is: Similar to Fitbit, UP is an all day activity tracker that guides to a better and healthier you. It is an all in one track that features tracking steps, activity time, and calories burned. It also tracks sleep patterns and food intake.
Why we like it: Up features a “smart coach” that helps guide the user to making simple adjustments in their daily routine. This app motivates users with its users competing against each others activity.
Cost: Free. Will need to purchase the product specific Bluetooth tracker. Or can download its alternate app to use without tracker.
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THE BENEFITS OF APPS IN HEALTHCARE By: Farah Samani Mobile technology has evolved rap-
With busy and demanding lives, it is
idly over the years and having a smart-
easy to forget to care for our selves.
phone has become the norm. Having in-
With the help of mobile health applica-
formation at the tip of your fingers is es-
tions, it makes taking control over our
sential to todays generation. Within the
wellness a little more convenient. The
healthcare field, mobile health apps are
convenience of mobile health apps al-
booming. They are bigger now than they
lows users to become more involved
have ever been. It is changing the way
with their treatment and more engaged
patients and users interact with their
with their care.
health.
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Mobile health apps benefit users a great
Although beneficial, there are some
deal by providing them with access to
lingering concerns to consider regarding
their own personal health information,
mobile health apps that cause some con-
tools and references on improving
sumers to resist adapting to such
health, reminders for appointments or
applications.These apps process large
prescriptions, and nutrition and fitness
amounts of data and are required to
logs, among other things. These apps
maintain security and privacy regula-
also provide a time and cost savings
tions. 

benefits with its ability to assist users
This is where the analytics aspect needs
with there basic needs with quick lookup
to be developed, to protect its users and
references and suggestions from li-
maintain HIPAA requirements.
censed physicians. By utilizing health apps, the user and the users primary physician both save time and money on office visits and healthcare costs.
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For those looking to lose weight and improve their
WHATS HOT? WHATS NOT? BY: FARAH SAMANI
health with a fresh new mobile health app, look no further! There are several areas to explore when looking to improve health and overall wellness of ones self. These categories include: ◦
Sports and fitness activity tracking
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Diet and nutrition
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Weight loss coaching
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Pharmacy
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Sleep cycle analysis
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Stress reduction and relaxation
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Meditation
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Medical advice and patient community
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Menstrual period tracking
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Pregnancy
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Hospital selection and appointment management
More and more new mobile health applications are being introduced into the market each year. To keep on top of whats trending, we have explored a few of the hot mobile health applications within these categories for smartphone users. xxii
• Paul Mckenna: This app assists us• Smokefree - This app helps users
ers with weight loss, sleep, confi-
quit smoking by showing how
dence, phobias. Self proclaimed
much money they’ve saved, how
hypnosist.
much tar and cigarettes they are avoiding, and the steps their bod-
• Medscape by webmd – This app
ies are taking to recover since stop-
features news alerts, drug refer-
ping.
ences, disease and condition references, news articles and more. A
• Glow: Is a woman's health tracker app. Focused on reproductive
one stop shop for all your medical questions.
health. Its newest feature- partnered with Walgreens to “refill by
Whats not
scan” prescriptions. These mobile health apps are a great • Luminosity: a mental health app
substitute for expensive and time-
aimed to improve cognition by exer- consuming personal trainers and nutricising the brain.
tion coaches. With continuous commitment, these apps will enable you to get you what you want, when you want it. But some of these apps aren’t so hot among consumers. Researchers found that mobile health apps with the lowest ratings include those that lack a social support aspect and lack evidenceinformed content.
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“THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS”