Mobile Health Issue

Featured Report: eHealth Initiative: mHealth tools help diabetics manage their disease

Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Sept,21,2012
by: Julie Bird
Telemedicine, mobile health, patient web portals and social medial show "tremendous promise" to help socially disadvantage populations manage Type II diabetes, but health-care providers seem unsure how to fully leverage some of the technologies, according to a new report by the eHealth Initiative (eHI). Funded by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, eHI analyzed more than 100 peer-reviewed articles to glean how eHealth tools are impacting diabetes management.
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This Week's Healthcare News
iHealthBeat
Lawmaker Aims To Create New FDA Office of Mobile Health
Sept,27,2012
This month, Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) plans to introduce a bill that would establish a new FDA Office of Mobile Health, Kaiser Health News reports (Gold, Kaiser Health News, 9/26).
Background
Last year, FDA released a set of proposed guidelines on the regulation of certain mobile medical apps. According to FDA officials, oversight is necessary for apps that pose risks to patients if they do not work as designed (iHealthBeat, 4/17). Read more

Healthcare Info Security
VA to Award Mobile System Contract
Sept,27,2012
by: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
The Department of Veterans Affairs on Sept. 30 will award a contract for its long-awaited mobile device management system to support more than 100,000 devices, including smart phones and tablets. That includes VA-owned devices as well as the personal devices of employees and medical students. The contact for the system, which is essential to ensuring security when using mobile devices to access the VA's clinical information system, is one of several VA IT contracts that will be awarded before the end of the federal fiscal year, says VA CIO Roger Baker.
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MobiHealthNews
mHealth Alliance, UN award 8 grants for maternal, child health
Sept, 27, 2012
by: Neil Versel
Eight companies, programs and non-governmental organizations — including one associated with former President Bill Clinton — have received two-year “catalytic” grants to foster wider use of mobile technologies in the name of improving maternal and child health worldwide. The mHealth Alliance, a global project founded by the United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, joined with the UN’s Innovation Working Group to announce the grants Tuesday. The Innovation Working Group is a panel, co-chaired by the government of Norway and pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, tasked with identifying innovations that support the United Nations Every Woman Every Child effort to improve maternal and children’s health worldwide.
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Wirehead Technology: Healthcare IT Managed Services

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Featured Report: Worker riot in China could impact iPhone 5

RCR Wireless U.S.
Sept,24,2012
by: Martha DeGrasse.
A Foxconn plant that reportedly makes components for the iPhone 5 is idle today after a worker riot that involved two thousand people and sent 40 individuals to the hospital. Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that manufactures iPhones and iPads in China, said the riot started when a “personal dispute between several employees escalated into an incident involving some 2,000 workers.” But several news organizations reporting from China are saying that the catalyst was an assault made on a worker by a security guard.
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This Week's Wireless Industry News
Wireless Week
RIM Stock Jumps on Subscriber Numbers, BB 10 Update
Sept,26,2012
by: Andrew Berg
Shares of Research In Motion were up almost 5 percent immediately following the kickoff of yesterday’s BlackBerry Jam developer conference, where RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said BlackBerry subscribers hit 80 million in its latest quarter, up from 78 million over the previous quarter. Read more

Fierce Mobile Content
Google slashes Android app prices as Play storefront tops 25B downloads
Sept,26,2012
by: Jason Ankeny
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced that consumers have now downloaded more than 25 billion Android applications from its Play storefront, commemorating the milestone by cutting pricing on selected apps and games. Over the next five days, Google will offer Android titles from developers including Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio Entertainment, runtastic and Full Fat at a discounted price of 25 cents. "We'll also be offering some special collections like 25 movies you must own, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and our 25 top selling magazines, all at special prices," adds Google Director of Digital Content Jamie Rosenberg on the Android Official Blog.
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Fierce Developer
Mobile privacy concerns spawn the App Trust Project
Sept, 24, 2012
by: Shane Schick
Morgan Reed started out his recent keynote at the MoDevTablet conference in Arlington, Va., by explaining that, as the executive director for the Association of Competitive Technology, "I work for you." That didn't mean, however, he was going to be anything but blunt about how developers should be thinking about the way they collect and manage customer information. "Privacy is not a checkmark," he told the crowd of smartphone and tablet developers who attended the three-day event. "It's something that has to be very up front and clear about everything you do in your business."
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Toshiba Computers: Small Business Offers

Wirehead Technology Small Business Services
Getting your business up and running in this Hi-Tech world is a daunting task and we know that you don't have the time and resources to get all the things done to keep your business running. That is where we can help Wirehead Technology's Small Business Services can help you with mobility planning,computer systems,telecommunication, mobile marketing and many other IT managed services. We can also help you market your business online to thousands of potential customers. Best of all most of our services are fully turn key that means our services help you run your business from day one and helps keep your business running without you having to become a tech and without the cost hiring an IT staff to keep your business running. Check out our services then contact us and let us help you build your business Today.

Toshiba Direct Small Business Offers
Get $100 off, plus a free webcam, memory and Windows 7 Pro upgrade, on the new customizable Tecra Small Business laptops. Starting at $599. (Total savings of $279) Valid 9/25–10/1.

Get up to $140 off new Toshiba thin & light business laptops. Volume discounts and leasing options available. Starting at $599. Valid 9/25–10/1.

Save up to 30% on select thin & light business laptops from Toshiba, equipped with Windows 7 Pro. Volume discounts and leasing options available. Starting at $369. Valid 9/25–10/1.

Get up to 50% off select Toshiba Laptops and All-in-One desktops, during the Toshiba Below Employee Pricing Sale. Valid 9/25–10/1.

Get an extra $100 off any Satellite Ultrabook, in addition to the $100 instant savings. Starting at $579. Coupon Code: ULTRA100: Valid 9.24.12-9.30.12

Get an extra $20 off any Toshiba prebuilt laptop, in addition to the instant savings. Coupon Code: TOSH20: Valid 9.24.12-9.30.12

Featured Report: Feds, AT&T Want Drivers to Practice Safe Text

Mobile Marketing Watch
Sept,24,2012
by: Michael
Texting may be good for business at AT&T, but it can be hazardous to millions of lives on the open roads. For that reason, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Communications Commission and more than 140 other organizations have teamed with AT&T to tackle the dangerous practice in question: texting while driving. “A text can wait. This message can’t,” said Stephenson. “In the United States, someone is killed or injured once every five minutes on average in a crash that happens while a driver is texting and driving.”
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This Week's Mobile Marketing News
Mobile Marketer
When mobile leads your business instead of lagging behind
Sept,24,2012
by: Marlon Rodrigues
Something crazy happened this year in the mobile industry, which is saying a lot given the number of superlatives. Have you seen a growth curve for anything mobile-related? Behind the scenes of the fight between the smartphone juggernauts, and majority of installed mobile devices being smartphones, they are also starting to change the definition of what our seminal Web traffic figures mean.Read more

MIT Sloan Management Review
Chief Marketing Officers See True Value in Social Media
Sept,20,2012
by: Robert Berkman
How do Chief Marketing Officers value the potential of social data? Apparently, quite highly. That’s the conclusion of a survey of 100 CMOs, conducted this past summer by Bazaarvoice, a producer of social software. Some of the survey’s most interesting statistics and findings:

Making predictions:
Nearly half of CMOs have used social data to make predictions or forecasts.
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Marketing Proofs
Tips for B2B Marketing at the Big Three Social Sites
Sept, 20, 2012
by: Spreadfast
As B2B companies get more comfortable with the big social media outlets, success stories are emerging. "In fact, these social networks have proven indispensable to the marketing strategies of wholesalers and other ... B2B companies," notes Felicia Baratz-Savage in a guest post at Brandwatch. Baratz-Savage offers a quick guide to establishing a vital B2B presence at the Big Three social sites.Here's a breakdown of what's working for B2B marketers at each site, and how to tap in:
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Toshiba Computers: Small Business Offers

Wirehead Technology Small Business Services
Getting your business up and running in this Hi-Tech world is a daunting task and we know that you don't have the time and resources to get all the things done to keep your business running. That is where we can help Wirehead Technology's Small Business Services can help you with mobility planning,computer systems,telecommunication, mobile marketing and many other IT managed services. We can also help you market your business online to thousands of potential customers. Best of all most of our services are fully turn key that means our services help you run your business from day one and helps keep your business running without you having to become a tech and without the cost hiring an IT staff to keep your business running. Check out our services then contact us and let us help you build your business Today.

Toshiba Direct Small Business Offers
Get $100 off, plus a free webcam, memory and Windows 7 Pro upgrade, on the new customizable Tecra Small Business laptops. Starting at $599. (Total savings of $279) Valid 9/25–10/1.

Get up to $140 off new Toshiba thin & light business laptops. Volume discounts and leasing options available. Starting at $599. Valid 9/25–10/1.

Save up to 30% on select thin & light business laptops from Toshiba, equipped with Windows 7 Pro. Volume discounts and leasing options available. Starting at $369. Valid 9/25–10/1.

Get up to 50% off select Toshiba Laptops and All-in-One desktops, during the Toshiba Below Employee Pricing Sale. Valid 9/25–10/1.

Get an extra $100 off any Satellite Ultrabook, in addition to the $100 instant savings. Starting at $579. Coupon Code: ULTRA100: Valid 9.24.12-9.30.12

Get an extra $20 off any Toshiba prebuilt laptop, in addition to the instant savings. Coupon Code: TOSH20: Valid 9.24.12-9.30.12