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Using Your Mobile Phone To Change Behavior Patterns

October 14th, 2011 by Jessie Gruman, Ph.D. in Opinion
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There is excitement in the air about how mobile phones are the breakthrough technology for changing health behavior.  Last Saturday, I was convinced this must be true. In two short hours, I:

• Skimmed the NYTimes op-ed, You Love your iPhone. Literally, that (questionably) claimed that functional MRIs show that our brains react to our iPhones the same way they do to the proximity of someone we love.
• Received an email on my iPhone from NYC Health Business Leaders inviting me to come to a meeting: Is Mobile Health the Next Killer App?
• Came across this podcast on how mobile technology is going to vastly change care for seniors with chronic conditions.
• Read a beautiful review of the behavior change literature that asks the question Is Mobile the Prescription for Sustained Behavior Change?
• Received a text about the highly anticipated release of the iPhone 5.
• And came across Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Prepared Patient Forum: What It Takes Blog*

Using The iPhone To Track Medical Procedures

March 25th, 2010 by DrWes in Better Health Network, News
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If it’s free, it’s for me. Especially if it’s an iPhone application to track medical procedures:

That’s why Dr. Shanti Bansal developed a free iPhone application — “app” in Apple-talk — that lets doctors keep a record of each case and which procedure, from a cardiac MRI to a biopsy, they perform. “The goal is to help physicians in training be the best physicians they can,” said Bansal, who practices at Yale-New Haven Hospital. “One of the reasons I came up with this is that I’m a cardiologist and in cardiology we do a lot of procedures. I lost track of hundreds of procedures during my first and second year” of residency. Now, in about 30 seconds, each procedure can be entered into the iPhone.

Here’s the link to ProcedureTracker.com.

-WesMusings of a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist.

*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Wes*

Should Parents Track Their Child’s Developmental Milestones With An iPhone App?

December 22nd, 2009 by Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, M.D. in Better Health Network, Opinion
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With our world becoming high tech, it’s not surprising that gizmos and programs or our computers, iPhones and Smartphones are emerging to help us track everything from our infant’s cry to our child’s development. But, are these necessary?

I was called by a reporter from Wired.com to weigh in on this with a colleague of mine. As members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council of Communications and Media, and Spokespersons for the AAP, we had a few opinions on this very important topic that I want to share with you that you can find here.

Before you download or buy any computer program or cell phone application just ask yourself one question: Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Dr Gwenn Is In*