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Beacon Community: 4 ways to market mobile health efforts
One in 10 Michigan residents have diabetes--in Detroit that number is more than 16 percent and in some zip codes it's even higher than that. The Southeast Michigan Beacon Community (SEMB), one of
Michigan Beacon uses HIT for high-risk diabetes intervention
The Southeast Michigan Beacon Community is deploying a variety of health IT tools in its effort to improve care for high-risk patients with diabetes in an underserved area, according to an Office of
Text4baby to help CMS promote Medicare, CHIP enrollment
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are looking to the text4baby program to help boost enrollment in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, the U.S. Department of Health
New diabetes texting programs have ambitious goals
After more than a year of testing the concept of using text messaging to change health behavior, a federal/state/local partnership is taking things to the next level. It's a program called
University program examines efficacy of health messages via social media, mobile channels
Social media and healthcare once again are converging, this time at Davie, Fla.-based Nova Southeastern University. The school's College of Pharmacy recently launched its Center for Consumer Health
Text4baby successfully jumpstarts mother-doctor conversations
Free pregnancy messaging program Text4baby is proving to be highly effective, according to the latest research from University of California, San Diego and California State University in San Marcos.
EHRs to help evaluate effectiveness of text4baby
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) intends to use electronic health record data to help evaluate the usefulness of the text4baby
Text messaging helps users quit smoking, study finds
The story is getting a bit clearer about whether text reminders and support can help smokers kick the habit. FierceMobileHealthcare reported a few months ago about two studies that completely
Two ONC Beacon Communities to get mobile help for diabetes prevention, management
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the American Diabetes Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are teaming up to help increase mobile technology use in
'Lollapalooza of m-health' carries inspiring but sober messages
I'm sitting in a packed ballroom with perhaps 2,000 of my closest friends at the Washington Convention Center, scarfing down rubber chicken and awaiting Bill Gates, a featured speaker at the mHealth
