Sentences with phrase «mobile health researchers»

But harnessing the self - tracking trend to promote healthier behavior is far from a sure bet, as the first generation of mobile health researchers are discovering.

Not exact matches

Telemedicine researchers at the University of Valladolid have proposed a series of recommendations to programmers to improve the security of health applications on mobile devices.

With the aid of several online tools including smart maps built from government transportation data and other online health statistics, and mobile phone apps that collect patient information, scientists and researchers can cull the material for insights about symptoms, dates, times, location of infections, Brownstein said.

The researchers analyzed 37 unique studies of mobile health interventions, looking for statistical evidence of changes in health behavior or disease control in participants 18 years old or younger.

Study participants will agree to allow researchers to track their mobile phone use over the next 20 to 30 years and to access their health records to look for correlations between cell phone use and health effects.

A new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds that mobile phone records can be used to predict the geographical spread and timing of dengue epidemics.