While some hospitals tout their smartphone apps, research shows that thousands of healthcare apps go practically unused or downright ignored. Meanwhile, a low-tech feature of cell phones — texting — continues to prove its worth in healthcare. Tuesday, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, an arm of San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare, announced a text-based effort to engage … Continue reading Sharp affiliate addresses readmissions with Agile Health texting

If you or a loved one has diabetes, you understand the challenges of managing the disease on a daily basis. There is a delicate balance between maintaining your diet, exercise and insulin injections to keep blood sugar at normal levels. Constant care and awareness are necessary to avoid complications. Enter the myAgileLife diabetes mobile health … Continue reading Diabetes support is just a text away

Healthcare represents the next frontier for the Internet of Things (IoT). Remote patient monitoring, telehealth and behavioral modification platforms hold the promise of improving chronic disease management and reducing unnecessary costs. In the latest in their series of on the IoT, Goldman Sachs highlights Agile Health among the private and public players in the emerging … Continue reading The Digital Revolution comes to US Healthcare

Mobile health interventions developer Agile Health is moving beyond its roots in smoking cessation by releasing myAgileLife, a text messaging-based program to help people learn behavioral skills to manage type 2 diabetes. myAgileLife, the first product Nashville, Tenn.-based Agile Health has commercialized on a messaging platform acquired last year from the University of Southern California, … Continue reading Agile Health expands into diabetes management

Dramatically improves the world’s most proven text-based smoking cessation program NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Agile Health, a provider of mobile healthcare engagement solutions, today announced a major upgrade to their Kick Buts smoking cessation program. Kick Buts 2.0 is designed to provide an even more open, engaging and supportive experience for users … Continue reading Agile Health Announces Kick Buts 2.0

Some good news about texting: A review of studies published by the Cochrane Collaboration finds that smokers trying to quit the habit are helped in a big way by supportive messages sent via text. We all know it’s really hard to quit smoking. Dr. Pamela Brar, an internist in private practice in La Jolla, Calif., … Continue reading Text Messages Help Smokers Kick The Habit

Support for quitting smoking via text and video messages can help smokers kick the habit, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. The authors of the review found that people were more likely to stay away from cigarettes over a six month period if they received motivational messages and advice to their mobile phones. Text … Continue reading Mobile Phone Services Help Smokers Quit