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Released: 4-Oct-2017 4:20 PM EDT
UWM-Developed App Helps Protect Patients’ Brains During Surgery
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

UW-Milwaukee students and a neuropsychologist jointly built a tablet app that helps brain surgeons identify tissue that would impair patient critical functions if removed.

Released: 2-Oct-2017 11:00 AM EDT
Game Time: To Increase Exercise, Study Shows Gaming Strategies and a Buddy are Key
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

New research shows families who used activity trackers with specially designed gaming elements increased daily step counts by nearly one mile per day and achieved daily fitness goals 27 percent more than families who did not.

Released: 29-Sep-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Researchers Analyze Snapchat Users for Motivation, Interest in Medium
Texas Tech University

The simplicity of the platform and brevity of posts are key factors in determining how students can become addicted.

Released: 27-Sep-2017 8:00 AM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Becomes One of the First Hospitals to Offer Patients a Digital, Interactive App on Apple Watch
Cedars-Sinai

The Cedars-Sinai app is now available on Apple Watch. Its launch makes Cedars-Sinai one of only a few hospital systems to offer a digital, interactive app on the device. The app is a complete resource for managing medical records, connecting with care teams, and exploring all Cedars-Sinai has to offer. Patients and guests can locate the nearest hospital or urgent care facility, as well as get directions and call a location or provider.

Released: 26-Sep-2017 6:05 PM EDT
Teens’ Online Friendships Just as Meaningful as Face-to-Face Ones, UCI Study Finds
University of California, Irvine

Many parents worry about how much time teenagers spend texting, sharing selfies and engaging in other online activities with their friends. However, according to a recent research synthesis from the University of California, Irvine, many of these digital behaviors serve the same purpose and encompass the same core qualities as face-to-face relationships.

 
25-Sep-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Penn Study Shows 80 Percent of Activity Tracker Users Stick with the Devices for at Least Six Months
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Use of activity trackers, such as wearable devices and smartphone apps, is on the rise, and a new study shows that 80 percent of users stuck with the device for at least six months. Though the gadgets may help motivate users to increase exercise, the populations that could benefit most may not be using the technologies. In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher-incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

21-Sep-2017 11:05 AM EDT
Fitbits Could Lead to Negative Impact on Pupils’ Well-Being, Study Finds
University of Birmingham

Pupils in secondary schools are reluctant to see fitness and health tracking devices such as Fitbits introduced into Physical Exercise lessons in schools and the device could potentially cause a negative impact on students’ overall well-being, research led by the University of Birmingham has found.

   
14-Sep-2017 11:05 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic, National Decision Support Company Unveil CareSelect Lab™ to Provide Real-Time Medical Guidance When Ordering Laboratory Tests
Mayo Clinic

Health care providers now have an online tool that can improve patient care and reduce unnecessary health care costs through appropriate ordering of laboratory testing — real-time guidance while they sit with their patients.

Released: 15-Sep-2017 11:05 AM EDT
New Mixed Methods Research App Announced
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Mixed methods research design is an innovative research methodology for health science (including nursing science), social science, and behavioral sciences.

Released: 7-Sep-2017 1:05 PM EDT
An App a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, and Could Reduce Subthreshold PTSD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)

The severity of symptoms can be reduced for individuals with emerging post-traumatic stress disorder through the use of smart phone apps, according to a new study published in the August edition of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking by researchers at the Uniformed Services University (USU).

Released: 6-Sep-2017 11:05 AM EDT
DHS S&T Awards $8.6 Million for Five Mobile Application Security R&D Projects
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T has awarded funding to five research and development (R&D) projects that will enhance the secure use of mobile applications (apps) for the federal government.

Released: 6-Sep-2017 9:05 AM EDT
PupilScreen aims to allow parents, coaches, medics to detect concussion, brain injuries with a smartphone
University of Washington

University of Washington researchers are developing a smartphone app that is capable of objectively detecting concussion and other traumatic brain injuries in the field, which could provide a new level of screening for athletes or accident victims.

Released: 28-Aug-2017 2:00 PM EDT
New App Uses Smartphone Selfies to Screen for Pancreatic Cancer
University of Washington

A new app from University of Washington researchers could lead to earlier detection of pancreatic cancer -- simply by snapping a smartphone selfie. The disease kills 90 percent of patients within five years, in part because no telltale symptoms or non-invasive screening tools exist to catch a tumor before it spreads.

Released: 28-Aug-2017 9:00 AM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Graduate Program Launches Master’s Degree in Health Delivery Science to Better Harness, Analyze Health Information
Cedars-Sinai

Doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals are heading back to school at Cedars-Sinai, joining the first class of a new, accredited master’s degree program in health delivery science, offering an advanced curriculum focused on measuring and improving the value of healthcare.

10-Aug-2017 10:05 AM EDT
Smartphone Tracking Shows Fear Affects Where Youth Spend Time
Ohio State University

Youth spend less time in their neighborhoods if area residents have a high fear of crime, according to a new study that used smartphones to track kids’ whereabouts. Adolescents spent over an hour less each day on average in their neighborhoods if residents there were very fearful.

Released: 4-Aug-2017 10:05 AM EDT
See a Bear? New iSeeMammals App Lets Citizen Scientists Track Expanding Populations
Cornell University

Black bear populations are on the rise in New York state, and Cornell University researchers are combining digital technology with on-the-ground conservation efforts to better manage the growing numbers of the animals in the state.

Released: 31-Jul-2017 8:05 AM EDT
Livestreaming Today: Star Trek Tricorder XPrize Winning Device Presentation
Newswise

Press can register here to livestream this special session through Newswise Live on Monday, July 31 at 7:30 PM EDT

Released: 24-Jul-2017 1:05 PM EDT
App Concept Tackles Medication Reminders for Children with Chronic Diseases
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Using a game-based format, the conceptual app engages both children and caregivers to ensure compliance with medication regimens.

Released: 13-Jul-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Predicting Heart Events After Liver Transplant
Northwestern University

The first app and score to determine the one-year risk of a liver transplant patient dying or being hospitalized for a heart attack or other cardiovascular complication has been developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists.

11-Jul-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Predicting Heart Events After Liver Transplant
Northwestern University

The first app and score to determine the one-year risk of a liver transplant patient dying or being hospitalized for a heart attack or other cardiovascular complication has been developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists.

Released: 11-Jul-2017 5:05 PM EDT
Lip-Syncing Obama: New Tools Turn Audio Clips Into Realistic Video
University of Washington

Machine learning algorithms developed by UW computer vision researchers can create realistic videos from audio files alone - including speeches by President Barack Obama.

Released: 28-Jun-2017 8:05 PM EDT
One Decade Into iPhone Launch: Has the Mobile Technology Explosion Helped or Hurt?
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

The impact of excessive smartphone use isn't permanent; used in bed, they may disrupt circadian clocks; researchers explore apps to improve ADHD treatment

21-Jun-2017 8:05 AM EDT
Innovative Smartphone Technology Can Let You Know When You’re Drinking Too Much
Research Society on Alcoholism

Some individuals struggle to make healthy decisions about their drinking in risky situations. Technology can help. Researchers are finding ways by which digital interventions can help people make smarter drinking decisions, leading to reduced alcohol-related injuries and illness. These findings will be shared at the 40th annual scientific meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) in Denver June 24-28.

   
19-Jun-2017 9:05 PM EDT
Physical Activity + Fitbit Help Women During Early Alcohol Recovery
Research Society on Alcoholism

The first three months of sobriety pose the greatest risk for relapse, and the greatest challenge for intervention efforts. Results from a pilot study suggest that a lifestyle physical activity intervention supported by a Fitbit device can successfully supplement existing alcohol treatment among depressed women during early recovery. These results will be shared at the 40th annual scientific meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) in Denver June 24-28.

   
Released: 23-Jun-2017 11:05 AM EDT
Technology Addiction More Likely a Factor for Teen Drivers Texting and Talking with Friends Than with Parents
University of Alabama at Birmingham

A new study shows that teens communicating on mobile phones with friends show stronger signs of technology addiction than when communicating with parents.

Released: 22-Jun-2017 9:00 AM EDT
What Goes On in Class WhatsApp Groups
University of Haifa

Class WhatsApp groups provide young people with space where they feel able to develop closer and more open relationships that allow them to express themselves in ways they couldn’t in the non-virtual domain. This is the finding of a new study at the University.

Released: 20-Jun-2017 10:05 PM EDT
Study Finds Most People Aren't as Happy as Their Friends on Social Media
Indiana University

A study led by computer scientists at Indiana University has found that people with the most connections on social media are also happier. This may cause most social media users to not only regard themselves as less popular than their friends but also less happy.

Released: 14-Jun-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Free App Helps Providers Treat Patients Grieving Pregnancy Loss, Newborn Death
University of Louisville

A group of University of Louisville researchers and engineers has developed a free mobile app designed to help health care providers easily assess and identify women in need of mental health care for intense grief after a pregnancy loss or newborn death.

Released: 13-Jun-2017 1:05 PM EDT
People Who Are “Phone Snubbed” by Others Often Turn to Their Own Phones, Social Media for Acceptance, Baylor Study Finds
Baylor University

People who are phone snubbed – or “phubbed” – by others are, themselves, often turning to their smartphones and social media to find acceptance, according to new research from Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business.

   
Released: 12-Jun-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Breast Milk “Bartending”: There’s an App for That
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Nurses in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) spend close to 13,000 hours every year managing breast milk for the nearly 500,000 babies across the United States that require special and often critical care in the first months of their lives. That’s 13,000 hours (the annual equivalent of six full-time nurses) spent on just what these nurses call “bartending” – not feeding, just monitoring, labeling, printing, and logging infant-specific nutritional management. Enter Keriton, a new breast milk management system designed for nurses and new moms, by nurses and new moms, that the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) began testing last month. Unlike other apps that are available to only moms or to only nurses, Keriton is the first integrated system that operates on a HIPAA-compliant and secure server, allowing for “process automation” – meaning, moms use the app to log and track how much and when they are pumping, and the information is automatically syn

Released: 5-Jun-2017 12:05 PM EDT
App Uses Smartphone Compass to Stop Voice Hacking
University at Buffalo

A University at Buffalo-led team of engineers is creating an app to stop voice hacking. The app uses existing smartphone components, including the magnetometer for the phone’s compass, to detect when someone's voice is being broadcast on a speaker.

Released: 5-Jun-2017 10:00 AM EDT
NUS Researchers Pilot ‘Home-but-Not Alone’ App to Help New Parents Make a Smoother Transition
National University of Singapore (NUS)

research team led by Assistant Professor Shefaly Shorey from the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine has developed a novel mobile application to deliver postnatal educational programmes and to provide the much needed postnatal supportive care on the go.

Released: 1-Jun-2017 5:05 PM EDT
NewYork-Presbyterian and Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute Launch #HandsOnlyCPR Campaign
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

In an effort to reduce the number of people who die needlessly from sudden cardiac arrest each year, NewYork-Presbyterian and the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute have launched the #HandsOnlyCPR campaign, an ambitious community awareness, education and activation effort with a simple, but powerful message: Everyone Can Save a Life.

Released: 16-May-2017 12:55 PM EDT
App That Tracks Bipolar Manic, Depressive Episodes Wins Award
University of Illinois Chicago

A team led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Sage Bionetworks, has won the Mood Challenge for ResearchKit, a contest that called on researchers to come up with new ways to study mood disorders using Apple’s ResearchKit, an open-source platform for creating iOS apps.

Released: 16-May-2017 11:05 AM EDT
Composition Expert: “Video Games Can Make You a Better Writer”
NYIT

Can playing video games make you a better writer?

Released: 16-May-2017 9:10 AM EDT
Unlocking the Mystery of Multiple Sclerosis with Tech
Keck Medicine of USC

Recruitment begins for a Keck School of Medicine of USC study of the first smartphone app to combine clinical data, MRI imaging and genetic data for people with multiple sclerosis

11-May-2017 10:00 AM EDT
Personal Mobility Phone App Suite Can Help Inform Physician Diagnoses
University of Alabama Huntsville

A new suite of phone apps developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) uses Android smart phones to monitor the physical mobility and stability of older people.

Released: 8-May-2017 8:05 AM EDT
You Cannot Control the Weather, but UF-Developed Tools Help You Cope
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

“There is interest in this topic as we try to improve our decision-making tools,” said Kati Migliaccio, a UF/IFAS professor of agricultural and biological engineering and co-author of a new Extension document. “Rainfall is one of the most variable factors used in our tools -- thus determining better information or combining information may help us provide better tools.”

Released: 3-May-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Northwestern to Showcase Learning Apps at TEACHx Conference
Northwestern University

TEACHx, a day to spotlight technological innovations in teaching and learning and to inspire new connections between leaders in the field at Northwestern University and beyond, returns to the Evanston campus this month.

Released: 2-May-2017 1:50 PM EDT
Period Tracking Apps Failing Users in Basic Ways, Study Finds
University of Washington

A new University of Washington study finds that smartphone apps to track menstrual cycles often disappoint users with a lack of accuracy, assumptions about sexual identity or partners, and an emphasis on pink and flowery form over function and customization.

27-Apr-2017 3:00 AM EDT
Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone?
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office

“If you are obsessed with Instagram, you might get an influx of anxiety chemicals that your body strives to reduce by logging into Instagram. We see this type of obsession with smartphones and social media, and it is rampant.” – Dr. Larry Rosen, CSU Dominguez Hills

Released: 27-Apr-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Crime and Virtual Punishment
University of Utah

University of Utah students have created a new mobile game that demonstrates how software algorithms used by many of the nation’s judicial courts to evaluate defendants could be biased like humans. Justice.exe is a free app in which the software’s algorithm tries to predict how the player would punish criminals.

24-Apr-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Diabetes App Forecasts Blood Sugar Levels
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Glucoracle is a new app for people with type 2 diabetes that uses a personalized algorithm to predict the impact of particular foods on blood sugar levels.

Released: 27-Apr-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Popular iPhone App to Study Postpartum Depression Expands to New Countries, Modules and Android Version
University of North Carolina Health Care System

The UNC School of Medicine today launched the Android version of PPD ACTTM, a mobile app-based study helping to further the understanding of why some women suffer from Postpartum Depression (PPD) and others do not – critical knowledge for researchers working to find more effective treatments.

   
Released: 24-Apr-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Mayo Clinic Health Information Offered Through Epic Patient Apps
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is offering its trusted, expert health information on demand through Epic patient apps. Mayo Clinic is offering this embedded content option to Epic’s health care clients as a way to help other providers share expert health information with their patients. More than 4,000 comprehensive health topics spread across more than 18,000 pages of Mayo Clinic content are available, including symptom, condition, disease, life stage, and healthy living information.

16-Apr-2017 12:00 AM EDT
Think Brain Games Make You Smarter?Think Again, FSU Researchers Say
Florida State University

A new study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience finds the so-called brain games of the growing billion-dollar brain-training industry do little to improve or protect cognitive performance.



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