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Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Withings Blood Pressure Monitor has been awarded the iF Product Design Award
We are very proud to announce that the Withings Blood Pressure Monitor have been chosen by the International Forum Design to receive the iF product design award 2012. The iF product design award was introduced in 1954 and rewards products that distinguish themselves by their design, their ergonomics, their functionality, and their degree of innovation.
Connected health monthly mash-up #2
Posted October 26, 2011
Categories: Health 2.0, Mashup, Mobile Health, Self-tracking, Smart technology, Trivia
Apple’s top 50 iPad apps for doctors
Apple has created an “iTunes healthcare room”, with their selection of the 50 best medical iPad apps. Apparently, this iTunes room can be difficult to find, which is why Mobihealthnews has divided them into categories and made a slideshow. Among these categories you’ll find: Reference, Education, EMR & patient monitoring, Imaging, Point of care, and Personal care. Some of these apps have previously been mentioned here on the blog, such as: DrChrono, Medscape, and WebMD, but this article gives you a more comprehensive overview of what’s available according to your specific needs. Read more
Tagged connected health, future of healthcare, health 2.0, iPad, mhealth, self-tracking
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With Withings and Panasonic, you now have a chance to be on TV!
With the Withings app, you can follow your data on your computer, on your iPhone and on Android platforms. That’s pretty much anywhere right? Actually there is one more screen where we thought it would be cool to see your graphs: your TV screen!
Health gaming
We are all always full of good intentions for our health and keep making promises to ourselves like “next week I’ll start jogging” or “in a few days, I’ll start a diet”, but we often lack the motivation to keep these promises.
Turning all these good intentions into action can be accomplished through gaming. In fact, gaming can encourage people to make healthy decisions and reinforce positive behaviour, as it increases motivation and helps people better understand their health. Read more
Coming soon: the first live demonstration of the Smart Baby Monitor
After San Francisco in September, Withings is heading for Berlin for the European version of Health 2.0 on October 27 and 28, where we will continue to promote our vision for improving health and well-being with connected devices. During this event, Withings CEO Cedric Hutchings will take the stage to make the first public live demonstration of the Smart Baby Monitor and display the capabilities of the devices and the functionalities of the application.
How SMS consultation can be a great tool for health care
Smartphones and healthcare applications are much-discussed subjects here on the blog. However, even regular cell phones can be very useful instruments for health care. The increased availability of mobile phones all over the world connects people like never before, and has drastically augmented the use of SMS: it is estimated that 8 trillion text messages will be sent in 2011. Read more
