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For Tempe AZ, Public Health Means Being a 20-Minute City

Healthcare IT Today

The City of Tempe is addressing this challenge though its goal of being a “20-minute city” and is leveraging GIS technology to make data-informed development decisions. Using GIS Technology for Healthier Living In 2012, Kent Larson described the concept of a 20-minute city in a TED Talk.

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Brigham and Women’s Primary Practice Pilots New Mobile App to Drive Patient Engagement & Collaborative Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Twine Health Mobile App Engages Patients with Chronic Conditions The story about the health decline of our citizens is being told everywhere. According to the CDC website, “as of 2012, about half of all adults—117 million people—have one or more chronic health conditions.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. Simultaneously, these biomarkers must be of sufficient direct value to patients to justify their participation in the data-collection effort.