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Munch 5-a-Day

15 June 2011
Munch 5-a-Day is a delicious FREE iPhone app which helps you eat more fruit and vegetables, and maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Munch 5-a-Day helps users build healthy eating habits. Here's how it works: • Record your daily intake of fruits and vegetables, set personal goals, generate graphs to monitor your progress. • Share your progress with friends and family to receive extra encouragement and motivation. • Earn badges for consistently achieving your goals and munching ...

Daily Challenge

15 June 2011
Daily Challenge is for anyone who believes that small, daily actions can help improve well-being. Each day members amass points and collect achievement stamps by completing simple activities that focus on things like eating well, relaxation, goal setting, physical fitness, emotional health, and more! The built-in Well-Being Tracker gives members a daily view of their well-being scores, so they know where they are doing well and where improvements can be made. Signing up is easy; anyone with ...

Communication-Focused Technologies: Health Messages for...

15 June 2011

From the AHRQ summary page: This project, one of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) contracts, developed, implemented, and evaluated a short message service (SMS) intervention. The intervention targeted HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) and who were at least 25-years-old. The aim of the messages was to: improve adherence to medication regimens; improve attendance at appointments; reduce risk-taking behaviors; enhance social support, general health and well-being; and increase involvement of individuals with their health care.

Objectives from the AHRQ summary: The main objectives of the project were to: 

  1. Conduct a thorough review of existing literature, paying close attention to work that has been completed on innovative uses of text messaging in health communication strategies.
  2. Develop and implement an SMS-based intervention to improve health care quality and outcomes by providing tailored health communication messages to HIV-positive patients who are treated in ambulatory care settings.
  3. Conduct a process evaluation on implementation and determine the feasibility and potential for implementing the intervention in other ambulatory care settings.
  4. Conduct an outcome evaluation that focuses on patient satisfaction and the impact of the intervention on targeted knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, intentions and behaviors, health care quality, and outcomes measures.

mFHAST implication: Messaging targeting special (protected class) populations can be done 

Insight Timer

14 June 2011
Insight Timer (formerly Zen Timer) logs your meditations, and provides statistics and journal capability. It allows you to export your data, and also has social features. It's available for Android, iPhone and iPad, and graphed statistics sync across devices.

Fitfu

14 June 2011
FitFu makes fitness simple: -Quick and easy exercises -Progress with friends -Motion-tracker counts reps -Simple reminders
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