Drug Companies Are Testing Health Technology
Forbes
May 15, 2012
“Drug companies are dipping into health technology—or at least skimming the surface… Check out these natural partners to pharma: Happtique, mentioned by Dave Chase. It plans to launch a mobile app that enables doctors to suggest health apps to their patients [...]”
Mobile apps could rival pharma’s crown jewels
FierceBiotechIT
May 15, 2012
“As we pack more data about our health into mobile devices, pharma companies could face a new competitive threat to their drugs: Mobile health apps…The threat looms closer than one might think. Happtique, a mobile health outfit, has launched a trial to test the use of its pioneering “mRx” program that enables physicians to pick health apps for patients with a range of chronic conditions [...]”
Prescribable Mobile Apps Huge Threat for Pharma
Forbes
May 14, 2012
“With the proliferation of mHealth apps, it was only a matter of time before healthcare providers would start prescribing apps as soon as apps proved to be as or more effective than prescription drugs. Happtique, a mobile health application store and app management solution startup will launch a trial of mRx™, the first program to enable physicians to prescribe mHealth apps to patients…pharma faces a grim future if they don’t take action. A program such as Happtique’s can be either a huge opportunity or a huge threat depending on how they handle it [...]”
Doctors prescribe apps to patients
SmartPlanet
May 13, 2012
“A common complaint among healthcare providers is that patients don’t follow orders: they forget to take their medicine or aren’t ready to give up a particular bad habit. And these issues can get in the way of health and drive up healthcare costs. So Happtique, a mobile health application store, created mRx™, a program that allows physician to, in a sense, prescribe apps to their patients… Here’s how it works: A prescriber chooses an app or apps to be prescribed to a patient and the mRx™ sends the patient a secure email message with a link to download the app. [...]”
Happtique bets docs will prescribe apps if taught how
FierceMobileHealthcare
May 11, 2012
“Mobile health applications distributor Happtique, which earlier this year announced that it was starting an app vetting process, now is taking on an even bigger mHealth challenge–getting doctors to actually prescribe apps to their patients. The company is testing a mobile platform, mRx, that allows physicians to “prescribe,” health apps to their patients [...]”
Trial program lets docs ‘prescribe’ mHealth apps to patients
Healthcare IT News
May 11, 2012
“Happtique, a mobile health app store aimed at healthcare professionals, will launch a trial of mRx, which it touts as the first program to enable physicians to prescribe mHealth apps to patients. [...]”
Happtique mRx Trial Prompts Doctors to Prescribe Mobile Apps to Patients
eWeek
May 10, 2012
“Now you may leave the doctor’s office with not only a prescription for medication but an Rx for a mobile application to help take better care of yourself. Happtique, a company that operates a mobile app store for health care, has announced mRx, a trial that will test whether the company’s mobile app will encourage doctors to prescribe mobile software for patient use. [...]”
Happtique to test its health app prescription platform
MobiHealthNews
May 10, 2012
“While some physicians may already be prescribing apps to patients, Happtique CEO Ben Chodor said many want help to make it easier for their patients to get the apps they recommend onto their devices. The mRx platform is an app on the physician’s phone that enables them to push an app recommendation to a patient’s phone. Part of the mRx platform is a reimbursement mechanism. Chodor said Happtique wants to do for mobile app prescribing what SureScripts and others did for e-prescribing. [...]”
Happtique Announces First Mobile App Prescribing Program for Healthcare
FierceHealthcare
May 10, 2012
“Happtique, Inc., a mobile health application store and app management solution for providers, physicians, and the patients they serve, will launch a trial of mRx™, the first program to enable physicians to prescribe mHealth apps to patients. [...]”
Happtique Announces First Mobile App Prescribing Program for Healthcare
Yahoo! Finance
May 10, 2012
“Grounded in the belief that increased physician-to-patient services will improve compliance and health outcomes, Happtique’s patent-pending technology will enable doctors across all specialties to prescribe apps to patients. [...]”
mHealth Innovators: Q&A With Happtique CEO Ben Chodor
Power Your Practice
April 3, 2012
“We interviewed Happtique CEO Ben Chodor about what services the company offers to healthcare providers, how it plans to execute an app certification program, and what mHealth innovations are poised to make the biggest impact on healthcare as a whole [...]”
IBM’s Reinvention Should Inspire Flat Pharma Businesses
Forbes
March 25, 2012
“Rx for apps: Before long, rather than being prescribed a pill, people will be prescribed apps that have established an evidence-base that proves they are effective. Vendors such as Happtique will provide what amounts to an “app formulary” for providers. Not only enabling the prescription of an app but the accompanying app adherence could be a valuable service [...]”
More on Happtique’s health app certification process
MobiHealthNews
March 8, 2012
“This week Happtique’s certification process team published a letter to the mobile health industry that explained its initial thoughts on the project ahead. Here’s how the team has conceived its initial set of issues for the review process [...]”
Five Events Signaling the Arrival of mHealth
The Digital Health Corner
February 20, 2012
“5. The undertaking of a medical app certification program by Happtique. While the details of the review process were not delineated in the announcement of this project, it aims to address fundamental questions: which apps might be most clinically useful, effective, and therefore worthwhile to buy from a provider standpoint [...]”
12 trends for mobile health in 2012
MobiHealthNews
February 14, 2012
“5.) Certification of Health and Medical Apps. We need more groups willing to take on this task. It’s a huge opportunity and one that is unique to health apps in my opinion. Happtique, a subsidiary of the for-profit arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA Ventures), is the first organization to take it on [...]”
Crain’s New York Business
January 22, 2012
“Nevertheless, wired docs are pushing for more, and hospitals are scrambling to bolster their systems and networks to secure and facilitate increased mobile traffic. To help them get with the trend, the Greater New York Hospital Association last year launched Happtique, a health care app store for hospitals [...]”
Happtique Launches Certification Program for Mobile Health Apps
eWEEK
January 19, 2012
“Happtique, an online mobile health application marketplace, has announced it will develop a certification program to vet thousands of mobile applications that doctors, nurses and patients use. The company hosts a multiplatform application store for hospitals, continuing care facilities and doctors’ practices using an indexing method called hApp. The company is a unit of GNYHA Ventures, the business arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association. Happtique sees the new certification program as a “Good Housekeeping” seal of mobile health applications, CEO Ben Chodor told eWEEK […]”
Happtique Names Ben Chodor New CEO
MarketWatch
January 18, 2012
“Happtique, Inc., the first total mobile solution for healthcare, has named Ben Chodor as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will lead Happtique’s mission to give healthcare enterprises–like hospitals, continuing care facilities, and physician practices–secure, individually branded, multi-platform application stores that support employee and patient mobile technology use [...]”
Happtique Plans Mobile Health App Certification Program
InformationWeek
January 18, 2012
“Mobile health applications are about to come under increasing scrutiny from Happtique, Inc., which recently announced that it has established a multi-disciplinary blue-ribbon panel to guide the development of a certification program that will evaluate and certify apps for professionals and patients.
The certification program will specify quality and performance standards that will guide hospitals, physicians, patients, and other health stakeholders on a health app’s clinical appropriateness and technical functionality […]”
Happtique jumps from selling apps to vetting them
FierceMobileHealthcare
January 17, 2012
“Finally! That was my first thought when app store Happtique announced last week that it planned not only to sell health apps, but also to certify their efficacy….FierceMobileHealthcare talked with three of the four individuals who have been enlisted to create the certification program for Happtique–Howard Luks, an orthopedic surgeon and professor at New York Medical College; Shuva Roy, the biomedical microdevices director for University of California, San Francisco; and Dave deBronkart, a health blogger and the consumer-facing specialist of the group–who indicated that they’re scheduled to hold their first meeting in two to three weeks to sketch out the initial shape of the program, which is due to Happtique by July [...]”
Mobile technology is transforming the health industry, but to what extent?
TechCrunch
January 16, 2012
“Many entrepreneurs and startups are seeing the opportunity in healthtech and want to get in on the game… Take Happtique, an interesting startup we covered a few months ago, which brings mobile app stores to healthcare professionals. In other words, Happtique offers hospitals, physician practices and more, the ability to create individually branded, secure, multi-platform app stores that support employees and doctor use (for use internally in practices), as well as supporting consumer, or patient use outside the confines of the hospital [...]”
Mobile health apps certification program in New York in the works
MedCity
January 12, 2012
“A New York-based store focused on mobile health apps for healthcare professionals and patients is developing a certification program. Happtique’s program would evaluate and certify healthcare apps. The program would articulate quality and performance standards for an app’s clinical relevance and technical functionality, developed by members of a blue ribbon panel in the next six months […]”
Happtique steps up to certify mobile health apps
MobiHealthNews
January 11, 2012
“Happtique, a healthcare-focused appstore, announced plans to create a certification program that will help the medical community determine which of the tens of thousands of health-related mobile apps are clinically appropriate and technically sound […]”
Happtique aims to build a standard for mobile health apps
GigaOM
January 11, 2012
“Many of us are using our smartphones to track our sleep or help manage our weight. A few use them to monitor our blood pressure or track insulin levels, but it’s hard for consumers or their doctors to say what’s a worthwhile app or not… Happtique wants to change all that… Outside of creating app stores for individual hospitals to offer to patients, Happtique is now focusing on a bigger goal — creating a trusted standard for all medical apps […]”
An app store for healthcare pros
Healthcare IT News
January 10, 2012
“The abundance of broadly categorized mobile medical applications that have been developed and distributed in recent years has left some healthcare professionals questioning many apps’ quality and general usability. Happtique, the first mobile app store developed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals, is working to solve this problem with its new, custom hApp Catalog […]”
A helping hand in technology integration
Medical Economics
December 25, 2011
“Nader Mherabi, senior vice president, vice dean, and chief information officer for NYU Langone Medical Center, one of Happtique’s beta-testing partners, says using a “pre-packaged” private application store such as Happtique makes sense […]”
Medical Economics
December 25, 2011
“Happtique, a subsidiary of GNYHA Ventures, the business arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association, has created its own application store for healthcare professionals and filled it with apps curated by a three-person classification team composed of a physician, registered nurse, and medical librarian […]”
Happtique Custom Mobile App Delivery for Clinical Settings
medGadget
December 12, 2011
“Happtique is a new company that is offering healthcare facilities the ability to have their own branded application stores that can be designed specifically for clinicians and patients at each facility. Access can be granted and revoked as patients come and go, and employees that no longer work at the clinic automatically lose their permissions […]”
Happtique brings secure, branded application stores to hospitals and healthcare
TechCrunch
December 7, 2011
“Across the board, hospitals want to offer applications for their doctors and employees to use, but not all of the apps they want to offer are consumer, or even patient, focused. Hospitals and most other care facilities are enterprises, their use case doesn’t fall under healthcare categories of traditional app stores, there is a lot of sensitive and private data within their walls, so they want secure and custom deployment of their apps. This is no easy task. This is where Happtique comes in […]”
HealthSaaS and Happtique team up to connect physicians and patients
iMedicalApps
October 27, 2011
“Recently, HealthSaaS, a champion of the Health 2.0 movement, and Happtique, Inc., a developer of mobile application stores for hospitals and other healthcare organizations, announced they were forming an alliance. These two companies are coming together to create a custom app catalog of mobile health applications that will be used in hospital and physician practice settings […]”
mHealth targeting healthcare professionals
Healthcare IT News
October 21, 2011
“While mhealth or mobile health is taking the world by storm, Happtique, a mobile application store developed specifically for healthcare professionals, aims to make sense of it all. Happtique, Healthcare-APP-bouTIQUE, provides a growing app catalog of what it calls “hApps” or healthcare applications. The store prides itself on its curation since it was developed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals […]”
Apple’s top 50 iPad apps for doctors
MobiHealthNews
October 8, 2011
“It has been an ongoing challenge for healthcare professionals to find useful apps for care settings. While a handful of blogs exist with recommendations from individual medical students or physicians, Happtique has emerged as a filtered medical app store of sorts that intends to make it easier for healthcare facilities to distribute apps […]”
Healthcare application store targets medical community
Mobiledia
October 7, 2011
“The medical community debuted an application store, demonstrating a growing need for tailored apps among healthcare professionals. Happtique, short for “Healthcare App Boutique,” offers medical and healthcare apps and organizes them by user groups, such as “physician,” “nurse” and “pharmacist,” and users can search for apps in a particular focus, such as “cardiovascular.” […]”
Hospitals and mobile health: Time to get involved
Hospital EMR and HER
October 7, 2011
“I admit hospitals aren’t totally oblivious to mobile options. For example: Happtique, an organization spun out from the Greater New York Hospital Association, is working with 11 healthcare organizations, is an app store presenting what it sees as the best enterprise healthcare apps […]”
GNYHA Ventures’ application store
Crain’s Health Pulse
October 6, 2011
“GNYHA Ventures, the hospital association’s for-profit business unit, announced that 11 healthcare entities will use and test its health-oriented mobile application store, Happtique. The 1-yearold venture specializes in creating and selling apps designed by health care professionals that will improve information flow and enable end-users to select apps that could make their jobs easier […]”
Eleven hospitals pilot application store for doctors
MobiHealthNews
October 6, 2011
“Happtique, a spin out from Greater New York Hospital Association Ventures, announced this week that 11 healthcare organizations will beta test its application store for healthcare professionals. The trial will last eight weeks, after which more organizations can sign up for the service, according to the group […]”
FierceHealthcare
October 3, 2011
“Happtique, the first mobile application store developed by healthcare professionals, for healthcare professionals, today announced that eleven top-tier healthcare organizations will use and test the Happtique custom application store solution […]”