Are people taking payday loans because they are desperate or because they do not understand the…
There have been a lot of pointing fingers lately, who is to blame for the unsustainable financial situation of many American families. Among the usual suspects— Wall Street quantitative, ephemeral mortgage brokers, the…
Payday loan rule can attract hidden loan sharks
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Thursday released its final rule regarding payday loans as well as certain other consumer credit extensions. These loans are generally small, very short term (often only a few weeks)…
New Rules For Payday Lenders Come Into Force Payday loans
Payday lenders will no longer be able to renew loans more than twice or carry out continuous raids on borrowers' bank accounts to recover their cash following the introduction of new rules by the financial regulator.The rules, which come…
Here are the payday lenders with the most consumer complaints
Payday loans are a notorious debt trap. They often prey on vulnerable and desperate consumers and then send them into a downward spiral of debt. Here are the issues customers complain about the most, along with the top five worst…
How payday lenders prey on the poor – and the courts aren’t helping
McNulty wanted to go to court on behalf of Burke and tens of thousands of other payday victims, but she faced an unusually thorny challenge. The fine print of loan agreements prohibited recipients from participating in class actions.…
Under Trump’s nomination, consumer protection agency helps payday lenders
Payday lenders seem to have a powerful friend in Washington. Former Republican Representative Mick Mulvaney is the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He was appointed by President Trump amid an ongoing power…
Cash Store Sentenced To Pay $ 1 Million For Illegal Payday Loans
The Cash Store, which also functions as Installers, was ordered to pay back over $ 1 million to clients in British Columbia who had to pay exorbitant interest rates on payday loans. One of those clients was John Rahberger, a man on…
Federal lawsuit would take Google payday loan crackdown one step further
Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued T3Leads, a Burbank, Calif., Broker who sells consumer loan applications to lenders online, alleging it is doing little to prevent lead generation sites with whom he…
After the Wonga Letters scandal, are there any alternatives to payday loans? | Sustainable…
"People want payday loans, but then people want crack. That doesn't make it a good thing to do." Fiach Maguire, marketing manager of My Community Bank, is no man to mince words.Coming in the week UK's biggest payday lender Wonga agreed…
Vietnam wonders if it should ban loan sharks | Voice of America
HO CHI MINH CITY - In the Vietnamese action blockbuster "Fury" watched primarily on Netflix, the protagonist puts her gang days behind her and becomes a debt collector. The fact that filmmaker Veronica Ngo, whose recent credits include…
Loblaws Deploys PC Health Virtual Healthcare App to More Provinces – MobileSyrup
Loblaws has deployed its PC Health virtual healthcare application in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
The application is now available across Canada in English and French, with the exception of…
Black Doctors Launches New Healthcare App – Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentry
Dr Bill Releford (Courtesy photo)
Finding medical assistance is now much easier, thanks to the Black Doctor 247 app. The new internet resource aims to reduce health disparities within the black community.
According to Dr Bill Releford, the…
Development of health applications in 2021
Concretely, all sectors are going mobile right now, including the health department.
More and more medical and healthcare applications are contributing to the health and well-being of patients around the world. Consumers currently depend…
Knight Foundation Scholarship for Innovation in Health Technology
The scholarship uses an immersive environment to provide participants with a holistic understanding of the need and opportunity to develop new products, services and interventions in healthcare.…
PENTAX Medical Launches Health Technology Funding Program in United States
MONTVALE, New Jersey, February 22, 2021 / PRNewswire / - PENTAX Medical, a leader in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy solutions, today announced the launch of PENTAX Medical Financial Services, a new funding program that provides a…
Roundup: European Commission hosts roundtable on skills for healthcare, app reduces anxiety for NHS…
THE APP HELPS THE WELL-BEING OF NHS STAFF DURING A PANDEMIC
A mental health app, My Possible Self has developed a digital mental health intervention in partnership with the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and the NHS…
Future challenges for the development of healthcare applications
Don't you appreciate the convenience of accessing everything from your phone? These days you don't have to go to the hospital to check your blood pressure. All you need is a cell phone. Applications are essential to ensure such…
5 incredible healthcare app ideas for startups to turn the pandemic into an opportunity
Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for mobile health applications has been growing exponentially and the rise of this unforeseen situation will cause the industry to grow more than estimated.
According to Mobile health time…
How health technology has advanced these two beneficial procedures
Improvements in health and well-being are direct benefits of technological advances in recent years. Major advances such as mobile technology and the Internet are often seen as a double-edged sword when it comes to our quality of life.…
COVID-19 pandemic advances healthcare technology
64% believe COVID-19 has cutting edge technology in health.
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In the event of a health pandemic, 83% are more aware of their own health and that of those around them because of COVID-19. And that's because COVID-19 has…
Arogga raises investments for pharmaceutical and healthcare application
Arogga has secured an investment from Dubai-based investment firm Falcon Network for its pharmacy and healthcare application.
Falcon Network focuses on mission-driven entrepreneurs and businesses in high growth markets, and members…
Arogga Raises Investments for Its Falcon Network Pharmacy and Healthcare App
Dhaka-based health tech start-up Arogga secures funding to revolutionize the future of healthcare in BangladeshFalcon adds Arogga to its impact-driven healthcare investment portfolio in Bangladesh
Arogga, a Dhaka-based healthcare…
Arogga raises investments for its Falcon Network pharmacy and healthcare app
Falcon Network focuses on mission-driven entrepreneurs and businesses in high growth markets, and members include high net worth individuals from across Asia committed to investing in the potential of their home markets. Since its…
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Team Designs Virtual Healthcare App
In the spring of 2021 semester, students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's College of Nursing will get first-hand experience by testing a new virtual healthcare app designed by a team of faculty and students from…
Rizek from Abu Dhabi is the first non-medical app to introduce COVID-19 test
A non-healthcare tech startup has become the first of its kind to offer on-demand polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Abu Dhabi-based Rizek, which specializes in booking personal and home…
7 healthcare app ideas for your startup
In this mobile age, people have become very dependent on mobile applications for obtaining health services. This is one of the reasons for the increase in demand for applications in the healthcare field. If you, too, want to make…
Top five drivers of the global healthcare applications market
Portland, OR, August 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - 2019 has been a banner year for the world health applications market, with revenues up 40.9% to $ 10,235.0 million. The market is on track for solid growth over the next five years,…
Why over 40,000 people log into this maternity care app every month
Alba Padro (left) and Maria Berruezo (right), co-founders of the maternity care app, LactApp.
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After witnessing a strong demand for fertility and maternity advice, two women developed an app that now has…
OCBC Bank launches healthcare app to provide access to telehealth services
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited or more commonly known as OCBC Bank, a multinational banking and financial services company, headquartered in Singapore and listed on the stock exchange, announced yesterday the launch of the…
MyMedicNow Launches Mobile Health Care App to Bridge the Gap Between Patients and Doctors
UAE company MyMedicNow has launched a new app that it says connects patients to the right doctors by allowing patients to search by symptoms or medical conditions.
The NEW app aims to help patients search for medical conditions and find…
Eight Proven Ways To Instill Confidence And Credibility With Your Healthcare Website
Don't waste business - or, more importantly, the chance to help patients in need - because of poor website design.This article was originally published on June 5, 2020 on PSQH by Katie Lundin.If you work in the healthcare industry, you…
MyMedicNow launches mobile healthcare app to bridge the gap between patients and doctors
UAE company MyMedicNow has launched a new app which it says connects patients with the right doctors by allowing patients to search by symptoms or medical conditions. The NEW app aims to help patients research medical conditions and find…
IU Creates Healthcare App to Track COVID
Students at the IU School of Nursing met in February before mobilizing to conduct rural home health care visits to Orange County (photo courtesy of Eric Rudd
Indiana University has…
7 essentials for your health site
Just because your practice has a website doesn't mean you are effectively reaching your audienceIn today's world, meeting patients where they are means marketing and communicating with them online. This is especially true in healthcare,…
Prudential launches AI-powered mobile healthcare app
Journalist ,SingaporeIt can be used to check symptoms and consult doctors via video.Prudential Singapore has deployed an AI-based mobile app that gives customers 24/7 access to healthcare services, according to a press release.Using…
Rajasthan government partners with healthcare app ‘Aayu’ to fight COVID-19
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The government of Rajasthan has exclusively partnered with healthcare startup MedCords to provide 24/7 online consultation and drug delivery to people in Rajasthan as state struggles to control cases of…
26 Vancouver hospitals adopt healthcare app designed by tech companies and BC government
BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital are among 26 Vancouver-area health facilities that have started using a new app that tracks staff and resources in real time.
The app, COVID-19 Critical Care Resource…
26 Vancouver hospitals adopt health care app that saves lives in British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia - (COMMERCIAL THREAD) - BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital are among 26 Vancouver-area health facilities adopting new app to fight COVID-19. The app allows hospitals to track staff and…
Medici Virtual Healthcare app wins BIG Innovation Award 2020
AUSTIN, Texas, January 28, 2020 / PRNewswire / - Medici, a virtual healthcare company based in Austin, announced today that she has been named the winner of the Innovation Awards 2020 presented by the Business Intelligence Group.
With…
Hackers attack Indian healthcare website, steal 68 lakh records
In a startling revelation, US cybersecurity firm FireEye said on Thursday that hackers broke into a leading India-based healthcare website, stealing 68 lakh files containing information about patients and doctors.
Without naming the…
8 new healthcare app development trends to watch in 2019
In 2019, the development of healthcare apps is already mind-boggling due to their variety and options.
Previously, these applications were seen as a platform for real-time counseling between physicians and patients from outside or…
GlobalData Calls Health Apps Market to Watch in 2019
March 8, 2019 - Health technology, especially health applications (apps) for smart devices, is a rapidly growing field with very different targets and objectives. With continued improvements in tablets and smartphones, the health apps…
Apple and Aetna team up on new healthcare app
Apple will have access to a huge mine of detailed health data as part of a new Apple Watch partnership with US insurer Aetna. CVSAetna and Apple have jointly developed a new app called Attain, which is slated to launch in the coming…
The Health App Economy Is Coming: Prepare for the Data Quake
Ahead of the Blue Button Developer Conference on Monday, I walked into the US Digital Service for a pre-party of sorts. The USDS hosted this mix of people in full suits rubbing elbows with tattooed technologists wearing t-shirts.
In the…
American start-up launches bilingual health app –
HoyHealth, an innovative healthcare technology start-up, has launched HoyDoc, a smartphone app that connects patients to healthcare providers via a bilingual telemedicine platform.HoyDoc was developed for patients seeking remote and…
Loma Linda University Health Launches New Healthcare Website
Loma Linda University Health's newly redesigned healthcare website launched today at lluh.org. The site aims to help patients and families find what they are looking for as quickly and easily as possible. Patients can access what they…
Healthcare app offers personalized assistance for employee medical decisions
Communicating to employees which benefits are right for them is always a top concern for HR professionals. If an employee is not enrolled in the right health plan for them, serious procedures could lead to significant expenses and higher…
Top 7 Trends in Healthcare Application Development
The development of healthcare applications has increased in recent years, helping both…
Native American Doctor and Wife Launch New Health Care Website in Illinois
Ish and Deepali Singla with their children (Courtesy: Facebook)NEW YORK - Native American physician Ish Singla, interventional cardiologist at Springfield Clinic and his wife Deepali Singla have launched a website to give patients around…
4 Tips for a Successful Mobile Health App
At the Louisville Innovation Summit, three healthcare experts discussed how app developers can make their product appealing to investors and clinicians. Here's what you need to know.
The mobile…
Can you trust your healthcare app?
Your smartphone can bring a car to your doorstep, connect you with loved ones around the world, and help you order pizza without talking to a single human in the process. But then you hear reports of a corporate hack or a major credit…
MyTransHealth trans healthcare website launches kickstarter
Have you ever made a doctor's appointment, only to be turned away and tell yourself that your doctor couldn't help you?
This is a problem that…
ISIS Hackers Take Over Local Healthcare Website; the company tries to assure patients that their…
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Oracle sues Oregon officials in dispute over healthcare website
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Oracle America Inc, the software giant in charge of developing the failed Oregon health exchange website, has filed a lawsuit against five former staff and campaign advisers at the former state governor, saying…
Obama: “I Was Burned” By Health Website
President Barack Obama's apologies to losing Americans health coverage under Obamacare maybe in fact made him regret more.In an interview with MSNBC host…
Obama defends health website as Republicans continue attacks | Barack obama
President Barack Obama used his weekly address on Saturday to defend the Healthcare.gov website at the heart of its iconic healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act. The $ 394 million website, which makes it easier for members of the…
Obama appoints Jeffrey Zients to fix health website | Health in the United States
The ailing Healthcare.gov website will be fixed by the end of November, the Obama administration said on Friday as the US government appointed a new contractor to lead the program.Jeffrey Zients, the person President Obama has appointed to…
Report: Healthcare website failed test before deployment
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NEW: Official White House Top as part of the âtech waveâ on Obamacare
Obamacare 'does not fail' despite website issues, White House spokesman…