With flu season hitting hard, today we are highlighting government apps built with maintaining the user’s health in mind. CDC FluView App- tracks Influenza-Like Illness Activity around the country so you can monitor outbreaks in your locality CDC Mobile App and CDC Mobile Web feature important health articles, disease of the week, timely updates and [...]

With mobile use growing exponentially and federal agencies implementing customer-facing mobile services for the Digital Government Strategy, we decided to put together a Mobile Gov resource “cheat sheet” with concepts and information we think will be helpful for agencies implementing Mobile Gov in 2013. Here’s what Mobile Gov implementers need to know! APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) [...]

Believe it or not, there are government apps ready to assist citizens during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Here are some common Turkey Day scenarios with the apps that can help. Thanksgiving Travel– If you are traveling by plane, you can check MyTSA developed by the Transportation Security Administration to find airport wait times, items you [...]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), has created the 52 Weeks for Women’s Health application as a guide for women interested in learning more about their health anytime and anywhere. The app, available on the Android and IOS platforms, lists 52 alphabetical health topics, one for each week [...]

To give their users anytime, anywhere access to information, the  National Institute on Drug Abuse recently implemented a mobile website. The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s mobile Web site, m.drugabuse.gov, gives users quick and easy access to facts about illicit drugs, the science behind addiction, drug abuse research funding, and more. Mobile users benefit from easy-to-find [...]

In order to give people access to government health information anytime, anywhere on any device,  the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health created the MedlinePlus mobile website. MedlinePlus brings free information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language people can understand. Acccording to NLM, the mobile website: allows [...]

Yesterday at the FOSE conference, the Mobile Program Management Office, hosted a Mobile Apps Experience where 9 federal and one local agency gave live demos of their mobile products Steve Jobs style. Here are the 10 participating apps: NSF 360 for iPad SaferBus IRS2Go The Congressional Record NOAA Release Mako Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission MYDS Answers.ed.gov DocsTeach App [...]

The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) BMI Calculator app allows users to check their Body Mass Index (BMI) by inputing their personal data such as weight and height to gain information related to their risk of disease. This app, which is available on the iPhone platform, allows users to quickly get their BMI index on their mobile device by simply [...]