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App developers take HHS, IOM up on their data-mining offer
Just two months ago, HHS and the Institute of Medicine started the Community Health Data Initiative to encourage IT developers to mine vast storehouses of publicly available health data. Some already... Read more...
Lists, lists and more lists: two more publications pick their favorite healthcare smartphone apps
Everybody loves lists. The two most popular stories in the 15-month history of FierceMobileHealthcare haven't actually been stories, but our slideshows of 15 free healthcare apps for the iPhone and... Read more...
New Cius tablet takes on Apple's iPad
Many people thought the iPhone was going to shake up mobile healthcare until Google's Android operating system came along. The same could happen for larger devices, too. Though Apple has sold more... Read more...
'Verizon vs. AT&T' just as important as 'iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. Android'
Competition in the smartphone market is, well, fierce, and that's just as true in healthcare as in any other industry. And choosing the right phone isn't an easy chore, as we find out in a new post... Read more...
Physician smartphone adoption said to top 80 percent by 2012
More than 80 percent of U.S. physicians will have smartphones by 2012--up from 64 percent in 2009--and half of that group will use their phones for patient care, administrative functions like charge... Read more...
Mobile apps popular at the point of care, but there's plenty more to come
Smartphones are so popular in medicine now that some health professionals "don't know how colleagues manage without them," C. Peter Waegemann, vice president of development for the Boston-based... Read more...
Start-up firm consolidates nurse paging and communications on iPhone
About three years ago, Trey Lauderdale was working with a telecom equipment company that counted a number of hospitals among its clientèle. He heard that nurses and IT managers were frustrated... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Android apps
Lest anyone forget, there's a fifth mobile operating system out there, joining Palm OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone in a very competitive marketplace. It's from Google and it's an... Read more...
