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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...

Report: 94 percent of docs have smartphones, but communication gaps persist

How ubiquitous have smartphones become among physicians? A new report from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Spyglass Consulting Group says that an astounding 94 percent of doctors are using smartphones to... 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...

'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...

SPOTLIGHT: BlackBerry as a pager replacement

University Health Network in Toronto has replaced the pagers in its clinical inpatient teaching units in general internal medicine with "role-based" BlackBerry smartphones. The BlackBerrys don't... 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...

Wireless sensors, mobile phones aid obesity battle

It's been widely reported that people have been using the Nintendo Wii, particularly the Wii Fit, to get in shape. Well, researchers have seized upon this trend to monitor Wii players--as well as... 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...

New mobile site for North Shore-LIJ isn't watered down

The news that a health system has optimized its website for mobile use normally wouldn't merit a feature story in FierceMobileHealthcare, but North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, N.Y., gives... Read more...

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