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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...
Survey: Smartphone use set to boom in home care
Among the approximately 40 percent of home care agencies that employ point-of-care computer systems in the field, laptops currently command two-thirds of the market. That, however, is set to shift to... Read more...
15 Free Healthcare Apps for the BlackBerry
BlackBerry smartphones have evolved from handy mobile email devices into full-fledged, powerful smartphones. And like iPhone users have the Apple App Store, BlackBerry customers have Research in... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Bilingual mobile EMR software
Given that Research in Motion is one of Canada's most vaunted companies (and will be even more so if founder Jim Balsillie succeeds in moving the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team to Ontario), and given... Read more...
Epocrates: Nurses prefer Palm but physicians love the iPhone
A recently released survey from mobile healthcare software developer Epocrates indicates that nurses still prefer Palm PDAs and smartphones for viewing Epocrates reference tools, though the... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Mobile dental practice management
We talk plenty about mobile software that helps doctors find, record and track clinical information, but a division of Carestream Health has come up with an iPhone and BlackBerry app that combines... Read more...
