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New cardiac remote monitoring kit extends testing to two weeks

Canadian vendor, m-Health Solutions Inc., just debuted a new smartphone-based cardiac monitoring system that allows patients to track their cardiac rhythms over a full two weeks--far beyond the usual Read more...

Bluetooth heart monitors could prevent thousands of strokes

Continuing the very international theme of this week's issue, we bring you news from just across the border in Windsor, Ontario, where researchers are starting to test whether new, wireless heart Read more...

Hospital calls on young iPad app developers to revamp IT

It sounded like just another quirky idea from some young software developers: Build an iPad app to give hospital-based physicians all the information they need at the bedside right on their portable Read more...

Sprint, Calgary Scientific get FDA approval for image viewer on smartphone

High-resolution medical images can look great and serve a useful clinical purpose on the larger, sharper screens of the most advanced smartphones, but speed of the Internet connection may have been a Read more...

Smartphone apps can perpetuate poor work processes

Fans of smartphone healthcare apps, it's time for a little buzzkill. "Access to health information at the touch of a finger represents a technological advance leading to efficient healthcare service Read more...

iPad positives seem to outweigh the drawbacks for healthcare

Overwhelmingly strong iPad sales in the U.S. have prompted Apple to delay the product's introduction in foreign markets, but that hasn't stopped health IT reporters in other countries from licking 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...

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...

BlackBerry-based network streamlines home-health coordination

Assigning home health workers to patients in Canada used to take two hours, but an application for the BlackBerry has trimmed the process to 15 minutes. Instead of nurses playing phone tag with Read more...

Canadian province tests remote ICU monitoring with phone, video, data links

Remote ICU monitoring has been around for several years to provide round-the-clock virtual coverage of critical care patients at facilities that can't afford to have intensivists on duty at all Read more...

Press Releases

Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and the Canadian Voices of Asbestos Victims announce the Release of the North Amer

Declaration Calls on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama to take action on asbestos WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) Read more >>

CardioComm Solutions, Inc. Enters Into Equipment Purchase Agreement with AstraZeneca Canada

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CardioComm Solutions, Inc. (TSX-V: EKG), a leading provider of innovative hardware and software solutions for cardiovascular health management, has signed an equipment Read more >>

Pfizer Invites Public To View And Listen To Webcast Of August 2 Conference Call With Analysts

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pfizer Inc. invites investors and the general public to view and listen to a webcast of a conference call with investment analysts at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 2, Read more >>

National Research Corporation Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

LINCOLN, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- National Research Corporation (NASDAQ:NRCI) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.22 (twenty-two cents) per Read more >>

Carefx Interoperability Platform, Fusionfx, to be Demonstrated at HIMSS11 Interoperability Showcase Following Successful Testing

Participating for the second year, Carefx again passes interoperability testing with multiple EHR vendorsCHICAGO, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Carefx Corporation, leader of interoperable workflow Read more >>