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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...
Smartphone apps moving into regulatory gray area
This is the kind of statement that might scare the daylights out of your average healthcare software developer: "Medical applications are technically medical devices and therefore subject to federal... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Ways mobile computing is changing medicine
We're not big fans of sites that exist solely for search-engine optimization, but occasionally one will have an interesting blog post that's completely unrelated to the site's domain name. Such is... Read more...
Mobile health featured at CTIA Wireless 2010
CTIA Wireless 2010 kicks off today in Las Vegas, and though FierceMobileHealthcare isn't there for the 25th annual event, mobile health and wellness products will have a prominent presence. On the... Read more...
Study: Smartphones, PDAs just as good as 'secondary' monitors for reading images
It's not a pipe dream to say smartphones, PDAs and other handheld devices like iPod Touch could soon become indispensable tools for emergency radiology teleconsultation. In fact, now there is some... Read more...
Study: iPhone image quality adequate for diagnosing appendicitis
Screen resolution of smartphones, particularly Apple's iPhone, has gotten so good that handsets are now suitable for making quick, preliminary diagnoses of acute appendicitis, a new study suggests.... Read more...
Engineer turns cell phone into low-cost microscope for quick field testing
Need to run a blood or tissue test pronto, but don't have ready access to a lab? Well, as the commercial goes, there's an app for that. An engineering professor at UCLA's California NanoSystems... Read more...
New gadgets give a glimpse of future wireless health technology
Ready for some eye candy? We know you are, if the traffic to our recent slideshow of healthcare apps for the BlackBerry is a reliable indicator. This time, the pretty pictures come Cambridge... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: The next wave of mobile consumer health apps
Mobile phones could help transform consumers into laboratory technicians or food safety inspectors by collecting blood or sputum samples, or helping people determine if meat is contaminated, says... Read more...
