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Telemedicine, remote monitoring aid care aboard offshore oil rigs

The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 and set off one of the worst environmental disasters in history is an extreme case, but workers on even the safest of offshore rigs are

'Smart' Band-Aids signal new possibilities for remote monitoring

"Smart" Band-Aids that can detect vital signs and alert healthcare professionals when there's an abnormal reading may be new, but they represent more than a decade of advances in the field of remote

CompuMed to provide EKG, telemedicine to California schools

Remember when the school nurse could do little more than take temperatures, check for sore throats and patch up playground scrapes? Well, some school infirmaries in California are about to go

SPOTLIGHT: Visio Mobile Diagnostics employs CompuMed mobile EKG reading, EMR

Visio Mobile Diagnostics, a mobile x-ray and cardiac diagnostic services company in Ohio, is employing CompuMed telemedicine and mobile EMR technology at hospitals, home-health agencies and long-term

SPOTLIGHT: Visio Mobile Diagnostics employs CompuMed mobile EKG reading, EMR

Visio Mobile Diagnostics, a mobile x-ray and cardiac diagnostic services company in Ohio, is employing CompuMed telemedicine and mobile EMR technology at hospitals, home-health agencies and long-term

EMS veteran offers more clarity on EKG story

My Dec. 1 story about the Florida EMS installing Bluetooth technology and mobile modems in ambulances to send EKG data to hospitals really has legs. When it first ran, some readers commented that

Mobile apps push more clinical data to smartphones

Here at FierceMobileHealthcare, we're fairly sure a good number of you, our loyal readers, saw the story in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday about how Apple and Research in Motion are making

Study: Cardiologists seeing more patients for less pay

Cardiologists are on something of a treadmill; they're seeing steadily more patients and and performing more tests, but their reimbursement rates are falling for both Medicare beneficiaries and

VA cuts EKG review time to three minutes with mobile system

Cardiologists at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, DC, are testing a BlackBerry-based system that lets them read EKGs and prescribe treatment within three minutes, even when