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Global market for handheld healthcare devices to grow 7 percent this year
The global market for handheld mobile devices in healthcare is forecast to grow 7 percent this year to $8.8 billion, compared to $8.2 billion in 2009, partially spurred by the American Recovery and... Read more...
iPad could be 'like gold' for radiology and image sharing
With its 9.7-inch display, resolution of 1024x768 pixels and long battery life, Apple's new, hot-selling iPad could be the first true mobile device to bring medical imaging access to the point of... Read more...
M-health market poised for rapid growth despite fragmentation
Mobile healthcare was a $1.5 billion industry in the U.S. last year, but the market is expected to triple in five years, reaching $4.6 billion by 2014, according to a new report. The growth could be... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Wireless home monitoring devices
Wireless remote patient monitoring is on the radar of the mainstream media. How do we know? Because MedApps CEO Kent Dix appeared on the Fox Business Channel last week to discuss how home medical... Read more...
Web, GPS-based system keep tabs on Alzheimer's patients
If ever there were a debilitating condition that called out for mobile monitoring technology, Alzheimer's disease would be it. And that's why the Alzheimer's Association is teaming with... 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...
Brookings researcher envisions mobile-centric health system
What if the entire healthcare system were mobile? Sure, there would still be hospitals and doctor's offices, but they wouldn't be the center of care. Instead, patients would monitor their own weight,... Read more...
Small Michigan hospital installs big wireless infrastructure
A top-notch wireless infrastructure is no longer the exclusive domain of large, urban hospitals. In Ludington, Mich., 87-bed Memorial Medical Center has just completed a total replacement of its data... Read more...
Ochsner CIO discusses wireless strategy
Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans has had electronic medical records since the 1980s, but the large, multispecialty group practice and hospital system has gone through several expansions of... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Telehealth resource centers
The Arizona Telemedicine Program will establish a new telehealth resource center with the help of a $1.13 million grant from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration. The new Southwest... Read more...
