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NewsAir Force medevac planes deliver mobile health on a grand scale
Call it mobile health on a grand scale. Healthcare experts generally recommend against patient transfers whenever possible, but not the U.S. military when treating trauma cases in combat zones. Read more...
AT&T ForHealth services aim to reduce costs, bolster care
AT&T has launched a major, coordinated foray into the healthcare sector, aimed at lowering costs and supporting a fundamental change in how care is delivered, among other things, according to Read more...
Many using iPads in healthcare, but few have deployment strategies
"iPad and other kinds of tablets are going to permeate the [healthcare] enterprise," Brian Reed, vice president of products at BoxTone, a Columbia, Md.-based mobile service management firm, said Read more...
iPad just what the doctor ordered for Nimble creators
Last week, we had a short "Also Noted" item on ClearPractice introducing what the St. Louis-based company calls "the first comprehensive EMR solution developed in iOS to run natively on the iPad." Read more...
New mobile apps help clinicians sort through mounds of data, reference material
Let's face it, healthcare professionals are drowning in data. Even though most medical records remain on paper, researchers churn out page after page after page of new medical literature. Those with Read more...
'Most Wireless' hospitals improve data collection and access, reduce patient movement
A truer statement may never have been written about health IT: "electronically delivered patient information is only as useful as its capacity to be used." That line is from a Hospitals & Health Read more...
Epic developing iPad app as hospitals wrestle with how to deploy Apple's tablet
After releasing an iPhone app called Haiku earlier this year, privately held EMR vendor Epic Systems is developing Canto, a native app for the iPad, CMIO reports. And clinical leaders at Tampa Read more...
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 Read more...
Globaltel, ScribeWell combine to offer SMS transcription, image exchange
Text-messaging software company Globaltel Media has teamed up with medical transcription firm Scribe-Well to create what's being billed as the first application that allows transcriptionists to send Read more...
Paper: Wireless monitoring allows more accurate study of COPD, Parkinson's patients
Wireless monitors can allow healthcare professionals to observe patients with debilitating conditions such as Parkinson's disease or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) under normal living Read more...
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