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NewsRobot ER staff could speed triage
Within the next five years, robots could help speed the ER triage process, according to Mitch Wilkes, associate director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and associate professor of electrical Read more...
RSNA: iPad helps untether radiologists from reading room
Mobility is coming to radiology, and the iPad has a lot to do with that. At this week's Radiological Society of North America annual conference in Chicago, several teams of researchers are presenting Read more...
LifeBot gets option to market Army's 'Super Ambulance' telemedicine system
LifeBot, a home telehealth company founded by inventor and entrepreneur R. Lee Heath--who created the technology that enabled the automatic external defibrillator--has received an option to obtain Read more...
Healthcare is No. 3 sector for iPad adoption
Healthcare is one of the top three industries using Apple's hot-selling iPad tablet, behind only the financial and technology sectors, according to data from mobility service provider Good Read more...
DoD telehealth center releases app for mental health; BlackBerry PlayBook SDK features imaging app;
> The National Center for Telehealth and Technology, one of the military's Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, has developed a free smartphone app Read more...
Medical-alert jewelry lets high-risk patients access critical data in emergencies
Call it smart jewelry. We tend to ignore most stories about personal health records because, despite the hype, PHRs haven't exactly caught on with the public. But when Tiffany & Co. comes up with Read more...
Physician studying diagnoses from phone-generated photos
Thank you, Washington Post for saying something we've been trying to emphasize at FierceMobileHealthcare since we started publishing nearly a year and a half ago: "'Mobile health' does not mean a Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Is ER text messaging service just a marketing ploy?
With more and more hospitals offering ER wait times by text message, some patterns have developed. "In my opinion, it's a true marketing ploy," Dr. David Seaberg, a member of the board of American Read more...
Mobile telemedicine system beams live video from ambulance to Cincinnati Children's
This is the kind of story we love--so much so that we mentioned this exact case already a few months ago. We refer to the Transport AV telemedicine system in use at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Read more...
Taiwan president sees Wi-Max as central to disaster prevention
After seeing how useful Wi-Max can be for emergency medical care, the president of Taiwan wants the wireless broadband technology employed as part of an island-wide communications strategy for Read more...
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