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Leaders in San Diego m-health community discuss wireless innovation, roadblocks
Readers of FierceMobileHealthcare understand how wireless and mobile technologies have the potential to revolutionize healthcare. Now, the wider business community is starting to figure that out. "I... Read more...
Continua Health Alliance to offer library of interoperable connectivity code for smartphones
The Continua Health Alliance is building a library of source code to connect interoperable personal health devices and health records via smartphones, Healthcare IT News reports. This mobile Continua... Read more...
UK project to develop wireless sensors for 'smart' homes for elderly
Money just continues to flow into R&D for home health monitoring technologies. A team at the University of Portsmouth, England, has received a grant of 128,000 pounds ($184,000) to develop... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: GE invests in home-health technology research
GE Healthcare is giving $3 million to an Irish research institution to help develop new technologies to facilitate independent living in aging populations. In the wake of GE's acquisition of Living... Read more...
Remote home monitoring makes nurses more efficient
Know what a jaffle iron is? We didn't either. It's the Aussie name for what we might call a sandwich press. What does that have to do with mobile healthcare? Nothing at all, except that's how one... Read more...
Study: Remote health monitoring growing, but restrained by payment policies
Remote health management represents just 1.4 percent of the market for home health monitoring in the U.S., but it's expected to double from $1.8 billion in 2007 to $3.6 billion in 2012, representing... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: British government pledges millions for home telehealth
The government of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged 130 million pounds ($216 million) to provide home telehealth care and home adaptations to help an estimated 130,000 people live... Read more...
Poll: Patients most in need of mobile health are least interested
A week ago, we brought you the news, courtesy of sister publication FierceWireless, about a Harris Interactive poll that found that more than two-thirds of American consumers are intrigued by the... 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...
SPOTLIGHT: Bilingual mobile EMR software
Given that Research in Motion is one of Canada's most vaunted companies (and will be even more so if founder Jim Balsillie succeeds in moving the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team to Ontario), and given... Read more...
