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Mass General to test Merge Healthcare's mobile imaging apps
Massachusetts General Hospital will serve as a test lab for Merge Healthcare's new mobile applications that support workflow in medical imaging, as part of a recently announced partnership between... Read more...
Physicians split on iPad's impact as healthcare apps debut
The iPad won't be on sale for another month, but the floodgates have already opened for apps to run on the new Apple device, the healthcare field included. We report elsewhere in today's newsletter... Read more...
Study: Smartphones, PDAs just as good as 'secondary' monitors for reading images
It's not a pipe dream to say smartphones, PDAs and other handheld devices like iPod Touch could soon become indispensable tools for emergency radiology teleconsultation. In fact, now there is some... Read more...
Handheld ultrasound to make its Olympics debut
Handheld ultrasound is ready for its close-up, in front of a global audience. Physicians at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, will be able to take images right on the spot with... Read more...
Study: iPhone image quality adequate for diagnosing appendicitis
Screen resolution of smartphones, particularly Apple's iPhone, has gotten so good that handsets are now suitable for making quick, preliminary diagnoses of acute appendicitis, a new study suggests.... Read more...
Engineer turns cell phone into low-cost microscope for quick field testing
Need to run a blood or tissue test pronto, but don't have ready access to a lab? Well, as the commercial goes, there's an app for that. An engineering professor at UCLA's California NanoSystems... Read more...
Dedicated Bluetooth connection resolves speed, connectivity issues that hold back telemedicine
When it comes to technology in healthcare, speed is everything. If a new technology slows doctors down, watch how fast they revert to their old ways. So there's some promising news out of India in... Read more...
MIT course leads to innovative mobile health applications
In the short time FierceMobileHealthcare has been around, we've written plenty about the potential for basic cell phones to improve healthcare in developing countries that lack the resources of the... Read more...
'Pocket' ultrasounds bring low-cost imaging to the point of care
"Portable medical imaging" may sound like an oxymoron, conjuring up thoughts of mobile MRI units that travel in 53-foot semi-trailers. (Anyone who's ever seen the mammoth Radiological Society of... Read more...
Wireless is no longer a novelty in hospitals
We've highlighted some of the "Most Wireless" hospitals among the annual Hospitals & Health Networks "Most Wired" list, but we were frustrated by our inability to find more than a few details... Read more...
