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NewsRenowned infection disease treatment guide gets a mobile makeover
Facing increasing pressure from competitors, the ubiquitous Sanford Guide for prevention and treatment of infectious disease just debuted its first mobile app. The new app gives physicians mobile 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...
UK med school pushes patient safety with iPhones
American medical schools have been doing this for a few years now, but the University of Leeds says it recently became the first in the UK to outfit each of its med students with the iPhone 3G S. Read more...
Epocrates, CDC develop injection safety mobile program
With more than a million healthcare professionals--including 40 percent of U.S. physicians--using Epocrates reference software, many of them on mobile devices, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company Read more...
Badges detect whether hospital workers have sanitized their hands
"Smart" employee badges are getting smarter. WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind., highlights technology at an unspecified hospital that can detect whether caregivers have sanitized their hands by sensing the Read more...
N.C. hospital saves time and money, improves staff morale with RTLS technology
A real-time location system, a form of RFID particularly useful for tracking the movement of high-value assets, saved a North Carolina hospital $750,000 by cutting the amount of time staff spent Read more...
Picking mobile hardware is no easy chore
With the advancement of technology, there have never been more choices for mobile computing, from the humble laptop computer to pricey tablet PCs to sleek, new smartphones. Even COWs--computers on Read more...
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