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Patients favor secure email over social media for medical consultations
Consumers reject the idea of using social media to consult with their physician, according to a recent study. But many patients would be willing to use secure messaging to go online with their
Accountable care will require fierce communication strategies
Accountable care organizations must use social networking and other modern communication strategies to engage patients and keep them on track, particularly since there's "a whole generation of
Surgeons connect with iPhone 4's FaceTime videoconferencing app
Surprise, surprise! Doctors have already been finding ways to incorporate the new iPhone 4 and its videoconferencing features into their practice of medicine. Well, at least a few intrepid physicians
Hospital CIOs look to unify communications on a single mobile device
As far as hospital CIOs are concerned, the new buzzword in mobile healthcare is "unified communications." In other words, they want to deliver voice, data and text services to a single device, or at
Docs, it's time to embrace online chat and texting with patients
At February's mHealth Initiative networking conference in pre-"snowpocalypse" Washington, Dr. Andrew Barbash, neurosciences director at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., spoke of how he used
Mobile health technology leads the revolution
As I mentioned last week, I attended the mHealth Initiative's first mobile networking conference--and was lucky enough to get out of Washington Friday morning just ahead of an historic snowstorm
Mobile communications could help contain H1N1 outbreaks
We haven't even hit the autumnal equinox and already my local Walgreens is advertising flu shots, hinting that this could be one of the worst flu seasons in recent memory. And this isn't even the
Q&A with Research In Motion's Fraser Edward
The iPhone may be making some deep inroads in healthcare, but Manhattan Research says the BlackBerry still rules the physician smartphone market. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is not looking
SPOTLIGHT: Mobile physician Jay Parkinson
Dr. Jay Parkinson of Brooklyn, NY, has become a regular at many health IT conferences of late, since he's one of the innovative physicians behind Hello Health, a medical practice that caters to young
