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NewsKaiser Permanente debuts EHR mobile app
Kaiser Permanent today launched a mobile app giving more than 9 million patients access to their online medical records. The healthcare giant created a mobile-optimized version of its member website, Read more...
Hospital consolidates med-surg nursing communications on iPhones
Remember "unified communication," the buzzword from earlier this year that described the consolidation of communication services onto a single device? The phrase may not have caught on like some were Read more...
iPad apps open new world for special-needs children
For some, the iPad may be a pricey toy. For others, it's a relatively low-cost means of treatment for special-needs children. According to GigaOM, "The iPad is a recognized tool of therapy for Read more...
Are insurers harnessing the potential of smartphone apps?
After Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina launched an iPhone app that provides users with information for making informed healthcare decisions, FierceHealthPayer's Dina Overland started Read more...
Radiologist reviews iPad image-viewing apps
Dr. Sam Friedman, CTO and director for nuclear medicine at Pitts Radiology in South Carolina, doesn't expect that radiologists will replace their PC-based picture archiving and communications systems Read more...
iPhone app delivers drug alerts, enables adverse event reporting
When it comes to improving patient safety, we say the more incremental steps, the better. File in this category MedWatcher, a new, free, interactive iPhone app to provide real-time surveillance of Read more...
iStethoscope iPhone app goes viral, may invite FDA scrutiny of medical smartphone apps
We media types often visit a site called Media Bistro to find out about happenings in the news business, to network with other journalists and occasionally to market our own services. We don't Read more...
iPhone 4's motion detectors open up a new class of medical apps for British doc
What drives a physician to become a smartphone app developer? Often, it's curiosity and a little bit of luck. Such is the case for Dr. Neil Paul, a British general practitioner who's now working on Read more...
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 Read more...
Twin Cities emerge as a hub of iPhone health app development
The Minneapolis-St. Paul area is home to many well-established medical device companies. Now, the Twin Cities are seeing a new wave of innovation in iPhone apps and accessories for healthcare. Marie Read more...
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