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PR exec: Don't ignore mobile in healthcare marketing plans
Don't ignore mobile platforms when developing a healthcare marketing plan or, in the case of regulated products, for safety monitoring and regulatory compliance, says one marketing and... Read more...
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...
HIMSS10: Fundamental, social changes needed to integrate mobile apps into healthcare
While mobile applications are rapidly multiplying in the field of healthcare, Shriner's Hospitals for Children CMIO Dr. William Bria believes that full integration of wireless applications won't be... 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...
Epocrates: 20 percent of docs will buy an iPad
Just days after Apple unveiled the iPad mobile computing device, nearly 20 percent of physicians already intend to purchase one within a year and another 38 percent are interested in the iPad but... Read more...
Man trapped by Haiti quake treats own injuries with iPhone app
We can envision the screaming tabloid headlines now: "iPHONE SAVED MY LIFE." (We're pretty sure Apple has the good sense not to run an ad like that.) But the bottom line is, an iPhone helped a man... Read more...
Epic releases EMR app for iPhone
As is its custom, Epic Systems this month quietly released a long-awaited iPhone app for secure, mobile access to electronic medical records. Called Haiku, the app is a free download on iTunes for... Read more...
Start-up firm consolidates nurse paging and communications on iPhone
About three years ago, Trey Lauderdale was working with a telecom equipment company that counted a number of hospitals among its clientèle. He heard that nurses and IT managers were frustrated... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Mobile telemedicine growth
Wireless and mobile applications and devices will account for 70 percent of a U.S. telemedicine market that's expected to reach $3.6 billion a year by 2014, according to a study from research firm... Read more...
Mobile apps push more clinical data to smartphones
Here at FierceMobileHealthcare, we're fairly sure a good number of you, our loyal readers, saw the story in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday about how Apple and Research in Motion are making... Read more...
