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Physician smartphone adoption said to top 80 percent by 2012
More than 80 percent of U.S. physicians will have smartphones by 2012--up from 64 percent in 2009--and half of that group will use their phones for patient care, administrative functions like charge... Read more...
Healthcare organizations seemingly lax with mobile security
A third of all healthcare professionals store patient data on portable and mobile devices such as USB drives, laptops and mobile phones, according to a 2008 survey by Credant Technologies. Another... Read more...
Tongue controls wheelchair for quadriplegics
Now how's this for cool? Researchers at Georgia Tech are testing a wheelchair for quadriplegics controlled by the tongue. A magnet in the mouth acts like a mouse pad, relaying wireless signals to... Read more...
Study: Early literature on PDA effectiveness in hospitals is inconclusive
It's fair to say a good many hospital-based users of mobile devices believe handheld gadgets truly do improve workflow and likely have a positive impact on patient safety. But the scientific... 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...
mHealth Initiative re-launches web site, plans international conference
The mHealth Initiative, the organization that succeeded the now-defunct Medical Records Institute earlier this year, is already doing some re-branding. The Boston-based group, headed by longtime... Read more...
Halamka: Security must extend to wireless networks, mobile devices
When Dr. John Halamka talks, people listen. The CIO of Harvard Medical School and CareGroup Healthcare System--not to mention chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel,... Read more...
Ochsner CIO discusses wireless strategy
Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans has had electronic medical records since the 1980s, but the large, multispecialty group practice and hospital system has gone through several expansions of... Read more...
RFID tracks infant pneumonia in Pakistan
We've written frequently about the increasing use of mobile technology to provide basic health services in developing countries, but often we're talking about nothing more advanced than text... Read more...
Mobile technology could help contain a flu pandemic
With wireless technology so ubiquitous in society today, you'd think that someone would figure out a way to set up field clinics and triage units to respond to, say, an outbreak of the H1N1 virus,... Read more...
