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NewsMIT security breakthrough may prevent mobile hacks
As healthcare security pundits increasingly warn of rampant security threats associated with mobile phones, tablets and other devices, researchers at MIT may have found a solution to at least one Read more...
Google reportedly will debut medical apps category for Android
Google allegedly is planning to unveil a medical category for apps in the Android Marketplace, according to iMedicalApps.com. Back in early November, the website wrote an open letter to Google Read more...
Apps can't always change patient behavior
It's time for a reality check in mobile healthcare. The myriad smartphone apps for healthcare generally are wonderful, low-cost tools for improving a small part of healthcare. But apps by themselves Read more...
Ideal Life to provide remote monitoring for 100,000 in China
In what is being called the largest remote health monitoring project in the world, Canadian mobile health technology company Ideal Life is teaming with a Chinese pharmaceutical and medical-supply Read more...
Air Force medevac planes deliver mobile health on a grand scale
Call it mobile health on a grand scale. Healthcare experts generally recommend against patient transfers whenever possible, but not the U.S. military when treating trauma cases in combat zones. Read more...
Wireless, mobile products in short supply at massive Medica show
The massive Radiological Society of North America is underway in Chicago now--without your Chicago-based editor, who's not back from Thanksgiving travels yet--but the 60,000 people who visit that Read more...
Consumers, clinicians alike will drive m-health
Some people believe consumers will drive the mobile health "revolution." Others believe the impetus for change is coming from clinicians themselves. And then there's a third opinion: "Both, and for Read more...
Funding m-health via 'alpha daughters'
Patient-centered care is one thing. Now how about designing a business model not necessarily around the patient, but around the family caregiver? In this case, call her the "alpha daughter," the Read more...
500M will use smartphone health apps worldwide by 2015
There will be 1.4 billion people with smartphones worldwide by 2015, and 500 million of them will be using mobile health applications, according to a new study from German analysis firm Read more...
NIH, its foundation put their money where their mouths are
As we briefly touched on last week, the National Institutes of Health plans on awarding 150 grants for mobile health IT projects this year. Healthcare IT News fills in some more details from last Read more...
| Press Releases2011 mHealth Summit Attracted Industry Leaders from Around the GlobeThird-annual event successfully convened global mHealth ecosystem to share knowledge and build sustainable solutions in mobile healthNATIONAL HARBOR, Md., Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2011 Read more >> Healthcare Practices Embrace Mobile Technologies, New CompTIA Research RevealsTablets and medical apps usage on the rise; remote access to EMR/EHR data a priority DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mobile health (mHealth) is becoming more of a reality as medical practices Read more >> Invitation to Press: Exclusive Access to the 2011 mHealth Summit Shaping the Future of Mobile HealthWhere Technology, Business, Research, and Policy ConnectWASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On behalf of the organizers of the 3rd Annual 2011 mHealth Summit, we would like to invite you to Read more >> Verizon Wireless COO John Stratton to Deliver Keynote Address at 2011 mHealth SummitOperator of the nation's largest 4G LTE and 3G networks returns as Partnering Sponsor of eventBETHESDA, Md., Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Read more >> New Mobile App Spells Relief for People With Skin AllergiesCARD app from Preventice uses Mayo Clinic expertise to help allergy sufferers customize shopping lists, get information about allergens, and share information with physiciansROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 6, Read more >> |
