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Mobile system helps caregivers follow childcare protocols in rural Tanzania
Health authorities in Tanzania are embracing smartphones, PDAs and even basic mobile phones to follow international disease-management protocols for young children in hopes of breaking a decades-long... Read more...
HIMSS10: Infrastructure planning breeds success in mobile healthcare
Wireless technology is everywhere, including in hospitals and clinics. It can liberate users, but it also can slow down workflow and expose organizations to data breaches. At a Tuesday breakfast... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Differences between e-health and m-health
Wondering what the difference is between e-health and mobile health? Kaiser Permanente gadget guru Dr. Ted Eytan (officially medical director for delivery systems operations improvement for the... Read more...
Mobile apps popular at the point of care, but there's plenty more to come
Smartphones are so popular in medicine now that some health professionals "don't know how colleagues manage without them," C. Peter Waegemann, vice president of development for the Boston-based... Read more...
White House kicks off national text campaign for prenatal care
Mobile phones are showing their reach with the text-for-charity efforts that have raised millions of dollars, $10 at a time, for Haiti earthquake relief. Now, the Obama administration and some health... Read more...
iPad 'commandments': 'Mobile, capable and handy' device could be a breakthrough
Apple's new iPad hasn't even hit the market yet, but people already are making big plans to use the portable device in healthcare. Mobile physician Dr. Blaine Warkentine and "e-futurist" Doug... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: NLM launches Mobile MedlinePlus
The National Library of Medicine has unveiled a mobile version of MedlinePlus, one of the most popular sites on the Internet for professional and consumer health information. Available in English or... Read more...
Investor conference highlights personal medication compliance
Some emerging technology companies are banking on remote monitoring, mobile access to information and telemedicine to drive the consumer healthcare revolution we've been waiting, oh, about a decade... Read more...
U.S. global AIDS relief program teams up with mobile alliance
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, commonly known as PEPFAR, has become a founding partner of a global alliance for mobile health. At last week's inaugural mHealth Summit 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...
