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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...
Inventor discusses the future of emergency mobile telemedicine
In our "Also Noted" section today, we mention some new telemedicine breakthroughs from medical inventor R. Lee Heath, the same person who developed the technology that underlies the automatic... 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...
Poll: Patients most in need of mobile health are least interested
A week ago, we brought you the news, courtesy of sister publication FierceWireless, about a Harris Interactive poll that found that more than two-thirds of American consumers are intrigued by the... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Consumers and mobile healthcare
The immediate future of mobile healthcare seems to lie in home-based monitoring. A Harris Interactive poll released at last week's CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment symposium indicates that 68... Read more...
Telemedicine finding its way into physician workflows
In a story about telemedicine and mobile healthcare that ran over the weekend, a HealthDay headline boasted: "In Health Care Today, It's Electronic All the Way." That's a rather absurd statement for... Read more...
Report: Consumer wellness devices, apps to spur growth in mobile health
Consumer wellness products, including those that link medical devices to smartphones, will drive the global market for mobile healthcare, a new report says. "We foresee a development where health and... Read more...
Hispanics represent a ripe market for mobile healthcare
The booming Hispanic population is a great, untapped market for so many industries. Count mobile healthcare among them. At least that's the theory of mobile booster Jonathan Spalter, a former... Read more...
After Epocrates and the web, smartphone app needs vary greatly
Knowing full well that one person's "must-have" is another person's waste of time, we present a short rundown from the Medical Smartphones blog of "essential" smartphone apps for med students and... Read more...
Mobile phones continue to push health innovation in Africa, Asia
As we often like to report, much of the innovation in mobile healthcare is coming from overseas, and not just from the usual high-tech suspects, but also from countries considered part of the... Read more...
