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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...
Mobile public-health surveillance app passes 1,000 users
In keeping with the international theme of this issue, we learn from the World Health Organization that EpiSurveyor, a free program for personal digital assistants and mobile phones that aids in... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Could phone radiation fight Alzheimer's?
We generally don't get into the actual medical side of healthcare and don't pay much attention to clinical trials, but this one merits mentioning. After all the recent speculation about whether... Read more...
Army pilots text messaging to manage health of wounded vets
The U.S. Army is piloting a telehealth program to monitor seriously wounded veterans via cell phones in an effort to increase contact with case managers and perhaps ease their recovery. The program,... Read more...
TEDMED highlights innovations in mobile health as experts predict the stethoscope's demise
The more we hear about the revived TEDMED conference, the more we wish we had gone to the San Diego area last week to cover it--and not just because it took place in the historic Hotel del Coronado.... Read more...
MIT course leads to innovative mobile health applications
In the short time FierceMobileHealthcare has been around, we've written plenty about the potential for basic cell phones to improve healthcare in developing countries that lack the resources of the... Read more...
Exclusive: Entrepreneur Hau combines digital ink and wireless technology to speed data capture
The founder of a pioneering handheld computing software company has started another company, this time harnessing the concept of digital ink to create a high-tech, wireless version of the physician... Read more...
Wireless health researcher: Mobile connectivity will transform care
We here at Fierce have been saying it for some time: Most of the noise around healthcare reform is related to cost and access, while the innovations that could really fix the system are seemingly... Read more...
Telecoms excited about, wary of healthcare industry
The slow but accelerating uptake of IT in healthcare, plus an aging population that's looking for more in-home care, are drawing intense interest from telecommunications firms. But, as with so many... Read more...
