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Sprint enters remote health business

The remote patient monitoring space just got a little more crowded. Sprint announced late last week it is launching a new gateway/hub product with veteran home monitoring company Ideal Life, of Read more...

Hospital sends heart failure patients home with smartphones

Flagstaff [Ariz.] Medical Center is testing out a new smartphone/remote monitoring program to keep congestive heart failure patients out of the hospital. The program, "Care Beyond Walls and Wires," Read more...

AliveCor earns $3M in Series A financing

Mobile electrocardiogram developer AliveCor just snagged a huge cash infusion without even having a product on the market. Wireless and telecom company QualComm, along with the Oklahoma Life Science Read more...

X PRIZE, Qualcomm team to find the next great mobile health device

Nonprofit problem-solving organization the X PRIZE Foundation and wireless telecommunications research and development company Qualcomm are looking to the past for ideas about the future of Read more...

Medication adherence improves for patients using Pill Phone app

Mobile health can be effective, at least in prompting patients to take their medication, if the results of a small study--whose findings were presented in Washington, D.C. last week--are any Read more...

Wireless project aims to improve diabetes care on U.S-Mexico border

Like a powerful signal, wireless healthcare innovation in San Diego has spilled across the border to Tijuana, Mexico, to help prevent and treat diabetes. The recently announced Dulce Wireless Tijuana Read more...

Smartphone apps push m-health market, but payment issues persist

It's time for a reality check with a little bit of the type of prognostication that necessitated this reality check. "mHealth solutions have been discussed since the end of the 90s," German mobile Read more...

Transition to a mobile, connected health system bumpy

You don't often see the words "diabetes" and "elegant" in the same sentence--unless, of course, you're talking about smartphones. "If you have diabetes, asthma or heart disease, there's almost Read more...

Qualcomm: We meet with wireless healthcare device makers daily

Qualcomm, the San Diego-based chipmaker for mobile phones, already is a big player in mobile healthcare. And it seems to be getting bigger. "We meet with one medical device company a day," Qualcomm Read more...

Qualcomm, Cambridge Consultants partner on Continua-certified cellular device

Wireless telecommunications equipment maker Qualcomm continues its foray into mobile healthcare by joining with British technology developer Cambridge Consultants to create a standard wireless Read more...

Press Releases

Flagstaff Medical Center to Use Smart Phones to Extend Care for Heart Patients

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC) has enrolled its first patient into a ground breaking new program, Care Beyond Walls and Wires, an initiative that will Read more >>

AirStrip Technologies Announces Home Health Collaboration With Qualcomm Life

Early stage collaboration unveiled at mHealth Summit will move AirStrip mobile monitoring innovation into homes; initial focus placed on Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patientsWASHINGTON, Dec. 6, Read more >>

BodyMedia Plans to Join Qualcomm Life's Wireless Health 2net Ecosystem

Data from BodyMedia's Wearable Body Monitors will be Available to Healthcare Providers through 2net PlatformWASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BodyMedia, the leading developer of wearable body Read more >>

ConversePoint to Create Next Generation Clinician Communication and Collaboration Solution

Reduces Costs of Patient Care and Streamlines Communications of Healthcare ProfessionalsCHICAGO, Aug. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ConversePoint, a privately owned company based in Chicago, has announced Read more >>

Zacks Releases Four Powerful ''Buy'' Stocks: Anixter International, Qualcomm Incorporated, Weight Watchers Int and BlackRock

CHICAGO, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Four free stock picks are being made available today on Zacks.com. The industry's leading independent research firm highlights one Zacks #1 Rank Strong Buy or Read more >>