remote diagnoses news from FierceMobileHealthcare
NewsiPad could bridge gap between home PACS, smartphone
With a meeting as large as the one the Radiological Society of North America puts on each year, we had a feeling that there would be a follow-up to last week's story about the iPad's utility as a Read more...
DoD telehealth center releases app for mental health; BlackBerry PlayBook SDK features imaging app;
> The National Center for Telehealth and Technology, one of the military's Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, has developed a free smartphone app Read more...
Physician studying diagnoses from phone-generated photos
Thank you, Washington Post for saying something we've been trying to emphasize at FierceMobileHealthcare since we started publishing nearly a year and a half ago: "'Mobile health' does not mean a Read more...
Telemedicine, remote monitoring aid care aboard offshore oil rigs
The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 and set off one of the worst environmental disasters in history is an extreme case, but workers on even the safest of offshore rigs are Read more...
Boeing challenges GE, IBM, Philips over wireless spectrum for patient monitoring
The high hopes that some medical device makers have for wireless patient monitoring technologies may get grounded--if aerospace giant Boeing gets its way. As General Electric, IBM, Royal Philips Read more...
U.S. Army tests telemedicine at remote outposts in Germany
The U.S. Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany serves as kind of a hub for care for American service personnel in Europe and often is the destination of choice for wounded warriors Read more...
Study: iPhone image quality adequate for diagnosing appendicitis
Screen resolution of smartphones, particularly Apple's iPhone, has gotten so good that handsets are now suitable for making quick, preliminary diagnoses of acute appendicitis, a new study suggests. Read more...
Cough into a phone, get a diagnosis
Now this is cool: Cough into your mobile phone and get a diagnosis of the common cold, flu, pneumonia or some other respiratory ailment. No extra hardware needed. How? Because the sound of a cough Read more...
Wireless video link saves newborn from costly, risky transport
A pediatric cardiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., is said to be the first to deliver a remote, real-time diagnosis of a newborn Read more...
Canadian province tests remote ICU monitoring with phone, video, data links
Remote ICU monitoring has been around for several years to provide round-the-clock virtual coverage of critical care patients at facilities that can't afford to have intensivists on duty at all Read more...
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