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PR exec: Don't ignore mobile in healthcare marketing plans
Don't ignore mobile platforms when developing a healthcare marketing plan or, in the case of regulated products, for safety monitoring and regulatory compliance, says one marketing and... Read more...
Schools receive RWJF grants to develop mobile apps for chronic disease
Three California universities have received research grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study methods of capturing "patient observations of daily living" on mobile and wireless devices... Read more...
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...
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...
HIMSS10: Fundamental, social changes needed to integrate mobile apps into healthcare
While mobile applications are rapidly multiplying in the field of healthcare, Shriner's Hospitals for Children CMIO Dr. William Bria believes that full integration of wireless applications won't be... Read more...
Epocrates app now available for Google's Android
With Epocrates' announcement last week that it launched a Beta version of its software for Google's Android, this means that the company--which supplies information and decision support tools to... 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...
Study: Smartphones, PDAs just as good as 'secondary' monitors for reading images
It's not a pipe dream to say smartphones, PDAs and other handheld devices like iPod Touch could soon become indispensable tools for emergency radiology teleconsultation. In fact, now there is some... Read more...
Vendors keep pushing phone-based PHRs, but do patients care?
Attendees at the Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference in May 2008 were told that some 10 million Americans would be storing and controlling personal health records on mobile phones... 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...
