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Global market for handheld healthcare devices to grow 7 percent this year
The global market for handheld mobile devices in healthcare is forecast to grow 7 percent this year to $8.8 billion, compared to $8.2 billion in 2009, partially spurred by the American Recovery and... Read more...
New Cius tablet takes on Apple's iPad
Many people thought the iPhone was going to shake up mobile healthcare until Google's Android operating system came along. The same could happen for larger devices, too. Though Apple has sold more... Read more...
Epic developing iPad app as hospitals wrestle with how to deploy Apple's tablet
After releasing an iPhone app called Haiku earlier this year, privately held EMR vendor Epic Systems is developing Canto, a native app for the iPad, CMIO reports. And clinical leaders at Tampa... Read more...
iPad positives seem to outweigh the drawbacks for healthcare
Overwhelmingly strong iPad sales in the U.S. have prompted Apple to delay the product's introduction in foreign markets, but that hasn't stopped health IT reporters in other countries from licking... Read more...
New Moby MED tablet looks to challenge iPad in healthcare
Some of the most common criticisms of Apple's new iPad are that it lacks a camera, doesn't support Flash technology and that the memory is not expandable. A new product from Santa Clara, Calif.-based... Read more...
iPad 'commandments': 'Mobile, capable and handy' device could be a breakthrough
Apple's new iPad hasn't even hit the market yet, but people already are making big plans to use the portable device in healthcare. Mobile physician Dr. Blaine Warkentine and "e-futurist" Doug... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Tablet PCs can be an interim step to a full kiosk deployment
Kiosks may have a bright future as a revenue-collection device in doctor's offices and hospital departments, but it's hard to realize their true value unless they are backed by tightly integrated... Read more...
Apple said to be targeting hospitals with Mac tablet
In recent months, Apple has been rumored to be developing a tablet-style computer that would marry the sleek functionality of the iPhone with, well, the sleek functionality of a MacBook. Now we get... Read more...
Pfizer arms sales reps with tablet PCs to track physician detailing
Always looking to stay one step ahead of those that wish to stop aggressive pharmaceutical marketing, Pfizer has started equipping its legions of sales reps with tablet PCs to help them stay on... Read more...
Apple, Epic Systems teaming up on mobile EHR trial at Stanford
We'd heard the rumors that Apple was working to take advantage of the fact that so many physicians have spent their own money on iPhones. We knew that Apple had convened a meeting among a number of... Read more...
