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Study: Remote monitoring cuts hospitalization, mortality for heart failure
The expected boom in remote monitoring has been somewhat restrained by the dearth of scientific studies proving that such technologies can save lives and money. Slowly, though, the body of evidence... 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...
Surgeons connect with iPhone 4's FaceTime videoconferencing app
Surprise, surprise! Doctors have already been finding ways to incorporate the new iPhone 4 and its videoconferencing features into their practice of medicine. Well, at least a few intrepid physicians... 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...
Wi-Fi use in healthcare jumps 60 percent since last year, ABI Research says
Just as the Department of Veterans Affairs was revealing plans to install Wi-Fi for patients and visitors in hundreds of facilities, along comes a new report from ABI Research to confirm that Wi-Fi... Read more...
Helmsley Trust donates $8 million to study remote monitoring of seniors
Some 1,600 patients in 40 rural Great Plains towns will test telemedicine and remote sensor technology, thanks to a three-year, $8 million grant by a rural health initiative of the New York-based... Read more...
CompuMed to provide EKG, telemedicine to California schools
Remember when the school nurse could do little more than take temperatures, check for sore throats and patch up playground scrapes? Well, some school infirmaries in California are about to go... Read more...
Telehealth continues rapid growth even as reimbursement lags
As readers of FierceMobileHealthcare know well, telehealth is booming. Telecommunications firms are tripping over each other trying to get a piece of this fast-growing market, and smartphones, of... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Telemed, remote monitoring, robotics and social media for health reform
In a commentary for Hospitals & Health Networks, Dr. Charles J. Shanley, associate CMO for Beaumont Hospitals in Michigan, and David Ellis, corporate director of planning and future studies at... Read more...
Study: Home telehealth, vitals monitoring cuts admissions for heart failure
A home-based interactive telehealth system with motivational support tools built in was able to reduce hospitalization rates by two-thirds, cut inpatient days by nearly three-fourths and... Read more...
