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Sutter hospital upgrades RFID infant tracker
Medical equipment gets lost within cavernous hospital buildings and, occasionally, so do patients, especially the smallest ones. A California hospital is beefing up security for infant patients by... 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...
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...
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...
MGMA 09: Mobile Clinical Assistant deployed for patient services
Understandably, the IT focus here at the 2009 Medical Group Management Association annual conference in Denver is on EMRs and on the forthcoming conversion to ANSI X12 5010 transactions and ICD-10... Read more...
Florida clinic expands trial of patient mobile computers
A Florida clinic has expanded its trial of mobile touch-screen devices for patients by adding internal medicine to the test that began in March with family medicine, according to an email sent to... Read more...
