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NewsUK hospital trials iPads on WLAN, but loves wireless asset tracking
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust in London has become the first pediatric hospital in the UK to adopt iPads for e-prescribing and medication management, and currently is running a Read more...
RAND pushes remote care to ease health system demand
Like so many others who follow healthcare, researchers at RAND believe home-based technology, such as remote monitoring devices and telemedicine, have great potential to rein in healthcare costs and Read more...
Funding m-health via 'alpha daughters'
Patient-centered care is one thing. Now how about designing a business model not necessarily around the patient, but around the family caregiver? In this case, call her the "alpha daughter," the Read more...
'Body-to-body' networks could serve healthcare, make Internet more mobile
Researchers at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, are studying how wearable sensors might not only help keep Read more...
Mobile health companies try to follow the money without alienating docs
With mobile healthcare conferences becoming all the rage, we can't be everywhere. Fortunately, Telecoms.com had someone at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit 2010 in London to follow the people Read more...
UK health officials push home monitoring
British health officials are all but banking on mobile and wireless technologies for patient self-monitoring as part of a 20-billion-pound ($31.6 billion) cost-savings plan for the National Health Read more...
CSC, RIM launch 'super app' for UK clinicians on BlackBerry
Computer Sciences Corp. and Research in Motion have teamed up to develop a "super app" that will allow staff in several regions of England's National Health Service to access and update patient data Read more...
UK med school pushes patient safety with iPhones
American medical schools have been doing this for a few years now, but the University of Leeds says it recently became the first in the UK to outfit each of its med students with the iPhone 3G S. Read more...
Wii, iPad-type motion sensors could help stroke patients communicate
British researchers are testing whether motion sensors like those in Nintendo Wii controllers or various touch-screen computers can help treat aphasia, a language impairment related to partial Read more...
iPhone 4's motion detectors open up a new class of medical apps for British doc
What drives a physician to become a smartphone app developer? Often, it's curiosity and a little bit of luck. Such is the case for Dr. Neil Paul, a British general practitioner who's now working on Read more...
| Press ReleasesUnited Surgical Partners to Broadcast Its Second Quarter 2011 Conference Call Live on the Internet on August 2, 2011DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- United Surgical Partners International, Inc. today announced that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its second quarter 2011 earnings conference call on Tuesday, Read more >> Research and Markets: Country Report - United Kingdom Hospital & Healthcare SystemDUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3f1bc0/country_report_u) has announced the addition of the "Country Report - United Kingdom Hospital & Read more >> |
