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NewsVerizon-WellPoint partnership enables virtual chats between patients, nurses
Verizon Wireless and WellPoint this week announced a partnership that will allow members affiliated with the insurance plan to virtually chat with nurse care managers via a 4G LTE mobile device. The Read more...
Verizon Wireless debuts cost-conscious pharmacy app
Verizon Wireless is taking a big step into the mHealth market, and it's a bit of an unusual one. Partnering with its own pharmacy benefits vendor, Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based Medco Health Solutions, Read more...
Patients don't want to pay for remote health monitoring
Old habits--and mindsets--die hard. The attitude of American consumers toward remote health monitoring devices is the same as it is for all kinds of other healthcare products and services: I want it, Read more...
'Verizon vs. AT&T' just as important as 'iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. Android'
Competition in the smartphone market is, well, fierce, and that's just as true in healthcare as in any other industry. And choosing the right phone isn't an easy chore, as we find out in a new post Read more...
Verizon Wireless tests remote health management
Verizon Wireless is joining with BL Healthcare, a Foxboro, Mass., maker of remote health management products, to work with various third-party application developers and some customers in a trial of Read more...
White House kicks off national text campaign for prenatal care
Mobile phones are showing their reach with the text-for-charity efforts that have raised millions of dollars, $10 at a time, for Haiti earthquake relief. Now, the Obama administration and some health Read more...
Vodafone wants in on the mobile healthcare action
We've just received word this morning that Britain's Vodafone Group is starting up a mobile healthcare unit at the beginning of 2010 that will work primarily with pharmaceutical companies and Read more...
CA health organizations look to mobile technologies; NC awards grant to support wireless monitoring;
> Mobile and wireless technologies are central to innovation at Kaiser Permanente and UC-Davis. Article > AmeriChoice, an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group, is donating $290,000 worth of Read more...
Healthcare is a key industry for new Qualcomm-Verizon joint venture
Qualcomm is continuing what looks like an aggressive push into healthcare by forming a joint venture with Verizon Wireless to provide advanced "machine-to-machine" wireless services that might Read more...
| Press ReleasesNonprofits Helping Education, Health Care and Sustainability Benefited From More Than $66 Million in Verizon Foundation Grants iBASKING RIDGE, N.J., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- During two days last July, more than 3,000 people who had no health insurance were able to meet with health care professionals and receive free care Read more >> Flagstaff Medical Center to Use Smart Phones to Extend Care for Heart PatientsFLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC) has enrolled its first patient into a ground breaking new program, Care Beyond Walls and Wires, an initiative that will Read more >> University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Aided by $25,000 Grant From Verizon - Increases Domestic Violence Awareness Efforts tBALTIMORE, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing that domestic violence is a serious social issue that plagues people in all walks of life, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is Read more >> Verizon Wireless COO John Stratton to Deliver Keynote Address at 2011 mHealth SummitOperator of the nation's largest 4G LTE and 3G networks returns as Partnering Sponsor of eventBETHESDA, Md., Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Read more >> Date Announced for Second Annual Health IT Leadership SummitCall Open for Inaugural Intel Innovation Awards ATLANTA, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2011 Health IT Leadership Summit will take place on November 8, 2011, at the Fox Theatre from 8:30 Read more >> |
