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NewsHealthcare Wi-Fi industry to hit $1.3B by 2016
If you haven't upgraded your Wi-Fi network in a while, you may be falling behind your competitors. Healthcare use of mobile devices is driving explosive growth in Wi-Fi investment around the country, Read more...
EMTs turn ambulances into wi-fi hot spots
Emergency medical technicians in Montgomery County, Tenn., are using the onBoard Mobile Gateway to obtain wireless connectivity for sending cardiac monitoring data back to the hospital during Read more...
Smartphone-based ultrasound awaits FDA clearance
One of the developers of a prototype ultrasound probe that connects to a smartphone is involved in a startup company that could bring the phone-based ultrasound to market next year if the FDA grants Read more...
Wireless, mobile products in short supply at massive Medica show
The massive Radiological Society of North America is underway in Chicago now--without your Chicago-based editor, who's not back from Thanksgiving travels yet--but the 60,000 people who visit that Read more...
Hospital consolidates med-surg nursing communications on iPhones
Remember "unified communication," the buzzword from earlier this year that described the consolidation of communication services onto a single device? The phrase may not have caught on like some were Read more...
Hospital looking at 'TV white spaces' to go wireless
If a low-density community isn't already blanketed with fiber optics for high-speed Internet and other advanced telecommunications services, it might make sense to do what so many developing 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...
VA mobile gets boost from House panel, advances plans for patient Wi-Fi
Wireless and mobile technology represent "the new frontier in health innovations," as well as a great way of increasing access to care for millions of veterans, Rep. Michael F. Michaud (D-Maine) said Read more...
RTLS necessitates proper infrastructure planning
Real-time location systems, like other forms of RFID technology, are great for keeping tabs on the types of high-value assets that hospitals buy in bulk. Think computers-on-wheels, diagnostic devices Read more...
Inventor discusses the future of emergency mobile telemedicine
In our "Also Noted" section today, we mention some new telemedicine breakthroughs from medical inventor R. Lee Heath, the same person who developed the technology that underlies the automatic Read more...
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