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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...
Wi-Fi helps PA hospital get RFID in place quickly
York (PA) Hospital, a 580-bed teaching facility that's part of the WellSpan Health organization, has implemented RFID asset tracking in its emergency, biomedical engineering and transportation... Read more...
Wi-Fi healthcare market to soar in next five years
The global market for Wi-Fi-enabled healthcare products will grow by 70 percent over the next five years, to an estimated $4.9 billion in 2014, a new report says. "The strong uptake of Wi-Fi in the... Read more...
Are wireless security concerns real, or just paranoia?
With all the breathless talk about the potential for wireless health IT, don't forget about the elephant in the room. This pachyderm goes by the name of Security. With "unlicensed" technology like... Read more...
KS clinic gets mobile VPN
A mobile virtual private network helps physicians, nurses and other staff at Wichita Clinic stay connected to the organizations servers even when they temporarily move out of Wi-Fi or even cellular... Read more...
Nortel puts its own mobile technology to work for in-house clinic
It only makes sense that a telecommunications and technology firm would want to put some of its own products to work in an effort to improve care and, naturally, hold down health costs for its... Read more...
Providers, vendors alike bullish on wireless patient monitoring
Healthcare providers and technology firms are bullish on a new generation of remote patient monitoring devices and new applications of existing technologies, according to an article in the Dallas... Read more...
