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NewsWill AT&T, Verizon and Sprint dominate the mHealth market?
An intriguing view of the mHealth market's future emerged from E-Commerce Times columnist Jeff Kagan last week. He sees the Big Three telecom giants--AT&T, Verizon and Sprint--becoming major Read more...
CSC: Wireless technologies, robots will transform care
Mobile and wireless technologies dominate a Computer Sciences Corp. list of six technologies that show promise for improving patient care and making a better working environment for clinicians, 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...
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...
Video 'telecaregivers' keep seniors in their homes longer
Cell phones are ubiquitous. Plenty of American homes have high-speed Internet and wireless networks. And the population is aging. Take those factors together and it's no surprise that home patient Read more...
'Most Wireless' hospitals improve data collection and access, reduce patient movement
A truer statement may never have been written about health IT: "electronically delivered patient information is only as useful as its capacity to be used." That line is from a Hospitals & Health Read more...
Alabama firms team to develop wireless hand-washing monitoring system
Two Alabama companies are teaming up to develop an RFID system that will monitor hand washing in healthcare environments. Proventix Systems, headquartered in Birmingham, will pair its nGage employee 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...
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