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Vendor Notebook - CancerCare of Maine picks Versus for RTLS
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Versus Technology, Inc., the Traverse City, Mich.  Read »

Healthcare industry one of the most mobile
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Healthcare IT workers are among the biggest users of smart phones and other mobile technology, but addressing the security needs of such devices remains a critical concern, according to a survey re  Read »

Campaign to end childhood obesity in search of new apps
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First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday launched the Apps for Healthy Kids competition, the most recent piece of the Let's Move! campaign aimed at ending childhood obesity within a generation.   Read »

Mobile tech key to collecting data on low birth-weight babies
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Researchers at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and UC Irvine will monitor the day-to-day health of low-birth-weight babies and their parents as part of a project designed to combat   Read »

Vendor Notebook - Medicity announces Health 4.0 platform
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Medicity Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new "Health 4.0" platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to  Read »

Next: Handheld healthcare
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Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse took the stage to deliver the opening keynote address of HIMSS10 on Monday morning.  Read »

HIMSS10 in photos: Day one
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With "meaningful use" on the mind of every HIMSS10 attendee, Mark Leavitt, MD, CCHIT chair, presented at an EHR Certification Town Hall.   Read »

Bi-directional mobile software launched for hospitals
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A bi-directional mobile software solution created for hospital systems is being touted as "a giant leap forward for healthcare IT."  Read »

Vendor Notebook - McLaren Medical to implement Allscripts
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Allscripts, of Chicago, has announced that McLaren Medical Group of Flint, Mich. has selected its electronic health record (EHR) for its 150 physicians.  Read »

InnerWireless antennas keep things mobile at VCU
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Today’s hospitals are being designed with mobility in mind, making it essential that physicians and nurses have access to patient data at a moment’s notice from anywhere in the facility.  Read »