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Indian 'health city' banks on Smart Wi-Fi
Date: Jun 23, 2010
SevenHills Hospital is standardizing on the Ruckus ZoneFlex 802.11n Smart WLAN system across its sprawling 17-acre campus in the heart of Mumbai, India. The technology is designed to leverage intelligent antenna arrays and dynamic beamforming technologies to automatically form and direct wireless transmissions over performing signal paths, away from interference.
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Toshiba's new mobile device a match for healthcare?
Date: Jun 22, 2010
Twenty-five years after rolling out its first laptop, Toshiba is looking to make a splash with the launch of the Libretto W100 ultra-mobile PC, a new device that hovers somewhere between a tiny notebook and a Kindle. Featuring dual 7-inch, diagonal multi-touch screens that work either horizontally or vertically, the Libretto packs in a fair amount of functionality--but I'm not convinced it's the best fit for healthcare, given the selection of other devices already in play.
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Big RTLS plans at UMMC
Date: Jun 18, 2010
The only academic health science center in the state of Mississippi is undertaking a massive real-time location effort that will automatically track and manage over 6,000 hospital assets throughout its 1.9 million square foot facility.
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One small step towards better patient data security?
Date: Jun 17, 2010
Concerns over the safety of patient information may lessen as Symantec and others chart their course into the mobile data security space. Symantec, for example, just rolled out a new version of its anti-virus software for Android smartphones. While viruses may not top the list of concerns that healthcare professionals and health care consumers associate with threats to patient data security, Symantec's move in this direction could prove an important first step in improving mHealth security overall.
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D.C. hospitals look to cell phones to boost diabetic patient outcomes
Date: Jun 16, 2010
George Washington University Hospital and Howard University Hospital are tapping grant funds to develop a program that will use mobile devices to track and manage high-risk Medicaid diabetes patients. The two D.C.-area hospitals have partnered with Fort Wayne, Ind.-based NoMoreClipboard.com to leverage the company's personal health record (PHR) integrated with a cell phone to help diabetic patients improve outcomes and reduce costs.
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Healthcare revisits tablets
Date: Jun 15, 2010
Healthcare IT professionals who went gun-shy after early efforts to roll out tablet PCs in hospital settings failed are starting to come around again. No longer unwieldy, heavy devices with short battery lives, tablets are once again being weighed as a perfect bridge device for healthcare, joining the convenience of smartphones with the display area of a laptop--and it looks like the device leading the charge is none other than Apple's iPad.
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Building the mHealth Mesh
Date: Jun 14, 2010
The Federal agency tasked in bringing telecommunications to rural America is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Its June 7, 2010 Round One Awards Report, Connecting Rural America, summarized the state of the projects (68 funded thus far) of the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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Beefing up hospital tracking efforts
Date: Jun 11, 2010
Equipment tracking remains a top of mind concern at healthcare organizations. But Cook Children’s Medical Center is taking it a step further, implementing a tracking system to monitor medical equipment throughout its Ft. Worth, Texas facility while at the same time exploring how mobile technology can help cut down on needless wandering around the hospital by staff members.
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Will consumers self-manage their healthcare?
Date: Jun 10, 2010
Healthrageous, a Boston area personalized health technology company, plans to funnel $6 million of newly acquired VC funding into the commercialization of a health technology platform that provides interactive self-management tools aimed at helping individuals shed unhealthy habits, improve adherence to medical advice and embrace healthy lifestyles.
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Indian vendor tackles mobile ECG
Date: Jun 09, 2010
Great things happen in places where greatness is required. When it comes to telemedicine, expect India to stand out on the adoption, deployment and product and service development front. Case in point: Indian healthcare equipment vendor Maestros Mediline Systems Limited, which recently launched a mobile ECG application that lets doctors receive patients' real-time heart data from their Blackberrys over the Vodafone network.
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Recent Posts
RFID system finds support
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
