A little over a year ago, I wrote how Voalté, which competes with Ascom, Cisco and others, wants to be the central communications engine--or traffic cop--on your healthcare organization's iPhone. This year at HIMSS, the Sarasota, Fla.-based developer of point-of-care communication technology plans to make its Voalté One solution available to Blackberry users, too. Read »

I'm a transplant to Tennessee from the Twin Cities of Minnesota and like many other folks I've thought about Nashville's role as Music City USA. But getting to know the home of HCA and its 150 plus inspired/related firms over these past two decades has made me take notice of some interesting Nashville-centric healthcare facts. Read »

With a recent Manhattan Research report claiming 81 percent of physicians will own smartphones by 2012, the race is on to develop mobile applications and customized content aimed at physicians and allied health professionals. Most recently, two companies with a track record for providing and distributing medical content have teamed up to produce new health-based apps. The idea is leverage HealthDay's content and Complemedia's MedicinePhone platform to provide clients across a variety of health fields the opportunity to develop their own branded smartphone applications, which can target specific information and news to medical and health professionals. Read »

It's been a busy couple weeks for anyone in healthcare who's been trying to keep up with the latest and greatest smartphone offerings. New devices were launched by Verizon Wireless and Motorola, as well as Vocera, while Blackberry seized the opportunity to roll out an enhanced Storm offering. Read »

Imagine if you could access billing or revenue cycle management data from your iPhone. Well, NetSuite--which offers ERP and CRM as a hosted service, and already provides mobile apps for the Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices--has launched a new, free iPhone app that promises users mobile access to financial data. The release delivers to market what company officials are touting as the first cloud computing mobile enterprise resource planning app available in Apple's App Store. Read »

Verizon is targeting enterprise users with a new offering designed to manage multiple mobile devices, usage plans and applications across multiple carriers around the globe. While many large businesses and government offices will likely benefit from such a service bundling, healthcare's increasingly mobile workforces--spurred on by the growing need for mobility at the point of care--might stand to gain the most from the company's new managed mobility solutions. Read »

DataDyne.org, a Washington-based nonprofit, is among the organizations spotlighted in The Wall Street Journal's 2009 Technology Innovation Awards. The company and its co-founder, Joel Selanikio, won in the health IT category for EpiSurveyor, free software for mobile devices designed to help health officials in developing countries collect health information. Read »

A licensing deal between two technology vendors aims to make it easier for health care providers and consumers to access medical information using their smartphones. Under terms of the agreement, Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Health Matrix has engaged GetFugu, located in San Francisco, to deploy its suite of health care solutions through GetFugu's interactive platform. Read »

The advantages of remote patient monitoring continue to drive innovations at the mobile point of care. The latest evidence comes from the University of Houston, where a team of researchers is designing an in-home health-monitoring system that will notify caregivers, via smartphones or PDAs, if their patients need attention. Read »

Nokia and Intel aren’t saying what kind of products could emerge from their newly announced long-term partnership to develop smartphones and other devices that will run on Intel’s microprocessors. But, according to an InformationWeek report, the companies are interested in capitalizing on the convergence of mobile phones and PCs. Read »