With domestic sales of related wireless devices, mobile apps and consumer services set to hit $600 million this year--and possibly surpass the $1.3 billion mark in 2011--tech giants like Qualcomm and AT&T are looking to healthcare for their piece of the consumers-on-the-go-and-at-home action. Read »

Is the push to go paperless driving healthcare's adoption of smarter Wi-Fi technologies? Well, yes--that plus the industry's increasing demand for more reliable wireless networks that deliver solid, wide-area coverage to support the kinds of devices, services and apps that are key to higher quality patient care delivery and increased patient and staff satisfaction. Read »

Now that all eight of Lincoln, Nebraska’s Fire and Rescue ambulances are equipped with wireless technologies, local physicians are much better prepared to receive heart attack patients. Read »

New research from ABI indicates the uptake of Wi-Fi within healthcare has spiked 60 percent over the past 12 months in both wireless LAN and Wi-Fi RTLS deployments. Better yet, the research suggests this trend may continue with high double-digit growth, at least for the medium term. Read »

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. Read »

Last year, a team of engineers in Oulu, Finland set out to create an open-source mobile device platform for the OEM/ODM market. Now, the company they formed--Aava Mobile--has rolled out Virta Android, a hardware-enhanced software developer kit (h-SDK) for Android developers who want to write apps for smartphones and tablets running the newest Intel Atom Z6xx Series processors. Given the sheer volume of mobile apps available for healthcare's Blackberry and iPhone users, the arrival of this h-SDK could be significant as competition among devices makers continues to grow. Read »

Wireless transmitters that send data from patients’ implanted cardiac devices to physicians are becoming more prevalent, even if the device makers seem set on keeping such transmissions within their own families of devices. Read »

A new wireless technology is being touted as the missing link needed to join patients, providers and the health IT that promises to transform healthcare across the globe. Read »

The ZigBee Alliance, an ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions, has ratified ZigBee Health Care. The new global, open standard for interoperable, low-power wireless devices promises to enable secure monitoring and management of noncritical, low-acuity healthcare services targeted at chronic disease management, elderly care, wellness, in-patient and asset tracking. Read »

Back in December, I wrote about how technology companies were looking to wireless devices as a way to advance the remote monitoring of healthcare. One of the companies with its sights set on the industry’s future was Qualcomm, which has been steadily chugging along with its Wireless Health Program. Read »