Mark Blatt, MD from Intel Health walks you through mobile point of care device selection and shares how to choose the right mobile device for collaborative workflow applications, like video conferencing. In a recent study, More than 50 percent of physicians use a smartphone for work purposes, according to a new study by IT industry association CompTIA. CompTIA’s “Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities” study consisted of online surveys of 350 doctors, dentists and other
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Thought Leadership: Mobile Applications In Healthcare
Mobile Applications in Healthcare: Reaching Out to Patients to Improve Care
by Colin Konschak, MBA, FHIMSS and Ram Davaloor, MS, MBA
One in five mobile phone owners today owns a smartphone, a trend that is on the rise as consumers increasingly use these devices as handheld computers. Not surprisingly the number of consumer smartphone applications (apps) that were downloaded went from 300 million in 2009 to five billion in 2010. With mobile devices outnumbering personal computers, we
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Catholic Healthcare West inks $4.3M deal with AirStrip
Catholic West, the fifth largest heath system in the US announced today that they have inked a $4.3 million 3 year deal with AirStrip Technologies to use their AirstripOB applications at 32 of it's hospital systems that have birthing facilities. Currently, AirStrip has piloted Airstrip at two of it's California hospitals, Mercy Medical Center and Sequoia Hospital.
AirStrip OB Overview
The AirStrip OB app gives physicians mobile access to vital patient data in waveform
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Infographic: App Overload for Doctors
Infographic that displays how many apps doctors download creating app overload for doctors
With smartphones and apps quickly gaining popularity in healthcare, there are now thousands of medical apps available in the app store – making it tough for doctors to find the ones they need most for treating patients. To illustrate this app overload challenge faced by doctors today, Epocrates conducted research on this and created an infographic looking at the numbers – how many apps doctors download,
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GE Healthcare Launches Centricity Advance – Mobile
GE Healthcare today announced the release of Centricity* Advance-Mobile, a native Applie iPad application that is specifically designed for primary care physicians in small practices. Clinicians who will use the complete web based EMR and practice management system won't be tied to their desktop, but can walk freely utilizing their iPad with the ability to interact with their patients and patient record. The mobile application will allow immediate response to patient requests, such as
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Specialty Article: Growing Pains: Medical Device Interoperability
Both provider organizations and medical device vendors have made significant, if slow-going, progress over the last several years to network their digitally-enabled medical devices. Recent strides in both the regulatory and standards arenas have provided renewed impetus on the part of both stakeholder groups to bring more interoperability to disparate medical devices, resulting in better security and quality of patient data.As healthcare providers continue their steady march toward implementing
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Mobile Application Spotlight: HP tests its new Mobile Health Monitoring Solution in Singapore
Link mobile health monitoring devices with cloud computing in the right way and you can change how we practice medicine. That's the vision behind HP's Mobile Health (mHealth) Monitoring Solution, a new, always-on, cloud-based healthcare offering that builds on research conducted at HP's Data Center Design for Cloud Computing Lab in Singapore.In a joint effort between HP in Singapore, telecommunications giant SingTel, medical device maker HealthSTATS and Singaporean health provider Frontier
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Mobile App Spotlight: AbbaDox Rad: DICOM Image Viewer for the iPad
AbbaDox Rad is a DICOM image viewing app for the iPad designed to provide radiologists and imaging centers with the ability to share diagnostic images with their referring physicians conveniently, securely and without the need to install and maintain mini-PACS workstations and VPNs on their premises.AbbaDox Rad features include:Synchronized scrolling between images using reference lines to automatically show equivalent positioning in relation to each serieView images from multiple studiesFull
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Harvard, Boston Children’s open $5,000 app challenge to free EHR data
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School this week opened a previously announced competition to develop “iPhone-like” applications to help unlock data stored in electronic health records. While the focus is on Web apps, the federally funded contest is encouraging submissions for mobile tablets, with a promise of “further optimization for smaller screens” such as smartphones by summer.
Children’s and Harvard will award $5,000 for the best application in June and
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Mobile Application Spotlight: Physician Praise for Care360 HD for the iPad
Physicians are going mobile with Care360™ HD For the iPad. Praise is in for the Care360 native iPad app's intuitive interface, navigation ease, and support of patient engagement. Care360™ HD reinterprets the highly acclaimed iPhone app for the iPad. Physicians, now you can take your office wherever you go. Log onto your virtual desk to view and take action on lab results, prescription requests and, view all of your patient charts.
Care360 HD reinterprets the highly acclaimed iPhone app for
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