The 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C. kicked off with an opening keynote from Eric J. Topol, MD, WWHI and Kathleen Sebelius, US Dept of Health & Human Services. In her key note, Sebellius stated, "in the iTunes store alone, there are nearly 12,000 apps related to health." The video below provides some key highlights of Kathleen Sebelius discussing mHealth and its role in the larger landscape of national healthcare.
300 exhibitors including tech giants and startups lined the
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Video: Mobile Point of Care: Choosing Devices for Collaborative Workflows
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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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 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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Mobile Application Spotlight: Nimble Interactive EMR for the iPad
Nimble from ClearPractice is a comprehensive EMR built specifically for the iPad. Nimble is a native iPad application that takes full advantage of the iPad's user-friendly interface. For the busy physician, this means:
You get all the tools and information you need to deliver optimal patient care on one application on one device in a secure, web-based, HIPAA-compliant environment.
You can do more than just view information—Nimble allows you to act on it in real time with blazing fast
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ICD-10 Android App: Amber ICD-10
If you practice or code in the US, this is the reference you need! Quickly and easily reference and share ICD-10 CM diagnoses by either code or description. Include themes, tagging as favorites, and ability to share reference codes by SMS and email.
Rapidly search, reference and share ICD-10-CM diagnoses by either code or description.
Includes themes, tagging as favorites, and ability to share referenced codes by SMS and email.
Note these are the American
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