February 16, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
Last year, HIMSS became an organizing partner for the mHealth Summit, a three-day event in Washington D.C. that attracted a wide range of academics, providers and entrepreneurs interested in the mobile healthcare landscape. Officials of the Chicago-based organization must have liked what they saw -- they now own the event.

February 14, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
The Office of the National Coordinator has announced a new innovation challenge -- this one aimed at improving access to medical records for people with disabilities.

February 6, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016, according to a new report on the mHealth sector from Juniper Research.

February 6, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Peace Corps plans to acquire a comprehensive electronic health records system to serve its volunteers stationed in 77 developing countries.

February 1, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
A new study from Spyglass Consulting Group finds that 80 percent of physicians believe the iPad has a promising future in healthcare -- but they're skeptical that it's yet ready to transform patient care delivery.

January 5, 2012 | White Papers
The healthcare environment naturally lends itself to wireless networking, given the inherently mobile nature of physicians, nurses, orderlies, and others who move from beds to examining rooms, ministering to patients. This paper looks at how healthcare providers are using wireless LANs creatively to improve patient care and to realize much-needed cost efficiencies. It also discusses the primary challenges health organizations face in their deployments and offers up solutions for successfully addressing them.

January 5, 2012 | White Papers
Despite being identified as an essential tool to support quality care initiatives, improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, EMR and EHR systems have been stuck in a slow growth cycle. However, pressure is quickly mounting on caregivers to adopt and demonstrate meaningful use of EMR/EHR technology. Healthcare Informatics Research recently interviewed nearly 500 healthcare organizations to shed light on the current state of EMR/EHR adoption. Download this report to discover how organizations are overcoming obstacles to adoption, how they're benefitting from EMR/EHR solutions, and where the industry is going next.

January 5, 2012 | White Papers
The move from paper-based medical records systems to electronic medical records (EMR) technology is improving patient outcomes, increasing clinician productivity, and lowering costs. However, access to patient information must not only be secure, but also fast, convenient and reliable. Technologies that provide security but frustrate clinicians will slow EMR adoption to a crawl. In this white paper, you’ll learn how you can solve this “last mile” problem and maximize user adoption by providing fast, convenient, secure access to EMR data across multiple clients, where and when the clinician requests it.

January 3, 2012 | White Papers
With emerging capabilities far beyond phone calls, email, and even access to medical apps, smartphones have kicked off a communications revolution. Given this changing environment, we assembled a roundtable of industry and technology experts to compile this list of what 2012 will mean for smartphone use in hospitals. Download white paper report now.

November 23, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Driven by a history of innovation, Intel is focusing its game-changing technologies on transforming healthcare to enable connected, coordinated, cost-effective care based on each person's health goals and history, enhancing prevention, focusing treatment, and improving outcomes.

February 17, 2012 | Christina Thielst
The executive summary of the HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey report had a somewhat alarming statistic -- only 38% of respondents noted that they have a mobile technology policy in place that regulates use of mobile devices and outlines the organization's mobile strategy.

February 8, 2012 | Katie Matlack
The iPhone and iPad are changing the world of medical devices as we know it. Thanks to their familiar interface, Web connectivity, and powerful processing capabilities, with the right app and plug-in these iOS devices can work as super smart medical devices that make sharing as easy as the push of a touchscreen button.

February 2, 2012 | Christina Thielst
Mobile Health (mHealth) also involves managing the mobile workforce, but I don't often hear this administrative function being discussed.

January 20, 2012 | Jennifer Dennard
The phrase “Technology Saves Lives” seems pretty straightforward when you first read it. “Well, yes,” you might say. “Technology sure does save lives!” But when you read more than 400 real-life stories about just how technology does that, the phrase takes on a whole new level of importance.

January 12, 2012 | John Moore
Admittedly, our predictions for 2011 were modest. So for 2012, we’ll go out on a limb with many of our predictions. Hopefully that limb won’t crack sending us crashing to the ground.

January 23, 2012 | Industry News Release
MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) ("MMR"), a leading provider of Personal Health Records ("PHR"), MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals, today announced that it will debut its MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record and Emergency View portals as custom mobile and tablet apps for Android devices at the upcoming HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, February 20-24, in booth 2062 www.himssconference.org. The announcement comes just after the Company introduced its telemedicine portal this month with Alcatel-Lucent's ng Connect at the Consumer Electronics Show.

January 5, 2012 | Industry News Release
Cegedim Relationship Management, the leading global provider of Life Sciences-specific Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, today announced that Effik Spain is seamlessly deploying Mobile Intelligence™ for iPad™ via Software as a Service (SaaS) for its Specialty Care team. Effik Spain is a vital division of the European leader of gynecological care committed to delivering better patient outcomes and expanding its innovation within the therapeutic areas of contraception and pregnancy nutrition. The company will also implement Cegedim Relationship Management’s OneKey™, the world-leading healthcare professional (HCP) database, and insightful Mobile Intelligence Analytics.

January 3, 2012 | Industry News Release
Techs Loanstar, Inc. (OTCQB: TCLN) (PINKSHEETS: TCLN) and Quture, Inc. ("Quture") announces preparation to launch its new clinical performance and outcomes measurement tool in a cloud version running on the InterSystems platform. Quture's new "transformative" and "disruptive" science and technology will introduce electronic performance measurement to empower hospitals and surgery centers to measure clinical performance on the InterSystems Corporation (www.InterSystems.com) technology platform. This new cloud product version allows rural and smaller hospitals and medical centers to be able to afford this remarkable technology on an affordable pricing and subscription licensing structure.

December 8, 2011 | Healthcare IT News Staff
Mobile Aspects has announced the release of its new clinical supply automation system “iRIS Touch”. iRIS Touch adds a user friendly & cost effective barcode based option to Mobile Aspects existing “iRIS” (Intelligent Radio-frequency Information System) product line. The system is ideally designed to manage lower cost supplies found in the clinical areas of the hospital & as a compliment to Mobile Aspects existing passive RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) supply, tissue & endoscope tracking solutions.

December 7, 2011 | Industry News Release
Continua Health Alliance, an international not-for-profit organization of healthcare and technology companies dedicated to establishing guidelines for combining and applying existing standards to create interoperable personal connected health products and services, commends Qualcomm Life Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, on the creation of its new 2net™ Platform, introduced to potential customers this week at the mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C.