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Friday Ramblings: Electronic Health Records, Microsoft Courier and Hospital Operations

The majority of you have seen this… but to me it is well-worth having it posted here mostly because of the enormous potential this could have. It is the type of thing that makes you sit back and wonder what it could become… (I am talking about the Microsoft Courier – video [...]

September 25, 2009 Read the full article →

Don’t Ignore the Palm Pre

Perhaps I should write a long article giving you my reasons.  But for now I will simply point you to this small post by Virtuate on Mobile Medical Application Searches.  Or better yet, I can summarize it for you with a quote:
… due to Palm’s history with physicians I think developers and mobile health application [...]

July 10, 2009 Read the full article →

Clinical Care and Mobile Technology

Just posted on this topic at our sister site Virtuate.
To save you time this is my quick conclusion:
“… mobile devices are still being used by physicians as a personal productivity tool and are not  integrated into care giving processes to the extent that real and transformational value have been achieved.”
Which is the case in a [...]

January 7, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Phone Use in Hospitals

As stated here before, healthcare represents an enormous opportunity for mobility. Healthcare workers (on and off campus) are extremely mobile and the returns are also enormous:  from chronic disease management, to critical care, to home health care, to eprescribing to electronic medical records the variety of uses for mobile technology in healthcare do not only [...]

January 6, 2009 Read the full article →

Vodafone Invests in Mobile Health Firm

Slightly off topic and perhaps more related to our neglected sister site – Virtuate… But this item crossed my Google Reader this morning and consider it important enough to share here.
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets.
Vodafone Ventures Ltd, the [...]

December 18, 2008 Read the full article →