Category: mHealth

More and more Americans are keen on the idea of using mobile devices to better monitor their health, according to new survey findings released Tuesday. The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive and HealthDay, revealed that one-third of Internet-using adults expressed interest in using smartphones or tablets to make doctors appointments, receive medical test results of…

Healthcare providers are taking telemedicine to new heights, with the market seeing growth of a whopping 237 percent within a five-year period, according to a new Kalorama report. Officials say the telemedicine patient monitoring market grew from $4.2 billion in 2007 to more than $10 billion in 2012. According to the report, the market itself…

The GSMA today published research that demonstrates the significant socio-economic impact that mHealth adoption will have in Europe. Findings reveal that mHealth could save almost €100 billion in healthcare costs in the EU by 2017 as well as add €93 billion in GDP. …read more Source: mHealth adoption to have socio-economic impact in Europe, reveals…

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Installs Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems. Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center (Brookhaven, N.Y.) recently installed two CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems to help enhance patient care. Read more: Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Installs Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems

From Milk Crates To Mobile IT: Hospice Improves Access To Patient Records On The Go. Employees on the go know that handling documents in the field can be a difficult task – and perhaps no workforce knows this better than hospice caregivers. Hospice workers are road warriors who are constantly on the go to see…

PinnacleHealth Achieves Faster Response And Quieter Environment With Mobile Device Alerting. This Amcom Software case study takes a look at PinnacleHealth System as they wanted to change their bed management and patient discharge process to increase staff efficiency and improve the patient experience. They also wanted to increase staff communications for patients on ventilators, particularly…

Heritage Provider Network, Others Announce mHealth Competition. Heritage Provider Network, a Northridge, Calif.-based integrated physicians group, is teaming with University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Open mHealth, a non-profit startup aimed at creating open software architecture for mobile health (mHealth) applications, for a contest that will encourage teams to create mHealth applications. The…