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By  Brian Dolan 07:23 am May 12, 2009
MedApps has inked a deal with Microsoft to connect its wireless remote monitoring HealthPAL device with Microsoft's HealthVault personal health record. The deal reinforces HealthVault as a platform for connected device makers and remote monitoring applications to connect to and deposit patients' health information. MedApps will officially connect to HealthVault tomorrow. MedApps describes...
By  Brian Dolan 06:48 am May 8, 2009
Big news for hospitals and other care facilities that are currently using Citrix XenApp infrastructure to deliver Windows applications, but whose staff wants to use iPhones at work too -- Citrix just unveiled the Citrix Receiver for iPhone. Now iPhone and iTouch users can download the Citrix app and access any of their facility's Windows applications, so users can open documents, update reports,...
By  Brian Dolan 11:04 am May 7, 2009
WebMD plans on launching a Medscape iPhone application during the last week of May or in early June, according to a report over at Medical Marketing & Media that cites a WebMD spokesperson. WebMD already has a free iPhone app for symptom navigation. The Medscape app will feature a drug reference database and drug interaction checker along with Medscape's specialty-focused professional news....
By  Brian Dolan 09:04 am May 7, 2009
Cambridge Consultants' wireless medical device interoperability system, Vena is gearing up to unveil a connected asthma inhaler prototype at the Respiratory Drug Delivery Europe event in Portugal this month, according to a report over at MedGadget. The device aims to offer patients a direct link to doctors and online applications to help them improve compliance and improve treatment. As you would...
By  Brian Dolan 07:53 am May 7, 2009
"I think what's missing from a lot of these mobile [health] demos is the patient-doctor interaction," Kaiser Permanente's Ted Eytan said during an interview on the sidelines of the Health 2.0 conference earlier this month. "If my doctor recommended a mobile service and said, 'Hey, I've looked at this and I think it would be useful,' then I'd be more likely to use it." As we have noted in the past...
By  Brian Dolan 09:54 am May 6, 2009
Microsoft's Senior Director of Worldwide Health Bill Crounse just posted an article on his HealthBlog about the Wound Technology Network, which is a nationwide physician network that uses Windows Mobile-based phones for remote wound care. "Every clinician understands the challenges associated with wound care," Crounse writes. "The process is slow, time-consuming, complex, and expensive. Non-...
By  Brian Dolan 07:50 am May 6, 2009
Computerworld recently published a skeptical overview of the wireless medical applications that various hospital groups are adopting. The article included some interesting scoops: CardioNet competitor LifeWatch had about 35,000 patients hooked up to its mobile phone-based heart arrhythmia monitor in 2007 and just 120,000 users now; Methodist Healthcare System is rolling out AirStrip Technologies...
By  Brian Dolan 04:45 am May 4, 2009
Here's our round-up of images from the second day of the American Telemedicine Association event in Las Vegas last week, including speakers panel sessions and some of the mHealth products on display in the exhibit hall.  Lots of dedicated devices -- more companies need to leverage the tools already in the market, like mobile phones. Click here for the photos!
By  Brian Dolan 01:15 pm May 1, 2009
Who will be the early adopters of telemedicine? "My immediate reaction: The geeks will be the first to grab it because they grab everything but that's not a market," Michael Ackerman, assistant director of high performance computing and communications at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health said during the ATA event as moderator Dena Puskin from the HHS Office for the...
By  Brian Dolan 06:35 am May 1, 2009
Who says there's no money to be made in the mHealth industry? Mobile authentication and security company Diversinet reported revenues of more than $2 million for the first quarter this year, including more than $1.6 million from additional customers it acquired through its relationship with AllOne Health.  The extra revenues helped Diversinet swing to a net profit of $182,000 compared to a net...