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Mayo Clinic, AT&T, Kaiser Permanente, Vodafone, Verizon Wireless: What do they have in common? A stake in wireless health? That’s right. What’s more, they are all also speaking at MobiHealthNews’ second Everywhere Healthcare summit co-located with CTIA Wireless 2010 at the…

Text4Baby, a free mHealth service that “provides timely and expert health information through SMS text messages to pregnant women and new moms through their babies’ first year,” has officially launched today, White House Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra announced…

We have been tracking the soft launch of the White House’s free mobile health service for expectant mothers, Text4baby, since early last year. While the service was planned to launch in the fall of 2009, a recent presentation from the…

The wireless association CTIA put together a series of video interviews and presentations focused on wireless health for their Wonder of Wireless (WoW) series. The wireless health focused segment includes an interview with MedApps, an interview with CTIA President Steve…

According to MobiHealthNews’ year-end report, there were 15 venture capital investments announced during 2009 and 11 of them were for wireless remote patient monitoring start-ups. The remainder included a start-up working on a converged platform for physicians-patient communications, a smartphone app…

“The current U.S. market for wireless, home-based health care applications is $304 million,” CTIA, the Wireless Association, wrote in an official comment to the FCC, which is mulling over the health care delivery elements of a national broadband plan. “That market…

HIStalk interviewed Voxiva Co-Founder, Chairman and President Paul Meyer this week and the result was a sprawling conversation that covered mobile phones’ roles in healthcare today. Of course, the interview also included some discussion about the wireless health service, Text4Baby,…

Best Buy announced today that 40 of its stores in the U.S. have begun offering personal health solutions devices like pedometers, Bluetooth-enabled weight scales and blood pressure monitors.
“New technologies are emerging daily to help people plan, monitor, and enhance…

As part of the CTIA Wireless IT&E event’s focus on wireless health in San Diego earlier this month, CTIA published a number of video and audio interviews with wireless health industry luminaries on their event site today. Among the interviewees:…

More than three-quarters (78 percent) of the U.S. population is “interested” in wireless health services, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, Insignia Health and CTIA that was shared at CTIA IT & E in San Diego last week.…