Within the healthcare chapter of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, which the agency published this morning, the FCC recommended that it work together with the FDA to clarify regulatory requirements and the approval processes for converged communications and health care…
“The iPhone has created a new direction for our company,” Mark Cain, CTO, MIMvista said in June 2008. “We have taken a complex desktop application removed it from the realm of black art and placed it in the hands of…
During the HIMSS event in Atlanta last week MobiHealthNews made some news of our own when we launched our first research report: MobiHealthNews Presents: The World of Health and Medical Apps. During the six weeks leading up to HIMSS, the…
Manhattan Research’s metrics around physician uptake of smartphones have become industry standard: According to their last report, more than two-thirds of physicians are using smartphones today and by 2012 some 81 percent will be using smartphones devices. Manhattan compiled a…
Here’s today’s snapshot of the currently most popular, top selling apps in the AppStore’s “medical category” of apps. This list is, for the most part, targeting healthcare professionals much more so than the apps in our last round up. Interesting…
$163M for telehealth in 2011: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has proposed an increase to its home telehealth budget program: For 2009 it was $72 million and the agency wants to bump it up to $163 million for 2011,…
As we have noted with previous “top iPhone medical apps” roundups, the headline of this post is a bit tongue-in-cheek, because this list will change very quickly — tomorrow a new crop of apps will likely unseat today’s most popular…
The devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this year has spurred a number of telemedicine and wireless health companies to commit their services and donate equipment to the relief efforts in the country. We previously reported on a consortium of remote…
AT&T Industry Solutions Practice Manager for Healthcare John Hamilton and Senior Healthcare Marketing Manager for Mobility Product Management Tammi DeVore provided details on hospital wide launches of iPhones at four care facilities in North America: Doylestown Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center;…
During his keynote this morning at the mHI event in Washington D.C., the FCC’s Digital Healthcare Director Dr. Mohit Kaushal pointed to Haiti earthquake survivor Dan Woolley’s use of an iPhone first aid application to treat his own compound fractured leg…
