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3M launched a new physician dictation application for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices that allows physicians to use a single tool for phone, email and dictation, the company stated in a release. Since the device provides data access through WiFi…

Apple recently announced the top selling apps, songs, games and podcasts from 2009 in an iTunes feature it called iTunes Rewind 2009. Perhaps surprisingly, one medical iPhone app made the list of the top 30 selling iPhone applications in 2009:…

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston has just inked a wireless network boost deal with Verizon Wireless to install and maintain a signal booster in the facility. The system Verizon Wireless will install was built by Molitoris, a distributed antenna…

Personalized Medicine a $232B market? Mobile phones and wireless technology are clear enablers of the growing “personalized medicine” industry — which is set to grow 11 percent annually according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The market is set to grow to $232 billion,…

TelaDoc Medical Services raised $9 million in additional investments to fund its next phase of growth, the company stated in a press release. The investment round’s lead investor was HLM Venture Partners, but healthcare-focused investment group Cardinal Partners contributed along…

Hollywood-based physician group Wound Technology Network (WTN) inked a two-year agreement with AT&T to provide its certified wound care specialists with HTC FUZE smartphones running on AT&T’s wireless network. WTN has had a longstanding agreement with Verizon Wireless to provide…

Boston, MA-based MedAptus announced that three versions of its transactional medical application have been extended to Blackberry devices: The company has extended its Professional Intelligent Charge Capture software, including its Practice Plus Edition, Inpatient Edition and Enterprise Edition to BlackBerry.…

Back in February we reported that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) had just begun its conversation with the mobile health industry and that the ways in which it would regulate this emerging industry would come out of that conversation.…

This past week was a big one for wireless health — on all fronts. Here’s how the week’s news broke down:
Clinicians: Mt. Sinai and Mayo Clinic each forged ahead with wireless remote monitoring tools and patient-facing mobile applications. A…

The 3G Doctor reports that the GSM Association has published its Mobile Manifesto for Europe, which explains the association’s vision for the European mobile industry. Part of the manifesto includes a promise to “put in place a long term strategy…