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Trade in Your Smoking Habit for a “CrackBerry” Habit – Stimulus Pilot Program In Washington DC

February 17, 2010

You have to love this one, but overall it’s a good cause and that you can’t debate.  BlackBerrys will give them something to do with their hands is part of the connection here.

I don’t think the government is picking up…

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Microsoft mHealth project MyLife tracks daily living

February 9, 2010

Not surprisingly, Microsoft Research is investigating how to integrate mobile health projects running on Windows Mobile powered phones into the company’s personal health information platform, HealthVault. The company’s director of technology strategy for Asia, Eric Chang, told PC World in…

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Microsoft Tag and Surface Working Together (Video) – The Frog is the Future of Your EOB Getting to Your PHR

February 6, 2010

I have posted about Windows Tag and their potential use for identifying recalled medical device and their use with keeping a lid on drugs too, but the FDA won’t even give me an answer. Read the link below for a…

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Business Card Reader Available for BlackBerry and iPhones

December 31, 2009

If you don’t want to manually type in all those contacts, here’s the answer and you will have to check for accuracy but correcting a few items certainly is better than inputting all the information.  I don’t see anything yet…

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Nuance Buys SpinVox – Speech Recognition With Voice to Text With Cell Phones

December 30, 2009

It certainly seems that Nuance has just about captured most of the speech recognition companies out there today and with this acquisition , they are even more entrenched into the mobile market with cell phones.  Just last month they introduced…

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3M launches smartphone physician dictation app

December 16, 2009

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…

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Cisco Investments in Healthcare – Mobile Technology in Partnership with United Healthcare

December 15, 2009

I have done a series of posts on how this is developing.  Recently in the news Verizon is also partnering with Cisco.

Verizon Telehealth Service Teams Up with Cisco – Video Consultations Unveiled

When watching the video you will hear United Healthcare…

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Black Series™ by Shift3® Bluetooth® Hands-Free Auto Speaker – It Works!

December 1, 2009

This is a bit of a departure from the blog, but this device works.  If you don’t happen to have a late model care with blue tooth embedded, get this.  If you travel and use rental cars, this is the…

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Participatory Sensing with Cell Phones – New Study to Determine If This Works and How Disruptive It Could Be

November 29, 2009

I talk quite a bit about medical devices that report data and send text messages here and the need for proper implementation.  We have a bit of a Catch 22 situation going on here as the companies that make the…

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MedAptus brings charge capture to BlackBerry

November 19, 2009

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.…

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