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In Atlanta this week wireless really was everywhere. The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 offered free WiFi service to all its attendees and it worked (almost) everywhere. Nearly every major electronic health records (EHR) vendor had a smartphone strategy…

“HIMSS has been working for decades to get the healthcare industry out of the 1970s and into the 21st century,” Sprint CEO Dan Hesse pointed out during his keynote at the HIMSS event in Atlanta this week. “That’s why I’m…

Dr. Ted Eytan, the Medical Director for Delivery Systems Operations Improvement for the Permanente Federation, has penned an important post that offers up six distinctions between mobile health and eHealth — Eytan emphasized that these are not reasons that mHealth…

Juniper Research analyst Anthony Cox writes that a forthcoming report from the research firm predicts that the number of machine-to-machine and embedded devices worldwide will increase to nearly 412 million by 2014. Cox writes that number “represents the tip of…

According to industry consulting firm Wireless Healthcare’s principal analyst Peter Kruger, there are more than 30 million people in the US that are caregivers for a family member, typically an older family member. Wireless Healthcare believes that providing this “hidden…

The increasing number of aging Baby Boomers, also known as the “Silver Tsunami” could produce a “short, sharp shock” for the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS), according to Wireless Healthcare’s Principal Analyst Peter Kruger, who shared his perspective at…

Wireless industry association CTIA teamed up with Harris Interactive to conduct a nationwide survey that found 78 percent of the U.S. is interested in mobile health solutions and 15 percent of the U.S. is extremely or very interested in learning…

Voalte announced this week a collaboration agreement with Sarasota Memorial Hospital that sees the care facility’s nurses using Voalte’s iPhone-based voice, alarm and text offering. Trey Lauderdale, Vice President of Innovation at Voaltė explained to MobiHealthNews in a recent interview…

Phreesia, a start-up that offers wireless tablets to practices in an effort to optimize patient check-in, announced today at the Heath 2.0 event in San Francisco that it had added an insurance eligibility check to its service.
Phreesia provides practices…

According to a recent report from Manhattan Research, by 2012 the percentage of U.S. physicians using smartphones will increase to 81 percent. The current rate of penetration is 64 percent, according to the research firm’s report “Physicians in 2012: The Outlook…