Telehealth
The Federal Communications Commission wants to foster the use of wireless devices and applications in healthcare as part of a national broadband plan the agency expects to release next month, according to a senior FCC official.
Cisco moved closer to the launch of a telemedicine platform with its January announcement of a pilot project involving 15 sites in southern California.
Information technology is playing a pivotal role in the work on the ground in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as Boston-based Partners in Health tends to the sick and the maimed.
MedApps, Inc., a provider of mHealth technology, is launching a new remote monitoring pilot aimed at chronic disease management for patients with Congestive Heart Failure.
Electronic health record vendor Epic has just released Haiku, an iPhone application that provides authorized users with secure access to schedules, patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes.
