Mobile PERS a sign of things to come?
Date: May 14, 2010
The upcoming roll-out of a mobile Personal Emergency Response Service (PERS) is being touted as a harbinger of major advancement in connected location-based services.   Read »

Telehealth partnership aims to extend access to health info
Date: May 13, 2010
An expanded partnership effort between Brookfield, Wis.-based Honeywell HomMed and French mHealth solutions vendor eDevice could increase the benefits of telehealth monitoring for patients and healthcare providers by delivering greater access to health information utilizing existing network coverage at the patient's location.   Read »

Canadian hospitals look to RTLS
Date: May 12, 2010
One of Canada's largest regional acute care hospitals is deploying RTLS technology to better manage emergency department real-time patient flow across two locations.   Read »

Looking ahead to wireless RPM
Date: May 11, 2010
Wireless transmitters that send data from patients’ implanted cardiac devices to physicians are becoming more prevalent, even if the device makers seem set on keeping such transmissions within their own families of devices.   Read »

Survey: mHealth not ready for primetime yet, but soon
Date: May 10, 2010
A broad mix of mobile healthcare stakeholders are set to converge on San Diego this week for a three-day conference on wireless health, just as a report assessing the state of the industry concludes that mHealth is still emerging and not yet ready for mainstream adoption.   Read »

Familiar technology making a difference at the mobile POC
Date: May 07, 2010
Bar code systems have proven themselves highly useful and reliable over the past several years, but a study that just came out in the New England Journal of Medicine pinpoints just what a critical difference this technology can play at the mobile point of care.   Read »

Tapping Ultra Wideband for wireless patient monitoring
Date: May 06, 2010
What do you get when you blend an aging population, a nursing shortage, a seemingly endless supply of taxpayer dollars, and an FCC plan that claims remote monitoring has the potential to save $200 billion over the next 15 to 25 years? A slew of “connected healthcare” companies eager to differentiate their offerings.   Read »

Portuguese hospitals looks to RTLS
Date: May 05, 2010
Member hospitals of one of the largest private healthcare groups in Portugal are installing Ekahau's RTLS solution to enable mobile patients to call for a nurse and to provide emergency notification for staff members, among other purposes. Espirito Santo Saude (ESSAUDE), which consists of 15 healthcare units and two assisted living residences, expects the wireless RTLS offering to enhance safety and quality of care while boosting overall patient satisfaction levels.   Read »

DEA rule change to boost e-prescribing adoption?
Date: May 04, 2010
Providers on the go will have one more reason to e-prescribe if a new DEA rule goes into effect on June 1, permitting the electronic prescribing of controlled substances. Some have contended that the agency’s standing requirement that providers maintain a separate paper-and-fax-based workflow to prescribe controlled substances posed an obstacle to the adoption of e-prescribing technologies.   Read »

Location-based Healthcare
Date: May 03, 2010
With all the talk about the HP-Palm deal, and the announcement of further progress on IronRuby by Microsoft showcasing technology user TomTom, I thought it was interesting that Dell Wireless product marketing manager, Alan Sicher, made the point that location based services are not all about phones. While their laptop technology is apparently not intended as a Personal Navigation Device as is, it occurred to me that there may be some value (and danger) in marrying it with a heads up display a la Microvision for first responders and those volunteers who support them.   Read »