The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read »

With roughly one in three American physicians toting an iPhone around, it was just a matter of time until a mobile app emerged promising to let them contact colleagues, change their call schedules, and protect caller ID on patient calls. Read »

The maker and distributor of the MedFlash Personal Health Management System plans to kick off September with the release of the system's first mobile Web app. Called MedFlash Mobile, officials at Palm City, Fla.-based Connectyx are saying the first phase of this new enhancement will deliver emergency information to MedFlash members through the existing Web browser on their mobile phones. Read »

In a move CEO Susan Bowditch describes as her organization's first serious venture into technology solutions, Jacaranda Village is implementing the new Motion C5v Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA). The residential aged care home, which aims to go paperless within the next two years, is among the first Australian healthcare organizations to adopt this mobile device. Read »

What do you get when an online information and technology company that markets to employers, benefits brokers and healthcare organizations joins forces with a Pennsylvania-based health insurer? A new, health-related iPhone app, of course. The latest to join the fray is called Health@Hand. Read »

AirWatch has expanded the delivery options for its enterprise-wide Mobile Device and WLAN Management (MDM) software with its recent introduction of the AirWatch software appliance. By offering mobile device management preloaded on a dedicated software appliance, the Atlanta-based MDM provider aims to supply customers in healthcare and other industries with three choices: software deployed behind the corporate firewall, Software as a Service (SaaS), or a software appliance. Read »

Set to become available through AT&T next Thursday (8/12), Research In Motion unveiled the 9800 Torch yesterday in Manhattan. The slick, slider smartphone boasts a touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard, will retail for $199, and promises to be the first device to run the Blackberry 6 OS. Read »

San Francisco-based pMDsoft is touting its new, native iPad charge capture application as a first-of-its-kind offering for the healthcare industry. Read »

The second busiest acute care hospital in New Hampshire is beefing up its wireless network for mobility applications in an effort to keep up with rapid organizational growth and an influx of new mobile technologies. Read »

Healthcare organizations can expect to be hearing from San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip Technologies, now that the developer of virtual real-time remote patient monitoring technology has received FDA clearance to market its mobile medical software applications, including AirStrip RPM, AirStrip RPM Critical Care and AirStrip RPM Cardiology. Read »