An agreement reached between GE Healthcare and Raleigh, N.C.-based TeleHealth Services should pave the way for a better healthcare communications solution. By including TeleHeath Services as a strategic partner reseller of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions nurse call and communication systems--including Telligence, a platform designed for healthcare facilities to address patient communication challenges--the companies plan to deliver an offering that addresses some of today's most complex healthcare issues for patient safety and quality of care. Read »

A collaborative effort joining Newark, Calif.-based mobile productivity solutions provider Socket Mobile with iBleep Ltd. and Dakota Integrated Solutions will supply advanced wireless communication systems to healthcare organizations throughout the National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. and elsewhere. Read »

A growing number of Americans may not trust the Obama administration and Congress to get health reform done right, but those who favor increased utilization of health IT can take comfort in the knowledge that more doctors are going digital as a growing number of health insurers cover online medical consultations. Read »

Twitter's rising role in medicine has been pretty well documented, primarily as a communications and marketing tool that promises to one day enable patients to play a greater, more participatory role in their own care. The mini-blogging service has proven itself in the OR, where several hospitals have leveraged the technology to educate their communities on specific procedures, as well as to raise awareness of things like the need for organ donations. Now, it looks like Twitter could play a big role in epidemiology, the branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations. Read »

Nokia and Intel aren’t saying what kind of products could emerge from their newly announced long-term partnership to develop smartphones and other devices that will run on Intel’s microprocessors. But, according to an InformationWeek report, the companies are interested in capitalizing on the convergence of mobile phones and PCs. Read »

The recent releases of the new Palm Pre and Apple’s iPhone 3GS offered a chance to speculate on what role, if any, these smartphones may come to play in the increasingly mobile healthcare industry. But if anyone was thinking these slick new devices could dethrone Research In Motion’s Blackberry, think again. The numbers tell a different story. Read »

Sprint Nextel was all over the news during the lead up to Saturday’s launch of the highly anticipated Palm Pre. Although neither Sprint nor Palm would comment on exact sales figures, claims by company officials indicating the wireless carrier experienced the best one day of sales and single weekend sales for any phone launched in the company’s history were supported by a J.P. Morgan report and the Wall Street Journal, both of which estimated between 50,000 and 100,000 Pres were sold, CNET reports. Read »