Now that Sprint has built a wireless 4G network into some 48 markets and counting, dozens of federal agencies have jumped on the bandwagon, certifying Sprint 4G devices for use on the Sprint network. Read »

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 »

A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read »

Can "smart rooms" help healthcare providers prioritize activities at the point of care while delivering bedside access to digitized patient information to authorized hospital staff? Hospital officials at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) are convinced “smart rooms” can do just that - and they’ve tapped IBM’s SmartRoom technology to make it happen. Read »

Can a lensless microscope that works with either a mobile device or a PC help test for malaria, HIV and tuberculosis? That's what UCLA researchers intend to discover through studies being conducted in Africa this summer. Read »

What do an aging population, cost restraints, government giveaways, medical error reduction initiatives, and a shortage of medical professionals have in common? They're all key drivers, responsible for ratcheting up healthcare's total market for handheld devices, according to a new report. Up seven percent from 2009, this market segment is expected to hit $8.8 billion by 2010. Read »

With the World Health Organization reporting that uncorrected refractive errors rank as the world's second-highest cause of blindness, affecting an estimated two percent of the world's population, it's encouraging to learn that MIT's Media Lab is gearing up to begin clinical trials on a mobile health care innovation that can transform a cell phone into a sophisticated eye-testing device, using a snap-on plastic accessory. Read »

If you recall, when Apple’s iPad launched, it was alternately praised and hissed at for being…too cute by a half, perhaps? At the time, the reasons were many, for and against. Eventually, though, the noise died down. MHW poll respondents even went on to dub the iPad a potential healthcare “game-changer.” Now, it’s Cisco’s turn. Read »

Apple may have cashed-in big-time this past weekend following the launch of the iPhone 4, but Samsung has plans of its own for a smartphone rollout that could help the Suwon, South Korea-based electronics company grab market share from both Apple and Blackberry maker Research In Motion. Competition among smartphone makers, of course, can only be a good thing for the healthcare professionals who rely so heavily on these devices. Read »

Recently, Keith Kleiner of singularityhub.com posted on the Xprize promotional video for an AI physician on every smart phone. Artificial intelligence at the point of care will benefit from the kinds of IT advancements featured at the June 2010 Semantic Technology Conference. Semantics and linked data have already helped to revolutionize healthcare and life sciences research, enabling the querying of complex biomedical data sets and their visualization, the construction of knowledge sharing databases and repositories, and networking between researchers. Read »