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Intermountain Healthcare selects Kony as mobile application platform of choice

7 days ago by
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Kony Solutions announced that Intermountain Healthcare has selected Kony as its mobile application platform.

2011 mHealth Summit opens with all-star keynote speakers #mHS11

Dec 06, 2011 by
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Details from the first day of the 2011 mHealth Summit, including a speech from keynote speaker Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of HHS and Eric Topol, MD.

Mobile healthcare market in Asia expected to take off, hit $7 billion by 2017

Nov 23, 2011 by
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The mobile healthcare market in Asia is growing and expected to reach 7 billion by 2017 according to a study by the GSMA and PriceWaterCoopers.

Social Media and Health Care: Why Add Another Task to a Busy Physician’s Day?

Aug 23, 2011 by
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Part 1 of a 2 part series discussing social media and its impact on health care.

Michelle Obama’s Fight Against Childhood Obesity Comes to the iPhone and Android – with $40,000 At Stake

Mar 13, 2010 by
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The First Lady yesterday announced an innovative new component to her Lets Move! campaign against childhood obesity yesterday – a call to developers to produce healthcare apps for the iPhone/Android/etc that encourage children to make healthy food choices and exercise more. Its an interesting and forward-looking approach to a major problem. While popular attention is focused often on adult obesity (e.g. the classic hip-level video of larger Americans walking), childhood obesity is not only a problem now but a big [Read more]

Help Us Help You!! What iPhone And Android Medical or Healthcare Apps Do You Want Reviewed?

Mar 12, 2010 by
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Our goal here is simple – to help connect physicians, nurses, PA’s, NP’s, EMT’s, and students to the apps that will help make them better at caring for patients. Whether that’s by learning anatomy better, having tools to share with your patients, or an accessible refresher on how to do procedures, there’s a lot out there that could us and you take better care of physicians. So please let us know (in the comments section here) what apps you would [Read more]

The UK’s National Health Service Takes its War on Smoking to a New Front: The iPhone

Mar 11, 2010 by
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Smoking is an addiction – that’s something we all know. But the chemical addiction, i.e. the biochemical dependence that develops in a person’s brain, has been curable for quite some time. Drugs like Bupropion, Chantix, and the various forms of nicotine replacement are all pretty effective at tying a person over as their body withdraws from the nicotine they had been filling their lungs with for years or decades. What has been the bane of patients and healthcare providers alike [Read more]

The Company That Could Turn Your iPhone Into Part of a Global Disease Surveillance Program – A Look at the Public Health Work of Northrop Grunman

Mar 11, 2010 by
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For anyone interested in global health, there are a cadre of organizations that typically spring to mind as leaders – the CDC, USAID, and the Gates Foundation for example. I had the opportunity while at HIMSS to chat with folks from another organization that put boots on the ground immediately after the Haiti earthquake, is running programs worldwide on a number of endemic diseases (HIV/AIDs, malaria, lymphatic filiarisis), and operates a high-tech lab in Atlanta to develop field tools for [Read more]

Will Healthcare Providers Shun or Embrace the iPad – Conflicting Surveys Send Mixed Messages [Updated]

Mar 10, 2010 by
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Updated! This post has been updated below to include comments from the folks at Epocrates The excitement and hype surrounding the announcement of Apple’s iPad have subsided for the time being, perhaps just a lull prior to the actual release in a few months. Here at iMedicalApps, we were certainly among the many believers and expected that the iPad could make significant contributions to healthcare, such as potentially replacing the physician’s clipboard or medical textbooks. However, we did disagree at [Read more]

Triage and Treat Patients From Anywhere with Allscripts Remote iPhone App- An Electronic Health Record and ePrescribing Tool (upcoming Android support)

Mar 05, 2010 by
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This article is part of iMedicalApps HIMSS 2010 Coverage. It includes a brief review of the Allscripts Remote app for the iPhone as well as details of a conversation with Allscripts executives who revealed that they are moving to development of an Android app. When Allscripts announced the launch of Allscripts Remote last year, an iPhone application for their popular electronic medical record, it was widely touted as a transformational move. Forbes Magazine called this an app “that could change [Read more]

Nuance Brings Medical Dictation and Search to your iPhone: Dragon Medical Mobile Apps [Video]

Mar 03, 2010 by
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In this video we check out two of the Dragon Medical Mobile Apps (releasing later this year) for the iPhone, Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation and Medical Mobile Search.  We recorded this video from Nuance’s booth at the HIMSS conference Nuance, the makers of Dragon Medical Dictation, a favorite dictation service among many physicians, announced at HIMSS they are bringing the same medical transcription service to the iPhone. Many readers may have noticed the recent arrival of a free Nuance “Dragon” [Read more]

Epocrates’s recently announced Electronic Health Record will utilize many iPhone features

Mar 02, 2010 by
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We discussed the features Epocrates EHR will have with one of their senior vice presidents. We were excited to learn there will be lots of iPhone integration.