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mHealth News: CPD Certification Service
19/07/2011
Mobile Health has been accredited by the CPD Certification Service. By attending this event, you will earn 18 points towards your continual professional development.

mHealth News: Mobile Healthcare to Surge
01/07/2011
Mobile healthcare is expected to reach $5 billion by 2013 and more than double by 2020 according to the Center for Technology and Aging

mHealth News: FDA Gives Okay to GE Healthcare's Groundbreaking Mobile X-Ray Platform
27/06/2011
GE Healthcare announced FDA clearance of three new user -friendly, mobile x ray systems

mHealth News: 4G mHealth: Possibilities & Pipe Dreams
23/06/2011
Ken Congdon (Editor in chief, Healthcare Technology Online) talks about the possibilities of 4G mHealth, and the imposing obstacles which may impede the pace at which these solutions become part of mainstream medicine.

• Experience EPI LIFE at mHealth 2011, Dubai
  25/10/11
  Experience EPI LIFE, the World’s first integrated ECG and Health Monitoring function on a mobile phone platform at mHealth 2011, Dubai.
• mHealth News: Toumaz Says H1 Trading In Line With View
  09/07/10
  Toumaz Ltd. Wednesday said trading for the six months ending June, has been in line with the board's expectations. The company noted that operational progress has been made in both healthcare applications and consumer focussed products.
• mHealth News: Text4Baby 50K; Microskia trial; Mobile pharma
  09/07/10
  Mobile marketing for healthcare not a strong opportunity yet: Pixels & Pills has a short and sweet interview with Manhattan Research’s Monique Levy that is well worth a read: “The opportunity for healthcare marketers to leverage mobile marketing for p
• mHealth News: Wi-Fi use in healthcare jumps 60 percent since last year, ABI Research says
  09/07/10
  Just as the Department of Veterans Affairs was revealing plans to install Wi-Fi for patients and visitors in hundreds of facilities, along comes a new report from ABI Research to confirm that Wi-Fi use is soaring in healthcare.
• mHealth News: Radiopaedia Teaching Files Now Also in HD on The iPad
  09/07/10
  Radiopaedia.org, that has been offering radiology teaching files on the iPhone for a while now, has recently updated its offering with an HD version for the iPad.
• mHealth News: Security of medical devices is a concern
  09/07/10
  No one can turn the clock back to the days before the Tylenol killer laced bottles of the pain reliever with cyanide and changed drug packaging forever. But computer scientists and a prominent Boston cardiologist warn that medical devices may also be vuln
• mHealth News: Healthcare's iPad killer: The Cisco Cius?
  09/07/10
  Cisco unveiled the Cisco Cius, a “mobile collaboration business tablet” that offers tight integration with Cisco’s cloud services, video applications and more. Cisco’s tablet is clearly looking to fill a potential gap created by Apple’s iPad. Where the iP
• mHealth News: Second and Third earlybird discounts are now available for mHealth 2010 Conference & Expo
  16/06/10
  Registering for Health 2010 Conference & Expo couldn’t be easier. Book early and take advantage of the Early Bird Discounts available.
• mHealth News: Dementia system brings greater safety to Surrey
  16/06/10
  A Surrey County Council initiative to help people with dementia continue living in their own homes has received the backing of the Alzheimer’s Society and the Surrey Coalition for Disabled People.
• mHealth News: When help is always at hand
  16/06/10
  More and more elderly people are able to live independently in their own homes thanks to sophisticated surveillance devices, reports Health Editor Barry Nelson.
• mHealth News: Home health computer project aims to cut hospital admissions
  16/06/10
  SMALL computers that provide an instant health check are being installed in the homes of pensioners as part of a £400,000 scheme to reduce hospital admissions. The machines, which are the size of a paperback book, allow elderly people with long-term co
• mHealth News: Telecoms - High-tech care
  16/06/10
  Julie-Ann Augusto manages the telecare and telehealth services in the South Eastern Trust’s area, which covers Ards, Down, North Down and Lisburn districts. Both involve the remote monitoring of patients who are not at the same location as the care provid
• mHealth News: Smart homes to tell you if elderly relative has had a fall
  16/06/10
  Smart houses that can tell if an elderly relative has had a fall in their home could be available within the next few years, according to British scientists. Sensors will be able to ‘read’ the health and well-being of those who live in a house and upload
• mHealth News: Study - Home telehealth, vitals monitoring cuts admissions for heart failure
  16/06/10
  A home-based interactive telehealth system with motivational support tools built in was able to reduce hospitalization rates by two-thirds, cut inpatient days by nearly three-fourths and significantly boost quality of life for patients with heart failure,
• mHealth News: Health 2.0 DC: Patient Power thru data liberación
  16/06/10
  The Health 2.0 Conference convened its first meeting in Washington, DC, today, with public sector health leaders and private sector innovators coming together in a Great Big Kumbayah. This conference featured two prominent and key players absent from prev
• mHealth News: Human Atlas HD iPad App from Blausen Medical
  16/06/10
  Check out the new Blausen Human Atlas HD iPad app, which features stunning 3D video animations of 150 common medical treatments and conditions. The 1-2 minute long, narrated videos cover 15 major body systems/categories: Cancer, Circulatory, Digestive, Ea
• mHealth News: mHealth in action
  16/06/10
  Recently Rwanda's President Paul Kagame made good on a promise and over 2,200 health workers received free phones in hopes of improving health services delivery.
• mHealth News: Portable kiosk takes health monitoring around the hospital, into patient homes
  16/06/10
  We haven't reported a whole lot on kiosks in FierceMobileHealthcare because, though they may incorporate portable computers, kiosks tend to stay in fixed locations. Not so for a new family of telemonitoring devices from Freestyle Semiconductor and Po
• mHealth News: iPhone app offers 2-way communications between doctors and drug manufacturers
  16/06/10
  Thanks to a collaboration with Pfizer, Epocrates‘ iPhone application will now support mobile access to the Pfizer Medical Information Group. Healthcare professionals with the Epocrates app will be able to directly contact pharmaceutical manufacturers and
• mHealth News: Polar adds heart monitor to Nike+iPod
  16/06/10
  Polar has inked a deal with Nike to connect a wireless-enabled heart rate monitor, called WearLink, to Nike+, one of the most high profile connected fitness products on the market. Users strap the WearLink accessory around their chest and it transmits the