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Is VoWLAN ready for healthcare?

As WiMAX and LTE duke it out over the future of wireless connectivity, Wi-Fi—spurred on by the 802.11n standard—continues to grow by leaps and bounds. As several key market verticals, including healthcare, contend with the rapid adoption of laptop computers, Wi-Fi-enabled mobile handsets and other devices, it’s easy to see why unified communications and videoconferencing specialist Polycom recently declared: VoIP is the future.

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  • June 15, 2009

Canadian Hospital Taps Motorola For Enterprise Mobility

The Montreal Jewish General Hospital has implemented Motorola’s RFS7000 wireless switches and AP300 access ports in order to improve communication among staff members, as well as with patients. By deploying the WLAN solution, nurses in the hospital will now have advanced staff communications on IP phones, data applications at the bedside and connectivity for smart infusion pumps.

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  • January 29, 2009

Stimulus Bill Calls For Computerizing Health Care

Dr. John Halamka, the chief information officer at Harvard Medical School and one of its teaching hospitals says the IT provision of the stimulus bill would boost the number of physicians who use computers in their practice and create 200,000 jobs. Dr. Halamka currently oversees 20,000 computers dedicated to health care.

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  • January 28, 2009

Dell Solutions to Help Improve Patient Care

As part of the HealthcareGoesMobile.com community, we look forward to being a partner in helping you make the move to mobile point-of-care. The pressure has never been greater on healthcare providers to deliver better quality of care and improved outcomes, while increasing efficiency and lowering costs. Dell wireless solutions conveniently place the right resources where they are needed, when they are needed.

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  • May 22, 2009

Agency to Assess Value of Electronic Health Networks

A research group within the Health and Human Services Department plans to determine the value doctors derive from electronic records by distributing questionnaires and conducting focus groups in Colorado. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081202_3133.php

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  • December 4, 2008

Ritter praises new health records system

Last week in Denver, Tom Daschle, health and human services secretary-designate, indicated that investing in electronic medical record systems will be a “top priority” for the Obama administration. Obama also has called upgrading health information technology a critical. 

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  • December 16, 2008
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An inconvenient HIT scandal

Health industry leaders and observers on both sides of the border agree there are lessons to be learned from the eHealth Ontario debacle, which has at its center a newly organized agency mired in controversy this month over contract approvals and expense accounts. The chair of the organization's board resigned last week, just days after the CEO was forced out.

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  • June 29, 2009
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Getting to know you: MPOC

Having covered a broad range of healthcare technologies as a B2B journalist since the mid-1990s—most recently as Editor of MobileHealthWatch.com—I was excited to receive an invitation to help build the HealthcareGoesMobile online community. As far as I'm concerned, and in simplest terms, mobile point-of-care is the place to be right now.

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  • February 4, 2009

Nursing curriculum to receive healthcare IT infusion

Eclipsys has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, or Penn Nursing, to bring the healthcare IT company's technology and clinical expertise into the nursing curriculum. The two organizations will share the same values of promoting evidence-based practice, said Kathryn Bowles, RN, associate professor of Nursing at Penn Nursing.

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  • February 9, 2009

States increasingly wired for healthcare IT

A new report released by the National Conference of State Legislatures shows state lawmakers are moving at an unprecedented rate to get healthcare wired in their states. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10590

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  • By Mia Erichson
  • December 12, 2008