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Welcome to the Mobility Healthcare Blog (MHB).  Many healthcare Blogs exist discussing many things. In this blog I would like to focus the discussion on what mobile technologies mean now and in the near future for the delivery of healthcare services.

The jury may still be out on whether or not the Obama administration's current health IT plans focus too heavily on older, proprietary products, as Google and Microsoft executives contend.

Tom Daschle's withdrawal is a disappointment to many in the HIT community because of his track record of advocacy for reform. It will be interesting to see who the Obama team puts up next, especially with regard to leadership in HIT. The need for greater use and funding of information technology in healthcare has been firmly established by a steady parade of industry groups, and they're not going away just because Daschle dropped out. Any replacement named by Obama will no doubt advance the same agenda.

So far this month, we can add two more healthcare organizations to the growing ranks of hospitals nationwide that are leveraging their Wi-Fi networks to streamline tracking efforts. Both Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., and Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) in Columbus, Ohio, have tapped Ekahau's Wi-Fi-based RTLS offering to make the most of their Cisco Wi-Fi infrastructures.