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Webinar: Motion C5 MCA Can Improve Clinician Productivity and Enhance Patient Care – learn more!

In these Webinars, attendees will learn how the Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) is being used in healthcare organizations worldwide to improve clinician productivity and documentation accuracy and satisfaction.

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  • By Mia Erichson
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  • December 8, 2008

Unlocking Medical Information

When Baptist Health of Northeast Florida started planning its move to a paperless healthcare environment, management from the CEO on down were clear on one thing: Unhindered access to digital information would be critical. Today, Intel® technology-based mobile point of care (MPOC) solutions are enabling new ways to work and deliver care at two of Baptist Health’s community hospitals, and the remaining three are on track for conversion by early 2008.

The results are pervasive. “There is no aspect of clinical practice and no corner of the clinical care environment that hasn’t been impacted and improved by having mobile, simultaneous access to digital health information,” says Keith Stein, MD, chief medical officer at Baptist Health.

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  • June 28, 2008

Qualcomm Offers Plan for Digital Healthcare’s Future

Qualcomm’s Wireless Health Program aims to cut down on the time taken by doctors to patient data, which should free them to focus on treating patients.

Wireless’ Presence Felt at HIMSS

It wasn't just the keynote address by Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse that highlighted the growing role of wireless technology in healthcare at HIMSS10. It was the proliferation of booths and seminars covering all aspects of the integration of mobile technology and medicine that really set last week's show apart.

New Verizon Platform to Allow Digital Note Sharing

Verizon Business has launched a new platform—the Verizon Medical Data Exchange—that  will enable more than 350,000 physicians to digitally share patient notes by the end of the summer.

Study: Piecemeal Approach Stymies Healthcare's Wireless VoIP Efforts

Wireless VoIP and unified communications promise better patient care at homes and hospitals, but the deployment of these technologies is being hamstrung by a piecemeal approach that often ignores or even interferes with that care, according to a new study by Spyglass Consulting Group, a consulting group focused on healthcare IT.

MedApps' Telehealth Solutions to Leverage KORE Wireless Network

KORE Telematics, a digital wireless services provider specializing in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, has certified MedApps telehealth solutions for use on the KORE network. The MedApps Mobile Wireless Health Monitoring System relies on the KORE cellular M2M network to remotely collect, store and report timely and accurate health information from any location.

FCC's Wireless Probe Could Benefit Healthcare

The FCC plans to take a closer look at the wireless industry in an effort to increase competition and innovation, as well as to strengthen consumer protection. The government agency recently launched a Notice of Inquiry that seeks to identify a framework for analyzing wireless investments and innovation. The inquiry also will look at spectrum availability and utilization, as well as how the wireless space can help a variety of markets, including healthcare.

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How Far We’ve Come, How Far We’ll Go

It wasn’t all that long ago when the sight of someone talking on a cell phone was an anomaly. Now, the sight is a redundancy, to say the least.

Thinking about how far mobile technologies have come – and how far they could go – definitely leads to some serious jaw dropping.

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  • August 26, 2009

CUH Implements IP Telephony, Wireless Site Survey

IT solutions and services provider Dimension Data has deployed an IP telephony solution and wireless site survey at Cooper University Hospital (CUH). For CUH, a leading provider of comprehensive health services, medical education and clinical research in southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley, these projects have meant increased operational efficiency, enhanced patient safety and reduced expenses.

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