infrastructure

Three Top Challenges for mHealth

An editorial in PLOS Medicine argues that the wide adoption of mobile health technologies face three major obstacles.
The first is interoperability, that is, the ability of an app…

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HCIT Leaders Offer Predictions for 2013

The end of the year always brings a flood of reflections and predictions, and this week InformationWeek Healthcare offered up an aggregation of predictions by health IT professionals. Their 12…

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SafeTown Integrates Health Apps into Public Safety Platform

The citizens of Anderson County, NC will soon be able to create household profiles using a web portal and a family of mobile apps that first responders can use when…

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Hospitals Face Major Investment in IT to Support mHealth

Hospitals need to make significant improvements to their IT network infrastructure to support the wide deployment of electronic medical records (EMRs), wireless monitoring technology, and mobile devices according to an…

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Most Wireless Medical Monitors Still Rely on Landlines

While implantable wireless monitoring devices are cutting edge technologies in most respects, most still rely on the 100-year old wired telephone infrastructure to upload data to the clinicians.  With more…

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