HP's PalmPad coming? Hewlett-Packard files trademark request for the PalmPad. More
New FNIH chief: Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, which is producing the big mHealth Summit in Washington DC this November, just named Dr. Scott Campbell as its new Executive Director and CEO. More
$400 million for rural hospitals' broadband: The FCC just announced a $400 million a year program for rural hospitals across the US. The monies will provide affordable broadband to these medically underserved areas. More
Japan MDs use iPhones for brain scan analysis: MedGadget reports: "Clinicians at Tokyo's Jikei University Hospital now have their own iPhone application to receive tomographic scans of brain aneurysms of incoming stroke patients." More
Mashable on mobile health: Mashable has a nice overview on how mobile phones are boosting healthcare groups in parts of Africa. More WSJ has one too: More
New York Times reports on weight loss apps: "The beauty of mobile apps is that they work in real time. You eat lunch and immediately log in your meal on your phone." More
iPhone apps for moms: Scope Magazine reviews "top iPhone health apps for moms." More
Some 260 NC physicians to have AllScripts Remote: MedWest Health System, a three-hospital system in western North Carolina, has tapped Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution for its 60 employed physicians and its more than 200 independent physicians in the communities it serves. The care group is also planning to use Allscripts Remote for iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones. More
Wisconsin's $1M USF telemedicine funds: A number of nonprofit health orgs across Wisconsin will receive grants totaling $1 million from Wisconsin's Universal Service Fund (USF) Telemedicine program. More
Making pharma more like Intel: An engineering magazine interviewed Proteus Biomedical CEO Andrew Thompson in a video clip recently published to the web. Thompson's most interesting point is that unlike semiconductor companies and other tech companies, pharmaceuticals do not build on prior innovations, they have historically started had to start from scratch. Here's the video:
