News

Global mobile health app market to grow 24 percent
By Brian Dolan | 07:14 am | August 23, 2011
Contest seeks development of Facebook app for emergencies
By Molly Merrill | 04:35 pm | August 22, 2011
Federal officials are challenging software application developers to design new Facebook applications to help people prepare for emergencies and get support from friends and family after an emergency strikes - from personal medical emergencies to natural or man-made disasters.
Rubbermaid Medical Solutions opens Innovation Center
By Mike Miliard | 04:10 pm | August 22, 2011
Rubbermaid Medical Solutions has launched a new Innovation Center and updated testing facility. The center highlights the evolution of medical carts and offers end users an opportunity to see how different EHR solutions can be utilized in a hospital environment.Coupled with a dedicated testing facility, Rubbermaid Medical Solutions is able to test products and technology in a simulated environment as well as in a controlled setting.
15 California community groups awarded telehealth funding
By Molly Merrill | 02:53 pm | August 22, 2011
Fifteen community groups across California have been awarded more than $5 million through the California e-Health Community Awards to adopt telehealth technology for the rural areas they serve.The awards were announced August 18 by UC Davis Health System and the California Telehealth Network (CTN) and are designed to assist the communities in becoming best-practice examples in the use and integration of technology to improve health and healthcare for local residents. Recipients of the Broadband Adoption Model eHealth Communities Awards:
First look at Echo Therapeutics noninvasive glucometer
By Chris Gullo | 08:54 am | August 22, 2011
Canada hospital inks deal for iPhone biometric scanner
By Chris Gullo | 08:08 am | August 22, 2011
A review of living with connected devices
By Chris Gullo | 11:08 am | August 19, 2011
$80 smartphone drives Kenyan mHealth adoption
By Chris Gullo | 08:59 am | August 19, 2011
Vendor Notebook: NoMoreClipboard offers PHRs to the uninsured
By Healthcare IT News Staff | 10:03 pm | August 18, 2011
NoMoreClipboard has announced a new partnership with Volunteers in Medicine of Monroe County, a free medical clinic in Indiana for adults without health insurance. The partnership will make personal health records available to VIM patients, giving them online access to electronic health information. Earlier this year, VIM was awarded grant funding from the Indiana Department of Health to provide a personal health record to patients with diabetes.
Patient check-in moves to the iPad
By Mike Miliard | 03:55 pm | August 18, 2011
Just three weeks after its iPad-native EHR made news for gaining ONC-ATCB-certification, drchrono has launched an iOS app to replace paper-based patient check-in.Company execs say the OnPatient app can be downloaded to the iPad for free and integrated into a medical practice as a standalone application - the patient check-in software also integrates with with the drchrono's iPad EHR.See also: iPad EHR gains meaningful use certification.