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Cisco eyes hospitals as key users for new business-focused tablet

Cisco is targeting hospitals with its new business-oriented tablet, Cius, following a year's worth of beta development at Palmora Pomerado Health System, San Diego, as well as firms in the education

Cisco exec: Home monitoring needs standards, financial incentives

We report elsewhere in today's newsletter that the Continua Health Alliance is creating a library of source code to connect wireless medical devices with smartphones . Such developments are welcome in

Cisco leading telemed project at 15 underserved sites in California

Cisco Systems kept a relatively low profile in healthcare, even as it provided telemedicine equipment to numerous hospitals and remote care sites nationwide. That will change this month, as the San

Sutter hospital saves money, boosts satisfaction with wireless VoIP

Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo, Calif., spent $280,000 to implement wireless voice-over-IP telephony a little more than a year ago. The hospital recouped its investment in little more than

UnitedHealth, Cisco go national with telehealth plans

Cisco Systems and UnitedHealth Group are teaming up to create a nationwide network for telemedicine, marking perhaps the first time a major health insurer has gotten behind remote patient care on a

Is the UnitedHealth telemedicine deal a turning point?

If this week's announcement from UnitedHealth Group is any indication, things have changed permanently for the national telemedicine scene. Working with Cisco Systems, UnitedHealth made an

UnitedHealth Group, Cisco launch telehealth network

Until recently, health plans have been the biggest culprits in holding back the growth of telemedicine services, as few are willing to pay for them. Now, however, UnitedHealth Group seems like it's

Cisco exec promotes virtual house calls

Dr. Kaveh Safavi, healthcare practice chief for the Internet Business Solutions Group of Cisco Systems, believes it's time medicine went back to the future by embracing a 21st century version of the

Number of on-site corporate clinics continue to increase

The trend has been slowly gathering steam for some time now, and of late it seems to be hitting its stride. A growing number of large companies, including Cisco Systems, Walt Disney Co., Harrah's