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UK hospital trials iPads on WLAN, but loves wireless asset tracking
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust in London has become the first pediatric hospital in the UK to adopt iPads for e-prescribing and medication management, and currently is running a
RAND pushes remote care to ease health system demand
Like so many others who follow healthcare, researchers at RAND believe home-based technology, such as remote monitoring devices and telemedicine, have great potential to rein in healthcare costs and
Funding m-health via 'alpha daughters'
Patient-centered care is one thing. Now how about designing a business model not necessarily around the patient, but around the family caregiver? In this case, call her the "alpha daughter," the
UK, Canada offer cautionary tales about EMR security
The problems and concerns people are having with EMRs are not exclusive to the U.S. Check the "Also Noted" section of today's newsletter and you'll see an item about a Royal College of Nursing survey
'Body-to-body' networks could serve healthcare, make Internet more mobile
Researchers at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, are studying how wearable sensors might not only help keep
Mobile health companies try to follow the money without alienating docs
With mobile healthcare conferences becoming all the rage, we can't be everywhere. Fortunately, Telecoms.com had someone at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit 2010 in London to follow the people
UK health officials push home monitoring
British health officials are all but banking on mobile and wireless technologies for patient self-monitoring as part of a 20-billion-pound ($31.6 billion) cost-savings plan for the National Health
CSC, RIM launch 'super app' for UK clinicians on BlackBerry
Computer Sciences Corp. and Research in Motion have teamed up to develop a "super app" that will allow staff in several regions of England's National Health Service to access and update patient data
UK med school pushes patient safety with iPhones
American medical schools have been doing this for a few years now, but the University of Leeds says it recently became the first in the UK to outfit each of its med students with the iPhone 3G S.
England moving away from national IT program
England's National Health Service is effectively ending the National Programme for IT, moving away from a centralized, national strategy for deploying IT to hospitals and clinics across the country
