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Verizon-WellPoint partnership enables virtual chats between patients, nurses
Verizon Wireless and WellPoint this week announced a partnership that will allow members affiliated with the insurance plan to virtually chat with nurse care managers via a 4G LTE mobile device. The
Verizon Wireless debuts cost-conscious pharmacy app
Verizon Wireless is taking a big step into the mHealth market, and it's a bit of an unusual one. Partnering with its own pharmacy benefits vendor, Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based Medco Health Solutions,
Collaborations abound at HIMSS
At nearly every turn at HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., last week, it seemed as if companies were teaming up to produce various solutions geared toward improving patient care and lowering costs. Multiple
M-health offers great potential if someone's willing to fix the system
As high-level executives of healthcare companies, telecommunications firms and multinational nongovernmental organizations were on stage at the Washington Convention Center predicting wonderful
Patients don't want to pay for remote health monitoring
Old habits--and mindsets--die hard. The attitude of American consumers toward remote health monitoring devices is the same as it is for all kinds of other healthcare products and services: I want it,
'Verizon vs. AT&T' just as important as 'iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. Android'
Competition in the smartphone market is, well, fierce, and that's just as true in healthcare as in any other industry. And choosing the right phone isn't an easy chore, as we find out in a new post
There's more going on in mobile health than just the iPad
Amazing as it may seem, there is but one mention of the iPad in this entire issue of FierceMobileHealthcare. That reference comes in the "And Finally" section, in which we link to some offbeat news
Verizon Wireless tests remote health management
Verizon Wireless is joining with BL Healthcare, a Foxboro, Mass., maker of remote health management products, to work with various third-party application developers and some customers in a trial of
White House kicks off national text campaign for prenatal care
Mobile phones are showing their reach with the text-for-charity efforts that have raised millions of dollars, $10 at a time, for Haiti earthquake relief. Now, the Obama administration and some health
Vodafone wants in on the mobile healthcare action
We've just received word this morning that Britain's Vodafone Group is starting up a mobile healthcare unit at the beginning of 2010 that will work primarily with pharmaceutical companies and
