Medical and Health Apps for Consumers

Many doctors are concerned about the potential for misinformation in the fast-growing market for consumer medical apps. Some organizations, including Consumer Reports, and doctors now provide guidance to the ones that are best. MORE....

Researchers Study Impact of Mobile Medicine on Patient Outcomes

Dr Richard Katz of George Washington University and other researchers are examining whether cell phone-based programs or simple text messaging to cell phones can improve disease management and health. Mobile phones can link providers to patients for feedback, alerts, or information related to medications or other ongoing needs. MORE...

Unbound Medicine Adds Grasp™ Study System to Unbound™ Platform

Unbound Medicine has enhanced its platform with a customizable study system, Grasp, tools for quick term or drug lookup within a web page, and automated custom alerts deliverable to mobile devices. All are included in the newest release of Nursing Central, a mobile and web application for nurses with integrated drug, disease, diagnostic testing, and literature alerts. MORE....

Increased Use of Cell Phones Shown in CDC Study

CDC has issued an early report of findings from the National Health Interview Survey with estimates of wireless use in US households compared to telephone "land lines." During the study period, July-December 2009, American homes with only wireless telephones continued to grow to approximately 25% of all households, an increase of 1.8% compared to the first half of 2009. Another 15% of homes had a land line, but received most or all calls on cell phones. MORE....

Market for Mobile Devices in Healthcare to Grow in 20009

InformationWeek reports on a study from Kalorama Information noting that the healthcare industry is among the fastest growing handheld device markets. They predict growth of $8.8 billion, up by 7%. Most active segments are mobile monitoring and devices used in the workflow of patient care...MORE

Wi-Fi Use in Healthcare on the Rise

California Healthcare Foundation's iHealth Beat reports on a study by ABI Research, that shows 60% growth over the past year. Uses that increased significantly included wireless local area networks and wearable wireless monitoring systems...MORE

Top 10 Smartphones for 2010

One blogger has posted his picks for top Smartphones currently available or about to be released...MORE

Social Networking Grows with Doctors and Patients

According to an article in ComputerWorld, health care practitioners are increasingly using Web 2.0 technology and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to interact with and provide information to patients....MORE

Report Shows Growth in Mobile Health Market

CSMG, the strategy division of TMNG Global issued a report on the mobile health market on March 19th. The market of approximately $1.5 billion in 2009 (including fixed telemedicine) is expected to experience a compoound annual growth rate of 25% over the next five years...MORE

Mobile a Major Trend in 2010

After reviewing plans for the upcoming Consumer Electronics show, a reporter at smartplanet.com concludes that mobile will be the big trend in healthcare in 2010...MORE

Verizon Enters Telehealth Business

Verizon has announced the launch of a new telehealth service that supports video consultations between patients and physicians with integrated audio and video communications. The goal is to provide increased access to specialists and control costs of patient-provider encounters while improving patient health monitoring...MORE

Hospital Support for iPhone Aids Nurses

Nurses at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System are using a hospital supported iPhones for text messaging, voice calls, and critical care alarms to provide faster response to patient needs. The hospital's need for paging dropped almost 80 percent....MORE

USDA grants for Rural Telemedicine

Federal Computer Week has announced that the US Department of Agriculture will award just under $35 million in grants to support telemedicine and distance learning programs to improve health care services in rural areas....MORE

Mobile Point-of-Care Resources in Pediatrics

Unbound Medicine has announced Pediatrics Central, a new group of mobile + web products with valuable information on pediatric diseases, infectious disease, drugs, drug interactions bundled with tools to access the latest journal literature...MORE

Social Media Use for Health and Medical Information

A new study by Manhattan Research found that approximately 35% of American adults (80 million) used social media for health and medical purposes in 2009. During this period consumers created or accessed material in blogs, chat rooms, social networks, and health communities. MORE...

Cell Phones Assist Rural Medical Imaging

A project at MIT's Media Lab has established use of cell phones in rural areas to transmit x-ray images to radiologists in urban areas. This offshoot of telemedicine is improving diagnosis and care in a remote area of the Philippines...MORE

CDC Funds New Projects in Health Care Informatics

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded $4.37 million in grants supporting health care informatics in response to public health threats. Included in the funding are four new centers: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Indiana University, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Utah. One of the projects in Indiana focuses on overcoming barriers to bringing public health to the point of care...MORE

Doctors Fail to Respond to Alerting Systems

A stody published September 28, 2009 in Archives of Internal Medicine showed that 8% of physicians did not respond promptly to test results communicated by alerting systems...MORE

Physicians Use Smartphones with Medical Applications

Wireless and Mobile News reported on a study by MDsearch.com, saying that 53% of physicians surveyed own a smartphone and 63% of these use mobile applcations such as drug guides, calculators, clinical resources, CME, and medical dictionaries...MORE

CDC Uses Social Media to Issue H1N1 Information

Information Week reports that the CDC will make use of Twitter, YouTube, and other social media to spread information about Swine Flu to the public...MORE

Twitter Applications in Health Care

An article in the Jul/Aug 2009 issue of Telemedicine and e-Health discusses current and potential uses of Twitter in medicine....MORE

Best Medical Software for Your PDA

After a brief overview of available mobile operating systems, Medical Economics reviews the top medical software...MORE

Insurers Cover Online Patient/Physician Consultation

More physicians are communicating with patients online now that an increasing number of health insurance companies will cover consultation via chat, video conference, or interactive questionnaires....MORE

Wireless Patient Monitoring Holds Promise for Health Care

According to the Wall Street Journal, technology companies are exploring the potential of wireless to improve patient care through remote monitoring. Using existing infrastructure, more than four billion cellphones have been sold to date, these devices can send medical data to doctors. Many hospitals, once shy of cell phones, now see cutting wires as a way to cut costs....MORE

NIH Scientists Encouraged to Support Wikipedia

The National Institutes of Health recently co-hosted a training session with Wikipedia Foundation to instruct members of the NIH community in authoring and editing content for Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia sees it as a way to increase and improve health-related content...MORE

Cell Phones as Repository for Personal Health Records

With increasing numbers carrying mobile phones, these devices are seen as a way for individuals to monitor health by monitoring diabetes, blood pressure, or other indicators for chronic conditions. Regularly gathered information could be easily stored with historical health data and shared with health providers responsible for patient management...MORE

Healthcare Information Management Executives Surveyed on CPOE

Computerized physician order entry systems are available in 199 of 335 hospitals represented by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), however respondents indicated that full adoption of the systems in their institutions may take more than 2 years...MORE

Impact of iPhone and Other Wireless Technologies on FCC and FDA Policy

Availability of powerful wireless phones (e.g., iPhone) and new mobile healthcare applications and services that support patient monitoring or help patients manage conditions and treatment regimens raises questions of policy implications for the FCC and the FDA. The FCC has jurisdiction over the use of the electromagnetic spectrum used by cellphones and devices that are attached to or are implanted in patients to monitor and transmit information wirelessly to health care providers. The FDA is responsible for approving medical devices before they are made available to the public....MORE

Unbound Medicine's uCentral Supports iPhone Users in Medical Institutions

Unbound Medicine has released an application for iPhone™ and iPod® touch devices in institutions that subscribe to uCentral™, a custom point-of-need solution purchased by medical libraries to deliver information such as 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Harrison's Manual of Medicine, The Merck Manual, Davis's Drug Guide, and Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary...MORE

Developers See iPhone Potential as a Medical Device

With 30 milllion iPhones sold and over 1 billion apps downloaded in two years, pharma companies and third-party developers are thinking of ways to make and market medical applications for both patients and professionals...MORE

5-Minute Clinical Consult for Mobile + Web Available from Unbound Medicine

The new 2010 edition of 5-Minute Clinical Consult is now available from Unbound Medicine in a unique mobile/web configuration. Subscribers get the latest information on the diagnosis and treatment of 715 medical conditions plus 200 bonus topics on common pediatric diseases. The subscription includes regular updates and 1 year of free access to a drug database, patient education, and more at 5MCC.com. MORE...

89% of US Physicians Consider Internet Essential

According to a study from Manhattan Research, 89% of online US physicians consider the Web essential to their practice of medicine. Physicians are consulting online resources via computer and mobile devices at multiple points during the day for information about clinical decisions, to make recommendations to patients, and to keep up with changes in medicine....MORE

Unbound Medicine Announces Support for Android

Unbound Medicine has announced release of premier medical references for smartphones running the Android™ mobile technology platform from Google, Inc. Among the products now available for Android are best-selling medical and nursing titles that help clinicians answer questions at the point of need, including The Merck Manual, Davis's Drug Guide, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, and the Five-Minute Clinical Consult In addition, Unbound's unique aggregated offerings, Nursing Central™ and uCentral™, for individuals and institutions may be downloaded to Android devices MORE...

Smartphone Use Increases Among Physicians

In 2009, 64% of doctors in the U.S. reported they used a smartphone, according to Manhattan Research. Only 30% answered the same way in 2001. ...MORE

Diagnosaurus Available on iPhone/iPod touch

Unbound Medicine has announced the release of the popular differential diagnosis aid, Diagnosaurus, for iPhone and iPod touch....MORE

Physicians Ignore e-Alerts when Prescribing

A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine studied the actions of more than 2800 physicians in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in generating 3.5 million electronic prescriptions. One in 15 of these prescriptions resulted in an alert for a drug interaction or allergy, more than 98% of which were for a drug the patient was already taking. In more than 90% of interaction warnings and 77% of drug allergy alerts, the clinician overrode the warning...MORE

Google Enables Sharing of Personal Health Records

Google has announced changes that enable individuals to share their health profiles with health care providers. Access to invitees is limited to 30 days, viewers can not change a profile, and owners can see a report listing all viewers. MORE...

Doctor Visits Via the Internet

Several companies now connect patients to physicians with telemedicine services. After completing forms about history and chief complaints, patients and physicians meet using online video, text chat, or phone....MORE

Mobile Technology for Healthcare in Developing Nations

A new alliance of foundations such as the United Nations Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Vodafone Foundation has formed to jpromote mobile and computer technology as a means of improving healthcare in the developing world. The effort was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...MORE

Report on Physician Use of Smartphones

iHealthBeat from the California Healthcare Foundation has issued an audio report on applications available for physicians on smartphones...MORE

iPhone and other Smartphones Change the Way Doctors Practice

Pagers are being replaced with smartphones in an increasing number of physicians' pockets because of their ability to handle images and to provide quick access to drug and other important reference data...MORE

Website Devoted to Use of Mobile Phones in Healthcare

"Wireless Healthcare" has launched a new Website, themobilehealthcrowd.com devoted to the use of mobile phones in healthcare. It includes their earlier report "101 Things To Do With A Mobile Phone in Healthcare" and asks community members to contribute information about devices and services....MORE

Incentives for e-Prescribing include Handheld Devices

The Wall Street Journal has reported an increase in the number of physicians moving to e-prescribing. Some plans are offering a number of bonuses and incentives including e-prescribing equipment such as digital handheld devices to make the transition easier...MORE

Unbound Medicine Announces Download Support for iPhone and iPod touch

Unbound Medicine has announced that its mobile products are now available for download to iPhone and iPod touch devices. The first application to be released is Nursing Central...(MORE)

Physician Use of Smartphones on the Rise

The American Medical News cites reports from two research groups that as of September 2008, 54% of physicians were using smartphones and that by 2011 that number will grow to 70%...MORE

PDAs Prove Valuable in Monitoring Patients with Mental Illness

A research team from University of Missouri has published an article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology describing the use of personal digital assistants in monitoring patients with borderline personality disorder. Participants were equipped with devices that prompted them to respond to a series of questions at random times through the day, giving doctors detailed information about their experiences and moods...MORE

Unbound Medicine Now Available for Download to BlackBerry

Unbound Medicine has announced that its software can be downloaded to BlackBerry devices. Releases include popular titles such as 5-Minute Clinical Consult and Nursing Central....MORE

73% of Physicians Go Online Daily for Clinical Information

A new survey showed that 73% of doctors go online for clinical information at least once daily,and almost 20% consult websites 5 or more times a day....MORE

Nursing Interest in Wireless Connectivity in the Hospital

Enterprise-wide wireless solution addresses nursing need for wireless connectivity and mobility during patient care. MORE...

Unbound Medicine has released a series of new “digitally born” products developed in partnership with Merck & Co., Inc. The new products extend The Merck Manual franchise with a new database focused on the assessment and treatment of patient symptoms. MORE...

Wireless Technology Deployed in Illinois Hospital

A Peoria, Illinois hospital has installed wireless technology throughout the facility to increase patient monitoring capacity as well as extended use of cell phones, PDAs, pagers, and laptops at the point of care....MORE

Medical Students at University of Louisville to Use Wireless Resources

University of Louisville Medical students will benefit from a partnership between the school and Sprint to provide smartphones preloaded with medical applications...MORE

American Academy of Pediatrics and Unbound Medicine Launch Pediatrics Site

The AAP and Unbound Medicine have launched Pediatric Care Online™. Created especially for pediatricians and pediatric residents, the point-of-care solution integrates AAP reference content with Unbound's award-winning platform making the site easy to access using a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless device, or the Web....MORE

Department of Health and Human Services Demonstrates Health Information Network

HHS recently demonstrated live operation of the Nationwide Health Information Network via webcast. Using actual health systems, the test showed how health care providers will be able to use a Web browser to access patient records stored in a different health system. http://www.govhealthit.com/online/news/350589-1.html?GHITNL=yes...

Army Testing Cell Phone Messaging to Trauma Patients

The U.S. Army plans to test the use of text-messaging to cell phones of troops who have suffered brain injury as a result of trauma. The system is designed to urge patients to comply with treatment and to allow the health care team to improve monitoring...MORE

iPod Touch in the Health Care Setting

In a recent blog post, Dr John Halamka described the advantages of the iPod Touch as an information source for health care providers....MORE

Medline Search RSS Feeds

Unbound Medicine has added a nifty RSS feature to our Unbound Medline product. Using this feature is a terrific way to keep abreast of the latest medical information published for a specific subject.

To subscribe to a Medline Search RSS, simply run a search in Unbound Medline and click on the RSS link. You can use your favorite RSS reader to track the latest Medline search results for your saved search.

To show the ease in which one could subscribe to a Medline Search RSS feed, I created a sample search and will list the link to the RSS feed below. I have an interest in journal articles that publish information about Smartphone and PDA use in medicine, so I searched the following in Unbound Medline:

"iPhone OR Smartphone OR Handheld Computer"

In the search results I clicked on the RSS link and saved the URL.

http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/search/iphone_or_smartphone_or_handheld_computer.rss

I use Google Reader as my default RSS reader, so I simply subscribed using this URL. Now everytime I open Google Reader I will see the latest Medline search results for this saved search.

Mobile Medical Practitioners to Push Medical Device Market

According to a report by Wireless Healthcare, an anticipated increase in the level of healthcare delivered outside of hospitals will be a critical factor in the medical device market over the next 10 years....MORE

Military EHR Incorporates Mobile Devices

PDA devices are used to manage patient information and assessment in the field. Users are able to quickly gather structured information on history and physical and use the system to generate a care plan based on triage rules and best practice protocols. Because cellular support is unreliable iThe user interface is designed to be easy to navigate in high stress conditions. Given the lack of WiFi and reliable cellular in battlefield conditions, the device is later synced with acradle to transfer medical records to the system....MORE

CDC Offers New Health Data Widget

CDC.gov has developed a CDC Data and Statistics Widget with up-to-date health and safety content....MORE

Wolters Kluwer Health and Unbound Medicine Launch Mobile Clin-eguide

The Wolters Kluwer Health online clinical decision support tool, Clin-eguide, is now available for use at the point of care in a mobile version powered by the Unbound Platform....MORE

More Physicians Communicating with Patients via the Web

As many as 36% of doctors in the U.S. are communicating with patients online, compared to 31% in 2007. This group is also more likely to use a smartphone or PDA and to consult Internet resources during or between visits with patients. MORE...

Study Uses PDAs to Monitor Nursing Activities

A national research project is using PDAs to assess how nurses are using their time. Nurses carry the devices in a pocket and when prompted by an alarm they quickly note their current activities. The long term goal of the study is to improve patient care and safety by better understanding the responsibilities that keep nurses from spending time at the bedside with their patients....MORE

Unbound Medicine and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Launch 5-Minute Clinical Consult

Unbound Medicine and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins have launched the digital versions of 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2009. This popular resource can be found on the Web at 5mcc.com, or downloaded to PDA or Smartphone for quick reference on the go....MORE

ACP Position Paper on Increased Use of Technology

A recent position paper released by the American College of Physicians supports increased use of health information technology, but points out that physicians should be reimbursed for the required investment of time to review and maintain patient data as well as the cost of equipment...MORE

Internet Presents Opportunities for Healthcare

Multiple challenges and opportunities are seen as developers create new ways to gather and disseminate the complex knowledge required to practice health care today. This report from European website OBBeC evaluates some of the difficulties and presents some possible developments...MORE

Wireless Technology Developments

Development of wireless technology and the need for remote health care will drive change in the near future, according to one expert...MORE

New Medical Uses for Cell Phones Proliferate

The Boston Globe recently reported on a wide variety of applications being devised for both researchers and consumers in healthcare. Examples include the use of cell phone cameras to aid diagnosis of diseases in remote locations, medication reminders, and streaming video to aid emergency response teams...MORE

Google Releases Personal Health Records Application

Google has joined companies like WebMD and Microsoft in creating a website where individuals can organize and store their personal health records, according to the New York Times....MORE

MLA 2008 - Unbound Medicine Review

Michelle Kraft's blog, "The Krafty Librarian," reported on mobile tools for clinicians in her notes from the Medical Library Association meeting in Chicago....MORE

IBM Targets Health for Mobile Phone Applications

IBM Research is developing applications for mobile phones, including one designed to supply information to aid people on the scene in medical emergencies. MORE...

Peruvian Physicians Use PDAs in Treatment of TB

A recent initiative launched by a doctoral student from MIT and Harvard Medical School worked with Socios en Salud (SES), a Lima-based health organization to provide PDAs to physicians working in the slums of Lima, Peru. Using these handheld devices, health workers could easily manage information they need to track, treat and support patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. MORE...

Ontario Provides PDAs to Nurses

PDAs will be provided to as many as 2,000 nurses in Ontario, Canada. The goal of the provincial government is to support access to drug databases, disease information, and medical dictionaries at the patient's bedside. MORE....

Growth In Use of Wireless in US Hospitals

Wireless capability is increasingly seen in U.S. hospitals. Sales in wireless has been growing at an annual rate of 23% since 2005, with sales of $2.7 billion in 2007. Hospitals see wireless support for their mobile nurses and physicians as a way to make their staff more productive while reducing medical errors. MORE...

Smartphones for Medical Imaging

Engineers at the University of California at Berkeley and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a way to transmit medical images using cellphones. This promising technique could make modern imaging modalities such as ultrasound, radiography, and MRI more affordable and accessible in the developing world. MORE...

Doctors Take Up Smartphones

Use of smartphones in clinical practice is slowly increasing as more doctors understand the power of these "pocket computers" and try new medical software being designed especially for iPhone and BlackBerry as well as Palm and Pocket PC...MORE

New Improved Tabers Online

F.A. Davis Company and Unbound Medicine, Inc. have just introduced a new online version of the popular Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary with features not available on the previous website....MORE

Wireless Handheld Devices Could Improve Infectious Disease Reporting

A study published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice reported that availability of handheld devices and wireless access to informational websites can improve physician reporting of infectious disease outbreaks...MORE

Physician Use of Internet Increases

Physicians use of the Internet for work related activities is increasing. A recent survey by Jupiter Research shows that eighty-nine percent of responding physicians responding research clinical information online at least monthly, compared with 75% in 2005. In 2007, 78% of survey respondents reported communicating with colleagues via e-mail, and 39% reported communicating with patients via e-mail, up from 2005, when 54% reported e-mailing colleagues and 20% used e-mail with patients. MORE....

More Web Browsing from iPhone than Windows Mobile

Recent market research indicates that the Apple iPhone now accounts for .09% of all Web browsing, compared to .06% for Windows Mobile devices. Analysts speculate that despite the low numbers, this demonstrates the superiority of the Safari browse to the browser currently available for Windows users...MORE

Medical Trainees Use iPods as Part of Training

Medical residents in California have been using short videos on iPods as a refresher before performing ultrasound procedures. This technique helps them get the most from short, intensive courses during specialty training....MORE

Unbound Medicine Releases Free Search Tools for iPhone

Unbound Medicine released Unbound MEDLINE for iPhone™ and iPod touch™ access. Unbound MEDLINE provides instant access to more than 17 million journal articles so healthcare providers can practice evidence-based medicine right at the point of care. Unbound MEDLINE’s interface searches the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed® database....MORE

Technology to Boost Nursing Efficiency

The American Academy of Nursing Workforce Commission claims that increased use of technology in the healthcare workflow can make nursing practice more safe and efficient. The study of 25 hospitals and health systems, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation stated that increased use of IT could free nurses to spend more active time with patients...MORE

Wireless Devices Used to Monitor Patients with COPD

Health researchers in Canada will arm patients with wireless BlackBerry devices that they can use to report symptoms daily. The goals of the study are to establish the viability of the wireless reporting system and to evaluate the impact of early detection of exacerbations of COPD....MORE

Study of Mobile Devices in Patient Care Setting

A recent study of preferences of 100 physicians, cited infection risk in physician reluctance to use mobile devices at the bedside....MORE

PDAs with GPS used to prevent malaria

Researchers from the CDC have developed tools that rely on GPS technology and PDAs to aid in the prevention of malaria in developing countries. Devices were used to collect data on availability of bed netting, and findings were recently reported in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene...MORE

Use of PDAs for ePrescribing Brings Savings in Mississippi

Over 200 physicians have been equipped with PDAs for eprescribing, saving Mississippi’s Medicaid program approximately $1.2 million per month in prescription costs. The system reduces medication costs and increases patient care quality by improving access to patient medication histories as a means of preventing adverse drug interactions...MORE

Hospitals Expand Wireless Networks

To avoid the risk of interference with medical devices that is posed by cell phones, some hospital centers are creating wireless networks to support communication with mobile phones and laptop computers...MORE

Partnership Announced by Sprint and GE

Sprint and GE Healthcare have announced that they will collaborate on wireless communications within the hospital environment...MORE

Physicians Using PDAs to Improve Care and Save Time

An article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer describes how physicians increasingly rely on information that they access via handheld devices during patient care activities...MORE

CDC Launches Redesigned Website

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a newly redesigned website...MORE

Consumers Consult Internet as Frequently as they do their Doctors

A recent Harris Poll shows that Americans go to the Internet as a primary source of healthcare information almost as often as they consult a physician....MORE

Microsoft Research Grants for Study of Cell Phone Platforms in Healthcare

In September, Microsoft's External Research & Programs unit will call for proposals to fund research for "Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare" in order to study the application of cell phones to healthcare services. Grant applications will be due in October with up to $700,000 in grant awards to be announced in January....MORE
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Free Smartphones for Electronic Prescribing

The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) with Sprint and Allscripts will provide 1,000 licensed prescribers with Smartphones in order to increase electronic prescribing and reduce medical errors. ...MORE

University of Florida and IBM Explore Mobile Healthcare Solutions

The University of Florida and IBM have announced that they are partnering to create mobile technology to monitor and transmit patient data to healthcare providers or family members. ...MORE

National Health Service (NHS) and Dell Experiment with Mobile Patient Data

Results of a new trial within the NHS have been announced by Dell. The experiment enabled community-based clinicians and therapists to access patient care records and clinical systems from any location....MORE

Unbound Medicine Releases 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2008

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult for 2008 has been announced by Unbound Medicine. MORE...

Unbound Medicine Available on iPhone

Unbound Medicine has announced availability of its wireless applications on the new iPhone! The customized iPhone interface takes full advantage of the built-in web browser to give health professionals quick answers over cellular and WiFi networks...MORE

Ambulance Crews Outfitted with PDAs

The University of Warwick in collaboration with the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee has developed clinical practice for the UK Ambulance Service. Ambulance crews will carry PDAs with information such as resuscitation drug doses, toxic chemicals, and poisoning....MORE

Microsoft Announces Internet Portal for Mobile Phones

Microsoft has launched a new MSN portal that is optimized for mobile phones. Experts say there is pent up demand for improved Internet service and richer content on Smartphones. MORE...