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