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Tablets, smartphones lead to 'distracted doctoring'
Doctors and nurses love their tablets and smartphones, but some hospitals are discovering that the gadgets can be a dangerous distraction. There isn't a lot of hard data on this trend, but there is
Qualcomm launches mobile health platform business
Mobile chip maker Qualcomm ( NASDAQ: QCOM ) announced plans to form a new business called Qualcomm Life, a division that will manage the development of the company's mobile health platforms. The
Research: Health care Wi-Fi poised for big investment
A new report from ABI Research says that the health care industry is poised to invest a considerable amount in Wi-Fi infrastructure within the next five years thanks to the increasing use of
Palm scanner IDs hospital patients
NYU Langone Medical Center is using an infrared light scanning technology to identify patients by the blood flow patterns their palms, one of 10 hospitals around the United States that have deployed
Q&A: Healthcare company uses automation to streamline IT, save money
Mid America Clinical Laboratories operates blood labs and manages labs in hospitals as well. As with almost all healthcare operations these days, there's little tolerance for IT processes that don't
Ponemon: Data breaches cost healthcare $6 billion a year
The U.S. healthcare system is expensive, but it could be less so if data breaches weren't costing it billions of dollars every year. The Ponemon Institute and the security consulting firm ID Expert
How Emory University's hospital replaces pagers with smartphones
Doctors may not be widely known as early adopters of IT, but when it comes to old-time pagers, increasingly they are eager to turn them in for smartphones. In light of that growing sentiment, Emory
Dell to use tiny Streak to drive deeper into healthcare
Dell is planning to market its tiny Android Streak computer to doctors and hospitals as a way of making greater inroads in the lucrative healthcare vertical, reports ZDNet's Larry Dignan. Healthcare
CMIO touts benefits of specialization
CIOs are becoming more focused on their organizations' business, and their roles and titles are changing accordingly. The healthcare field, for example, is seeing more chief medical information
Verizon, Qualcomm form JV for connected machines
The mobile operator industry sees the next wave of growth coming from connected machines. Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm are pushing that vision with a new joint venture that calls for the new entity
