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Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, cofounders of BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion, Inc.) have a new initiative: a $100 million, highly selective investment fund called Quantum Valley Investments. The firm will be based in Waterloo, Ontario, the area Lazaridis hopes will become a “Quantum Valley...
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Last week San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip Technologies filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court of the Southern District of New York that alleges mVisum has infringed on AirStrip’s patent for remote monitoring of patient medical data on smartphones. AirStrip announced that it had secured...
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A recently published study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that mobile phone-based heart failure telemonitoring was an easy to use solution that offered immediate feedback to both patients and clinicians. The small study — just 22 heart failure patients used the mobile phone-based...
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The long-awaited boom in home-based, wireless health monitoring devices might happen sooner rather than later. In fact, Dr. Andrew Watson, medical director of the UPMC Center for Connected Medicine in Pittsburgh, believes that it will start in the next six to 12 months.
“Right now, the devices...
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Equitable Life of Canada announced the launch of its EZClaim app for BlackBerry devices. The mobile app enables users to submit health and dental claims and receipts electronically from their mobile device. An Apple iOS version of the free app is expected to launch soon, according to the company.
BlackBerry...
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Research In Motion (RIM) is this year’s recipient of the International Medical Corps’ Global Impact award for aiding disaster-recovery efforts worldwide with its BlackBerry smartphone. The 2011 Annual Awards Celebration takes place in Los Angeles next week.
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iMedicalApps is reporting that the developers of the popular Epocrates line of apps are offering Epocrates Essentials at no charge during the first two weeks of August. The product will be available to download FREE to all medical students who attend an accredited U.S. school. From the site it appears...
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Onset Technology released OnPage this week, a subscription-based mobile app for iOS and BlackBerry that acts as a pager-like priority messaging service. Onset is no newcomer to the mobile messaging space: The company was founded in 1997.
OnPage aims to attract doctors who still use pagers as a priority...
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Source: HealthLeaders Media Written by: Carrie Vaughan The number of people using mobile technology is on the rise. In 2008, the number of smartphone subscribers was 15 million. That number almost doubled in 2009, reaching 26 million, and is expected...
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BlackBerry’s are not dead, especially when you have a hospital system that has been using the mobile smart phones as part of their plan for a few years. We have a lot of choices today and granted others such as the Iphone and Ipad are moving in to a lot of new areas, but even with bringing in new...
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Just as if you re-negotiated with your carrier and upgraded or new contract for 2 years is required to get the “free” phone. As the article states the ones this week are the Droid operating system and keep checking back to see if Blackberry or Windows 7 units make the list. It doesn’t appear...
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Interpol the multi nation police agency has their own campaign warning individuals about buying medications online. In this first video below the woman who bought weight loss drugs has not become a diabetic for life, who was not one before. This was her first online purchase and she was trying...
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Well Blackberry gets the recognition here but it could be any mobile device and it’s the user and actually the person in the video used an iPhone. The information on the video states that this addiction works with the same part of the brain as using heroin, of course the big difference is there...
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You can visit the site and there’s not a lot there yet, but I’m sure there will be more shortly. There’s a column with a full list of accessories, and no images are available yet, but there are some prices listed. No word yet on the operating system, Windows, Android, OS,…or maybe something new...
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Well this is another area where the use of bar coding Microsoft Tags would have come in handy. Certainly the retailers will do their part, but having a cell phone to scan and find would be marvelous and what if they miss some products and are still on the shelves? Depending on the retailer...
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