Weekly Wireless Roundup: Ten wireless health clinical trials

November 13, 2009 by MassDevice

Ten wireless health clinical trials MobiHealthNews rounds up 10 mobile phone-equipped clinical trials conducted by numerous academic institutions, world governments and big-brand healthcare companies like AstraZeneca.

AllOne Mobile: 5,000 texts to wounded warriors AllOne Health announced that its mCare pilot with the U.S. Army has facilitated more than 5,000 messages to the 100 "wounded warriors" participating in the program. The participants are U.S. veterans with traumatic brain injuries who typically need constant follow-ups and continuing medical care. The Army and AllOne plan to expand the number of participants to 10,000 wounded veterans.

Making the case for Bluetooth in healthcare Michael Foley, executive director at Bluetooth SIG, writes that the technology's 20 million devices make it the de facto wireless standard for health and fitness devices.

November spawns wireless health momentum Clinicians, consumers, policy makers and researchers all made wireless health news during the first weeks of November.

Brian Dolan is editor of MobiHealthNews, the emerging wireless health industry's daily monitor.

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