Three iPhone hospitals Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Doylestown Hospital and Mt. Sinai Medical Center are all using the iPhone to support patient care. Cedars-Sinai created a HIPAA-compliant web portal optimized for the iPhone’s Safari web browser to access patient information and consolidate data from 30 hospital systems for 8,000 of Cedars-Sinai’s workers (and iPhone users). Doylestown Hospital’s workers use the device to access corporate email and a HIPAA-compliant portal for patient data, lab results, images and other clinical data. And Mt. Sinai created an iPhone app in-house for its care providers, VitalHub, a HIPAA-compliant app that hooks into 30 of 66 applications clinicians were already using at the hospital.

Doc: “Where I am should not limit what I can do or how I get it done” Dr. Andrew Barbash, neurosciences director at Maryland’s Holy Cross Hospital, uses his Google Droid and Google chat to communicate with his team. Barbash says mobile devices are game-changers for docs, who don’t yet realize how to use them to revolutionize their practices.

FCC: mHealth good for economic growth, jobs mHealth will have a huge role in transforming healthcare, according to the Federal Communication Commission’s digital healthcare director Dr. Mohit Kaushal, and is a potential source of economic growth and job creation.

CardioNet, eCardio together wirelessly monitor 320,000 hearts CardioNet says it passed the 300,000-patient mark with its mobile cardiac outpatient telemetry service; eCardio claims 20,000 patients monitored.

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