U-Minn Medical Center nurses ditch pagers: The nurses began using ASCOM handsets about six months ago, seeking to cut down on the time it takes to answer patient calls.
Home health monitoring market reached $11 billion in 2008: Home monitoring of chronic diseases is growing about 10 percent annually, according to a report from Berg Insight.
Kvedar: Change providers’ mindsets about technology: “The time for connected health really is now,” Center for Connected Health’s founder and director Joseph Kvedar told attendees at a MassMEDIC presentation.
Survey: Connected health could pare healthcare costs by 40 percent: Three-fourths of the healthcare providers, patients, payers and technology enablers surveyed by Cambridge Consultants said connected health preventative practice could significantly cut healthcare costs.
Brian Dolan is editor of mobihealthnews, the emerging wireless health industry’s daily monitor.