HIMSS Goes Mobile: Honeywell; Google; Nuance Google Health announced a number of deals at this weeks Healthcare IT conference in Atlanta. 
Current global mHealth opportunity is $50B: According to recent report from McKinsey & Company, “opportunities” in the global mobile healthcare market are worth about $50 billion in 2010. The consulting firm pegs the US mHealth opportunity at $20 billion, or nearly half the global market. McKinsey estimated the market opportunities after conducting a survey of 3,000 consumers — 500 from each of the following countries: Brazil, USA, Germany, South Africa, India and China.
Continua: FDA believes new laws not needed: The Continua Health Alliance, a consortium of more than 220 organizations working to enable interoperability between personal medical devices, noted in a recent newsletter that the FDA believes new laws for connected health device regulations are neither likely nor needed. The revelation came after Continua hosted a pow-wow with industry folks at FDA head quarters last month — MobiHealthNews stopped by, too.
GE, Intel and Mayo team up on home monitoring: Three major consumer and health industry brand names are coming together to launch a telehealth home monitoring project: GE, Intel and the Mayo Clinic. Each organization has a deep bench and history in the health vertical, covering different segments of the market.
Brian Dolan is editor of MobiHealthNews, the emerging wireless health industry’s daily monitor.
