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Mobile safety finding on its way
Sydney Morning Herald
DEVRA DAVIS, a long-ignored evangelist on the health dangers of mobile phones, finally feels she has been heard. As soon as this week, the US Congress is expected to reveal that a year-long investigation by the Government Accountability Office has found ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Travis County mental health crisis unit seeking to expand
Austin American-Statesman
The Mobile Crisis Outreach Team was created five years ago by Travis County and Austin Travis County Integral Care, which provides mental health services for uninsured and low-income people. Every day, 24 hours a day, two-member teams from the ...
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UND Awarded Grant for Mobile Health Education Simulator
KFYR-TV
UND Awarded Grant for Mobile Health Education Simulator. | 8/3/2012. The University of North Dakota has received a multi-million dollar grant to help bring mobile simulation education to rural areas. The $4.98 million grant, awarded by The Leona M. and ...
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Mobile tech is a natural fit for ACOs, experts say
TechTarget
With the number of medical practices transitioning to accountable care organizations (ACO), experts say the need for patient engagement has never been greater. Groups are increasingly looking tomobile health, or mHealth, technologies to achieve this kind ...
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Safeguarding Patient-Generated Health Information Created or Shared Through ...
JD Supra (press release)
Mobile health technologies are increasingly becoming a valuable tool for improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare. A current example of work in this area involves The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Project HealthDesign, which is exploring use ...
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Nurses, Midlevel Clinicians Online More Than Docs
InformationWeek
Registered nurses (RNs), advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), and physician assistants (PAs) spend substantially more time online in their professional duties than do physicians, according to a new Manhattan Research survey. Specifically, RNs ...
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India is the Second-Largest Mobile Phone user in World
Invest in India
India is the second-largest mobile phone user with over 900 million users in the world. It accounted for over 10% of the world's online population in 2011. This was stated by Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare in London today.
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Procured Health Nabs $1.1M From Bessemer, Athena Health Founder To Help ...
TechCrunch
He covers startups, music, social, mobilehealth, and education. You can reach him at rip[at]techcrunch[dot]com → Learn More. Screen shot 2012-08-03 at 10.42.59 AM. Procured Health, a startup that aims to help hospitals better discover, evaluate and adopt quality medical devices, is today announcing that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding from a flock of angels and VCs. Investors in the startup's first round included Zimmerman Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Fidelity Biosciences, NaviMed Capital's ...
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'Digital pill' with chip inside gets FDA green light
CNN
Proteus Digital Health's monitoring system includes a mobile app, pills with embedded chips, and a stick-on patch that tracks your body data. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Ever wonder if you remembered to take your pills this morning? A medical tech startup ...
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