Brian T. Horowitz

Motorola has unveiled a new push-to-talk mobile device to withstand the drops and spills of a hospital environment. The Motorola MC75A0-HC Rugged Healthcare Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA) allows doctors and nurses to enter patient data at bedside in a hospital environment where despite their presence in large numbers, ordinary smartphone connections are difficult to maintain […]

Ericsson has unveiled what the company calls the world’s first mobile broadband module at 21 Mbps (megabits per second), the HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) F5521gw. Twice the size of a quarter, the Ericsson F5521gw supports download speeds of up to 21 Mbps and upload speeds of 5.76 Mbps. Ericsson introduced the new broadband module at the […]

Jonathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has formed a health care IT firm with the corporate name of Informed Biometry and the Website name Picture of Health. Schwartz, who is also CEO of the new company, told eWEEK in a Sept. 13 e-mail that the corporate name will “fade into the background.” The […]

A new report by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals that 40 percent of Americans would pay for a mobile device to keep track of their vital signs and send the data remotely to their doctor. PwC made the presentation called “Healthcare Unwired” on Sept. 8 at the mHealth Initiative conference in San Diego. The consulting firm […]

Two groups in the United Kingdom, City University London and The Stroke Association advocacy group, are testing computer-based technology running on the Nintendo Wii and Apple iPad to allow stroke victims suffering from the aphasia language impediment to communicate using gestures. The project is called Gesture Recognition in Aphasia Therapy (GReAT) and will run for […]

The Food and Drug Administration is looking into whether smartphone apps that allow patients to monitor their vital signs wirelessly should earn FDA approval before implementation. Bradley Merrill Thompson, an attorney with law firm Epstein, Becker & Green, who studies health care issues, told GigaOM that the FDA is keeping an eye on app stores […]

In a new report, consulting firm Frost & Sullivan is predicting revenue for electronic medical records in ambulatory medical facilities (outpatient doctor’s offices) will double in 2012 and then fall beginning in 2013 due to market saturation and falling prices. The volume of products and number of users may continue to increase, however. Frost & […]

The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has released a report showing how mobile technology can improve people’s health and reduce health-care costs. The company describes electronic medical records on mobile devices as the “killer app” that will affect the health care industry. “The personal health record embedded in mobile communication devices – mPHR – is […]

At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung’s mobile communications division, told journalists he expects the company’s mobile business to reach a “double-digit” profit margin during the third quarter of 2010. Samsung company executives also expect to ship 25 million smartphones in the same quarter. The company has high expectations […]

The Federal Communications Commission has begun a public inquiry (PDF) to get additional feedback on rules governing network neutrality, delaying a decision on how to regulate wireless providers’ ability to curb activity on their networks. While the FCC’s decision to hold additional hearings has frustrated net neutrality advocates, industry associations, such as CTIA, applauded the […]