Mobile

Are you waiting for EHR vendors to develop smartphone and iPad-friendly applications, so you can work from home, the hospital, or a coffee shop? Your wait may finally be ending, but there's much to know before taking your mobile EHR for a spin.

How physicians and patients are using mHealth, and why payers are encouraging it, across the globe.

If people are willing to download games to their personal devices, why not create home healthcare monitoring systems for the same ease-of-use?

While there’s some hesitation to embrace EHRs, a new report shows that physicians are grabbing up tablets, smartphones, and laptop computers faster than researchers imagined. And it’s easy to see why.

Thanks to new federal initiatives and the increased use of smart phones and tablets, more physicians are communicating with each other while on the go.

As the market for EHRs has grown, so has the market for mobile voice dictation technology.

Andrew Watson of the Center for Connected Medicine discusses his own use of telemedicine at his practice and the overall benefits of mobile health.

In this video, Adam Greene discusses how to balance promotion of mobile health devices while still being aware of privacy and security issues.

The "mHealth" industry has exploded, and smartphones, tablets, and apps are the buzzwords du jour. Trying to figure out how mobile devices and mHealth solutions can work for your practice can be overwhelming, but it’s crucial to stay current. We tell you how to get plugged in.

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