AirWatch-Homecare: AirWatch, which offers enterprise mobile device management software inked a deal with Homecare Homebase to offer the home healthcare company’s workers AirWatch’s Device Link technology to track, monitor and manage point-of-care mobile devices. Device Link is already used on 2,500 home healthcare professionals’ mobile devices in the U.S. More
Google Wave-Google Health: We have written about the potential Google Wave has to change the way Google Health works — here’s one video that illustrates some of that potential: Video and Article
A “clean” list of iPhone medical apps: Tired of sifting through the hundreds of medical iPhone apps to determine which ones are actually useful? Not interested in seeing another list that includes the iPee app? SoftwareAdvice put in the time to separate out the bogus apps and listed more than 700 of the more useful medical apps in a recent feature. Article
iTriage in the wild: At least one hospital has integrated iTriage’s iPhone app into a multi-platform marketing campaign that lets people know wait times for the facility’s emergency room. No iPhone? No problem — any phone with SMS-enabled can receive text messages about wait times, too. Don’t own a mobile phone? There’s also a billboard that displays wait times in real-time. More
Cinterion-Diabetech: Cinterion Wireless Modules, a cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communication module developer has teamed up with Diabetech, a developer of patient-centric health care programs to create the fourth generationGlucoMON platform. They call it “the world’s easiest-to-use wireless diabetes management system.” Check out the full press release here for more.
Beetles, Levis, mHealth: New report from UK researcher Peter Kruger, whose firm is called Wireless Healthcare, came out today: “There are already up to 30 million potential alpha daughters, providing some level of care for their parents in the US today. mHealth could become the last big consumer market created by the sixties generation.” That’s an interesting hook, but the press release does not include any other new metrics — it does, however, predict mobile health will follow on the success of Levi jeans and VW Beetles… hmm. More