8. Google Health: The future of healthcare is mobile
Unlike Microsoft, which has worked with a number of industry partners to connect wireless health devices to its personal health platform, HealthVault, and to make it accessible via mobile phones, Google seemed to be less aggressive when it came to mobilizing its Google Health offering. There was a time we noted that Google Health’s mobile strategy was allowing users to print out a copy of their health information and keep it in their wallet. That may be why this interview with Google Health Product Manager Roni Zeiger proved to be so popular. Zeiger agrees that mobile is a big opportunity and Google does plan to leverage the mobile platform soon. We still look forward to Google Health’s arrival in wireless health. 2010? Read The Original
9. Apple, Epic team up for mobile EHR pilot
Despite its demo with LifeScan earlier in the year, Apple’s iPhone only served as a platform for other companies to develop applications for — the company had not directly been known to be involved with wireless health pilots or services. That is until the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Apple was working with Epic Systems to integrate the iPhone into the EMR vendor’s system at a Stanford hospital. Rumor has it that the resulting product could be announced in January 2010. Read The Original
10. Interview: Dr. Hodge, the first iPhone Doctor
Dr. Natalie Hodge refers to herself as the “first iPhone doctor,” which, if this article’s popularity is any indication, proved to be a sticky idea. Hodge’s start-up Personal Pediatrics aims to equip a fleet of self-starter pediatricians in major metro areas with iPhones, cloud-based practice software and the marketing know-how to court new parents, families and corporate health programs alike. The company’s plan points to a growing trend of doctors returning to what was once a mainstay of the profession: the house call. Hodge has since moved to the Silicon Valley area to build out her team and roster of clients. Read The Original
11. Qualcomm pulls the plug on LifeComm
This is perhaps one of the most important stories of 2009 for the wireless health industry, not just because it marked the shuttering of an initiative that inspired many start-ups to work in the wireless health industry, but also because it was a sign that the industry had grown beyond its need for that initiative. MobiHealthNews broke the news that Qualcomm had decided to pull the plug on LifeComm, a start-up four years in the making that planned to be a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) for wireless health services. Qualcomm realized that wireless operators would be willing to carry these services now — back in 2005 they would not mostly because of liability concerns. Since news broke that LifeComm’s partners would form their own separate companies, telecom carriers including Verizon and Vodafone each announced their own healthcare business units. Read The Original
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