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10 mobile health best practices from the Department of Homeland Security

By Brian Dolan 03:13 am May 22, 2012

Last week the US Department of Homeland Security issued a policy paper that highlights the various security and privacy concerns that surround the use of mobile devices in healthcare and connected medical devices. DHS paints a rather grim picture of the current trend, including a warning against BYOD: "If IT administrators don’t implement the correct mobile device for the right job or are slow to...

Roundup: Sproxil in India; Dr Chrono HITECH

By Brian Dolan 09:58 am June 22, 2011

Dr Chrono iPad EHR Sproxil goes to India: Sproxil announced on Tuesday the launch of their Mobile Product Authentication (MPA) service in India, which enables consumers to verify the authenticity of a pharmaceutical by texting a unique code on the drug label to the manufacturers. Sproxil previously established mobile-based anti-counterfeit services in parts of Africa and has already sold...