Eric Wicklund
With the proposed $995 million purchase of Seattle-based SonoSite, FujiFilm looks to expand into the portable ultrasound market, which is seeing double-digit growth in the emergency medicine, orthopedics and home-based care fields.
The merge of smaller business units with California-based Robert Bosch Healthcare will enable the company to consolidate its successful telehealth programs and add a line of personal alarm and nurse call products designed for those living at home or in assisted living facilities.
The global non-profit, a co-organizer of last week's mHealth Summit, is looking to kick off 2012 with an aggressive agenda.
The grants, designated for 100 projects from Alaska to the Northern Mariana Islands, include funding to equip a mobile medical clinic on an icebreaker serving four remote Maine islands.
The California-based developer of mobile health technology is sponsoring a three-continent study that tests its patient adherence and monitoring software in a home setting; the company also is launching a cloud-based service that hospitals can use for telemedicine projects, among others.
The eight recipients, announced at Tuesday's mHealth Summit, are developing or have developed mobile health-related projects to improve the health of women and children in developing or underserved parts of the world.
A spirited session at Tuesday's summit questions whether the doctor or the patient should be the catalyst for driving emerging mHealth technologies into the mainstream.
The competition seeks innovative wireless ideas to solve pressing global concerns in such areas as healthcare and the environment.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and West Wireless Health Institute Vice Chairman Eric Topol took to the stage for opening keynotes Monday at the mHealth Summit, and each said the future of healthcare remains tied to mobile technology.
HIMSS' 1st Annual Mobile Technology Survey indicates everyone is using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, but management is lagging behind in developing policies for device management.