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The San Diego-based telecom says a project that brought smartphones and tablets to roughly 200 doctors and nurses in a remote part of the African nation met with overwhelming success in giving them clinical decision support at the point of care.

The Knight Foundation and four healthcare industry giants are offering up to $2 million for innovative technological projects that harness data and information for community health. mHealth tools and concepts should play a major role in many of the ideas.

The new incubator, launched by Palomar Health and Qualcomm Life, will develop new mHealth apps and platforms for Google's augmented-reality glasses.

A St. Louis-based group of high-risk obstetricians has tripled the number of consultations they've done during the first half of this year through the use of telemedicine technology.