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More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. The 44-page report, "Health Check: Key Players in Mobile Healthcare," written by analyst Denise Culver, provides an overview of the emerging mHealth market, focusing on various conventional, hybrid and new technologies that are creating new business models.

The iPad has made its debut at a hospital in Israel where doctors have been given the technology to use on- and off-site.Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak (MYMC) equipped its physicians with the latest iPad version 4.2, customized for use in Hebrew. The technology allows clinicians instant touch-screen access to patient records and medical information via secure password-protected Internet. MYMC's IT team has programmed the Apple iPad to interact with the Microsoft Chameleon program used by the hospital.

A program that uses smartphones to transmit ECGs from the ambulance to the cath lab at the University Hospital in Newark, N.J., is showing improvement in patient outcomes.The program, called STAT-MI, is made possible through a $100,000 grant made by the Verizon Foundation to the Foundation of University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ),

Optimism is prevalent in the healthcare IT sector, where 77 percent of venture capitalists expect investment to increase, according to results of the 2011 Venture View predictions survey, conducted by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Dow Jones VentureSource.

Six technologies have been named by analysts as having the potential to improve workflow and communication for nurse, while boosting patient care. The six technologies were highlighted in the article, "Beyond E-Health Records: Technologies That Enhance Care Delivery," written by Fran Turisco, research principal, and Jared Rhoads, senior research analyst, for Emerging Practices in CSC's Healthcare Group.