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With its investment in CardioNexus Corporation, a portfolio company of Houston's Fairway Medical Technologies, Panasonic Corporation of North America has signaled its plans to become a player in the increasingly important field of personalized preventive medicine.The investment follows an earlier Panasonic initiative to establish a presence in the world's largest medical complex, Houston's Texas Medical Center - with which Fairway Medical Technologies is a close partner.

Nimble, a new comprehensive EMR application designed and developed specifically for the iPad, hit the market last month with the aim of allowing docs to provide meaningful care - at the point of care.St. Louis-based ClearPractice, a provider of web-based electronic medical record and revenue cycle management software for ambulatory care physicians, worked with Apple to optimize the app's interface "to create a new user experience for docs," said ClearPractice President Joel Andersen.

"The future physician of America" is a tech savvy one - one who reaches for an iPhone to choose clinical references, and who expects to use an EHR when he or she begins practicing, according to a recent survey of medical students.The fifth annual Future Physicians of America survey, sponsored by Epocrates, polled more than 700 medical students who use the company's software, seeking their opinions on a range of topics impacting the medical profession. Approximately 80 percent of survey respondents will be practicing physicians in less than two years.

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With the increasing use of electronic health records in California and across the nation, Carl Elkins, regional CIO for Adventist Health, recognizes the value of clinicians, patients and visitors being able to communicate on mobile phones anywhere in the hospital.Simi Valley Hospital, one of 17 hospitals in the Adventist Health system, recently tapped Extenet for a Distributed Antenna System, for its 144-bed patient care tower.

The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults, according to a new report by Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Pew Internet Project's latest survey of American adults, conducted in association with the California HealthCare Foundation, found that 85 percent use a cell phone. Of those: