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The not-for-profit Sutter Health network, in Sacramento, Calif., is helping its patients connect not only with its resources, but also with doctors, clinics and ERs nationwide, using a free application that they can download on their smartphones. Sutter Health is using technology called iTriage, a healthcare information software product introduced by Healthagen, LLC . iTriage was developed in 2008 by emergency room physicians, Peter Hudson, MD, who is co-founder and CEO of Healthagen and Wayne Guerra MD, who is the company's co-founder and chief medical officer.

The Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is launching a one-year program that will use a text messaging platform to increase medication adherence in its teenage heart transplant patients. The hospital is working with CareSpeak Communications Inc., a privately held mobile health company in New Jersey, which is providing the two-way technology system that will send the medication alerts to the patients.