iPhone to aid clinical decisions

Wave Medical has expanded its decision to support applications for general practitioners, nurses, emergency doctors and medical students to the iPhone and iPod Touch, states MTB Europe.

With thousands of international drug names, dosing and medical calculators, disease profiles, illustrations and a powerful drug interactions generator, Wave Medical's fully integrated content enables quick navigation through the clinical decision process.

Heavy textbooks are no longer the only reference physicians consult in their daily clinical decision routine.

Honeywell has introduced the Dolphin 9900hc mobile computer with a disinfectant-ready housing, says British Journal of Healthcare Computing.

It is specifically designed to mobilise patient safety in environments where continuous cleaning of the device is required.

Healthcare organisations can reduce the risk of spreading pathogens by selecting a mobile computing solution for point-of-care applications that can be quickly and easily disinfected.

Mindtree plans to address the lucrative healthcare market for technology solutions with its newly-developed telemedicine boxes, as the company seeks to sustain its growth at a time when the market for software services is seeing lower demand, reports Economic Times.

It has already designed a prototype of the telemedicine box, and is currently in talks with several equipment manufacturers, including Sanmina-SCI and Flextronics, for releasing them in the market this year.

“Indian government has plans to invest Rs4500-crore (R7.7 billion) under national rural health plan, where it will build 60 000 kiosks,” said Sridhar Perepa, who is heading the healthcare practice and manages R&D services at MindTree.