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  In Pictures: 10 examples of mobile health around the world

• Larry Page wants to see your medical records

  By Martyn Williams | 16 May, 2013 01:57

  A day after breaking an almost year-long silence on a medical condition that had affected the way he speaks, Google co-founder Larry Page said Wednesday that people should be more open about their medical histories.

• Health care robot brings experts to bedside

  By Nick Barber | 22 April, 2013 20:57

  A health care robot developed by iRobot and InTouch Health allows doctors who may be thousands of miles away to interact with patients at their bedsides.

• Miami hospital turns to Wi-Fi triangulation for smartphone mapping app

  By Matt Hamblen | 03 April, 2013 19:14

  Miami Children's Hospital recently launched a free iPhone app that uses Wi-Fi triangulation to help patients and their families navigate through the center.

• WebMD, Qualcomm build consumer cloud for mobile health data

  By Lucas Mearian | 20 March, 2013 19:37

  WebMD and Qualcomm Life are collaborating on a cloud offering that will allow consumers with mobile health monitoring devices to sync their data to the cloud, where it can be shared with healthcare providers.

• Lack of healthcare IT workers slows tech progress

  By Lucas Mearian | 12 March, 2013 21:22

  The lack of IT workers has forced healthcare to recruit IT help from other industries, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, which says systems and data integration skills are the most sought-after.

• Qualcomm learning how to incubate new technologies

  By Stephen Lawson | 11 March, 2013 20:22

  Qualcomm has a big, well-funded research and development operation, but its program for commercializing new innovations is still a learning experience for the wireless chip maker.

• AI found better at diagnosing, treating patients, than doctors

  By Lucas Mearian | 12 February, 2013 23:46

  New research by Indiana University shows using artificial intelligence to understand and predict the outcomes of medical treatment could reduce health care costs by more than 50% while also improving patient outcomes by nearly the same amount.

• Nurses turning to un-authorized smartphones to meet data demands

  By John Cox | 21 December, 2012 20:07

  A new study finds that more than two-thirds of nurses are using their personal smartphones for clinical communications. Yet 95% of nurses in the sample say hospital IT departments don't support that use for fear of security risks.

• Health-IT early adopters well-poised for big-data advances in clinical medicine

  By Fred O'Connor | 02 April, 2013 15:21

  Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S. medical providers remain sluggish, with the industry slow to embrace the big-data movement.

• Six innovations that will change healthcare

  By Brian Eastwood | 18 February, 2013 19:48

  When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation. These six examples from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Future of Health and Wellness Conference could change the way patients interact with hospitals, physicians and each other.

• Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control

  By Maria Korolov | 26 November, 2012 05:53

  When workplace computers moved beyond command-line interfaces to the mouse-and-windows-based graphical user interface, that was a major advance in usability. And the command line itself was a big improvement over the punch cards and tape that came before.