Kaiser Permanente has announced the launch of its latest mobile initiative — a full featured “Health Management” app for iOS.
Like its other mobile offerings, the new app allows members to access many of the same tools already available via its “My Health Manager” tool on kp.org. Â Members can email their providers, check lab test results, order prescription refills, manage appointments and more — all from their iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. Â This latest move comes on the heals of Kaiser making the largest electronic health record system in the world accessible via smartphones with the launch of its mobile-optimized website m.kp.org.

For those in the healthcare industry, the annual HIMSS conference is noted as one of the largest and most influential health-focused events around. Â For 2012, the event drew more than 37,000 attendees — breaking all previous records for attendance and exhibitor space.
ATA 2012, the largest trade show dedicated entirely to telehealth, telemedicine, mHealth and remote healthcare technologies announced today that it’s grown even larger for this year’s event — now boasting nearly 200 vendors and showcasing thousands of telemedicine products and services — many of which debuting for the first time.
It’s been revealed that more than $439M has been poured into 70 different Web 2.0 healthcare startups that develop mobile health apps and tools for online social networking and collaboration in 2011.
With a lot of ambiguity surrounding how SMS can be properly implemented in healthcare messaging, the folks at mHIMSS have produced an excellent
In a rather interesting move, it’s been revealed that Republican House members are urging both the FDA and FCC to move faster in approving mobile medical apps.


