The California Poison Control System (CPCS) is the largest single provider of poison control services in the United States. As a result, it’s no surprise that the organization is consistently relying on mobile solutions to better inform and protect the masses when it comes to a wide variety of potentially serious if not life-threatening dangers.

On Wednesday, the CPCS launched what is being called a “groundbreaking” bilingual digital health project that puts teaching tools onto the mobile devices of farm workers and other community health professionals.

The Pesticide Safety Project provides safety information primarily through narrative videos and encourages reporting of pesticide exposures for farm workers and others who may be exposed at work or in the home.

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As the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. today, Verizon is looking for myriad ways to leverage it’s expansive network to exert a greater impact across a wider array of industries.

In recent years, healthcare has become increasingly more important to Verizon and the reason why is patently obvious.

“When you think of Verizon, you think of our wireless network. But we have a $6 billion health care practice and a chief medical officer,” says Verizon managing principal of connected health care solutions Nancy Green. “We are moving and enabling the business of health care so others can innovate. We have experts on compliance and security, and startups can use the size and scope and scale of Verizon to make a difference.”

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Freshly published data and corresponding projections from MarketsandMarkets indicates that the global healthcare IT market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7.0% to reach $56.7 billion by 2017 from $40.4 billion in 2012.

Factors ranging from a spike in incidents of chronic disorders, to the pressure to reduce healthcare costs are responsible for driving this anticipated growth, the report indicates.

North America (U.S. and Canada) commanded the highest share of the healthcare information technology market due to firm government support in terms of investment and incentives, growing demand of integrated healthcare IT system to achieve high return on investment, enhanced patient consumerism for quality care and safety, and rise in aging population.

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Some parents love the idea. Others find it creepy. But regardless of where your opinion falls, the headlines this week are full of reports of the latest mobile innovation in caring for babies.

Huggies is attempting to make it easier for parents to know when it’s time to change their baby’s diaper by way of mobile technology.

If you haven’t heard about it yet, there’s a good chance you soon will.

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Based on the presented findings of the most recent National Progress Report and Safe-Rx Rankings by Surescripts, electronic prescriptions are becoming a fixture of modern medicine.

“This report confirms that e-prescribing’s success is changing health care by demonstrating that Health IT has become a critical component for the efficient delivery of medicine and cost-effective patient treatments,” the report reads.

E-prescribing, Surescripts affirms, continues to lead the way for full utilization of clinical information sharing throughout health care.

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According to an interesting new analysis from Keith Speights of The Motley Fool, Apple has “accidentally” revolutionized health care through the release of its popular iDevice products.

“It used to be said that an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” Speights asserts. “That could still be applicable, but the opposite is true for doctors and Apple. Physicians love their iPhones and iPads.”

A study by Manhattan Research in 2011 found that 75% of physicians owned at least one Apple product. Vitera Healthcare’s 2012 survey of health-care professionals backed up this high number. The company’s study found that 60% of respondents used an iPhone and 45% owned an iPad.

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According to the findings presented in a new report from Mercom Capital Group, venture capital investors can’t get enough of technology’s role in contemporary healthcare.

Business ventures involved in mHealth, telehealth, and virtually all areas of healthcare-focused technology are seeing a dramatic escalation of investor capital.

Venture capital (VC) funding in the HIT sector continued to gain momentum in another record quarter with $493 million raised. There were 104 funding deals in this quarter compared to 51 in the previous quarter. There were also 42 early stage deals this quarter compared to 14 in Q4 2012.

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