Sarasota, Florida, April 28, 2011 – As tablets and smart phones evolve and make their way into hospitals, many health care executives are working to develop a successful mobile-integration strategy. St. Joseph, Mo.-based Heartland Regional Medical Center recently implemented Voalté’s iPhone solution, which leverages the hospital’s disparate systems onto a single communication platform.

Reston, Virginia, April 11, 2011—Ekahau Inc., the worldwide leader in high performance Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), announced that Ekahau RTLS customers can now use their iPhone or Android smart phones to extend location tracking capabilities to areas outside their defined wireless local area network (WLAN).

Danville, Pennsylvania, April 6, 2011—Five innovative and leading health systems, each of whom are pioneers in the use of electronic medical records for their patients, announce a new initiative to securely exchange electronic health data, with the first data exchange planned in the next year.

Lake Forest, Illinois, April 1, 2011—Hospira, a leading provider of clinical information and medication delivery technologies, announced the launch of its enhanced TheraDoc™ clinical surveillance system, used by hospitals to help improve patient safety and prevent adverse events such as healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

March 25, 2011—The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced an open public comment period on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015 (“the Plan”). The Plan reflects ONC’s strategy, developed in collaboration with other federal partners, over the next five years for realizing Congress and the Administration’s health IT agenda.

Toronto, March 22, 2011—Healthcare professionals now have a solution for securely and remotely communicating with patients via mobile devices and tablets, thanks to the Clinical Communicator application announced by Diversinet Corp.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 14, 2011—Thomson Reuters and Zynx Health announced that Thomson Reuters Micromedex® will be integrated into ZynxOrder evidence-based order sets.