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A well-known developer of mobile applications for nurses and clinicians in the hospital setting has launched a platform designed to help administrators manage mobile devices throughout the building or campus.Voalté, based in Sarasota, Fla., is teaming up with AirWatch, an Atlanta-based developer of smartphone security and mobile device management solutions, to launch Voalté Connect, giving administrators a platform to deploy, use and scale MDM solutions for enterprise-wide deployments.

University of Utah engineers, who have built wireless networks that "see" through walls, now are aiming the technology at a new goal: noninvasively measuring the breathing of surgery patients, adults with sleep apnea and babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

The world market for telehealth is set to exceed $1 billion by 2016 and could jump to $6 billion in 2020, according to a new report from InMedica, the medical electronics market research group within IMS Research.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new recommendations and initiatives on Monday to support health text messaging and mobile health (mHealth) programs.

Mobile phones are making their presence felt in healthcare, where physicians are using them to access health records and health facilities.Two separate announcements this week highlight new methods for authentication. Imprivata and PhoneFactor have announced a reseller partnership that will merge the former's OneSign authentication and access management platform with the latter's phone-based multi-factor authentication service. Meanwhile, HID Global is adding iCLASS digital authentication to Blackberry smartphones using Near Field Communications (NFC) capabilities.