New, "Super-Sized" 4-Day Cloud Computing Bootcamp is a brief introduction to cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics. Solutions built around these topics require a sound cloud computing infrastructure to be successful while assisting customers harvest real benefits from this transformational change that is happening in the IT ecosystem.| By Kevin Benedict | Article Rating: |
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The number of mHealth devices sold this year represents a 37 percent increase over 2011 figures and it is estimated the market will continue to expand for at least the next five years. From 2011 to 2017, ABI Research predicts the market for mHealth products will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 40 percent. Read Original Content
CVS Caremark Corp. is beefing up its mobile commerce site and smartphone app to help customers better manage their health. The new enhancements to the CVS mobile site include an immunization scheduler. Read Original Content
A quarter of Americans trust symptom checker websites, symptom check mobile apps or home-based vital sign monitors as much as they do their doctors, according to a recent U.S. survey commissioned by Royal Philips Electronics. Read Original Content
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Rep. Michael Honda has introduced a bill that would establish an Office of Wireless Health at the Food and Drug Administration in order to coordinate with other federal agencies and industry on how to develop a consistent and reasonable approach on emerging mobile health technologies. Read Original Content
A slew of new devices leveraging improved connectivity to mobile handsets have fueled strong growth for wearable wireless mHealth devices in 2012. By the end of the year, nearly 30 million devices will have shipped, up 37 percent on 2011 shipments. Read Original Content
With the rising adoption of smartphones by physicians in the U.S., the mHealth market is growing immensely. On the back of these factors, the mHealth market is anticipated to grow at an annual growth rate of nearly 19 percent during 2012-2014. Read Original Content
AT&T has launched new cloud-based remote patient monitoring technology that is delivered as software-as-a-service from Ericsson, HealthTechZone recently reported. Read Original Content
Nearly one in three cell phone owners (31 percent) use their devices to find health or medical information online, up from 17 percent just two years ago, according to a nationwide survey sponsored by the Pew Research Center. Read Original Content
It’s estimated that by 2017 mobile healthcare, or mHealth, will be worth more than $23 billion worldwide. The United States is expected to make up nearly a quarter of all mHealth spending at that time with $5.9 billion. Read Original Content
A pilot program at Central Indiana Beacon Community that focuses on remote video conferencing between nurses and discharged hospital patients cut readmissions by a dramatic 75 percent, according to Alan Snell, chief medical informatics officer at Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health. Read Original Content
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The world’s first vendor neutral marketplace for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud computing is being built. This marketplace fills the current gap in the value chain by offering standardized products and by addressing the needs of providers and consumers of cloud computing resources. Zimory is the technical partner for the settlement process of this project.
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Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
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Ross Brouse is the COO and President of Solar VPS. He is a tr...
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