Social networking will play a major role in an emerging healthcare delivery model that also explores the role of mobile technology in supporting collaborative teamwork, a new report from IDC Health Insights said.

The Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have formed a strategic alliance to develop solutions for tackling global health issues, including vaccines, nutrition, maternal and child health, and infectious disease control.

Motorola Solutions (MSI) will soon bring to market a number of local mobile healthcare solutions together with its partners, as a result of its collaboration with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA).

The Medical City is the first tertiary care hospital in the Philippines to use a cloud-based enterprise productivity tool for its operations.

MyGlucoHealth wireless blood glucose meter that uses Qualcomm Life’s 2net Platform makes it easier for patients to accurately record and monitor blood sugar levels.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), a non-profit organization that connects physicians and other healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries, has started using IBM Web analytics to mine through information for patient treatment and make them more easily accessible.

GE Healthcare and AirStrip Technologies recently unveiled an application that makes patient monitoring information available on doctors' iPhones and iPads.

New solutions developed by university teams could soon be harnessed to help manage the growing global problem of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as asthma, diabetes, stroke and cancer.

HP has announced a partnership with healthcare software provider Central Logic to improve patient care and efficiency in hospitals.

A GPS locator device and monitoring system is now helping track US Alzheimers patients who have wandered from their homes or healthcare facilities.