An angency under the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted by cellphones as potentially carcinogenic to humans.

The eight-week trial of a mobile health monitoring solution is set to commence in Singapore with four companies collaborating on the project.

The Australian government website reported that $51 million will be invested into 35 capital projects in Queensland to improve clinical education and training.

Three of the five finalists selected by IBM from 150 start-up companies to participate in its SmartCamp event in Austin, Texas were developing tools to improve personal health.

What if the computing system that can beat humans in a game of Jeopardy could also be used in healthcare for diagnosis and treatment of diseases? The idea is not too farfetched as a research effort is now underway to deeply integrate speech recognition and imaging technologies with a computer's ability to understand the meaning and context of human language.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) of hospitals plan to significantly increase spending on IT in 2011, results of a survey done by analyst firm Ovum said.

SAS recently unveiled a cross-disciplinary Center for Health Analytics and Insights that is expected to drive innovation and collaboration among organizations to develop deeper insights into medical care.

Orange Business Services, the enterprise communications arm of France Telecom, has entered into a partnership with the government of Bhutan and Regal Information Technology to deliver real time healthcare services to the people of Bhutan.

IT and healthcare professionals see the vast potential of technology-centric patient care but there is much debate on how innovations can be introduced to promote widespread adoption and better quality care. In a recent Health IT conference organized by Questex Media in Singapore, technologists and healthcare professionals met to discuss the challenges of transforming healthcare through technology.

Once in a while, corporate executives don't really mind losing their hair; not if it can help raise funds for childhood cancer. In a recent head-shaving event, executives from storage firm NetApp raised USS$130,000 for the cancer research fund of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and matched dollar for dollar by the Singapore government.