The mobile device craze is impacting healthcare just as much as the general public. And keeping up with the latest technology is a challenge for everyone. HIMSS12 offers a wide range of sessions on all the issues related to mobile and telehealth, including access, applications and security.

Being a leading edge kind of person, you've gone out & bought a tablet. Now what? You bring your tablet into the hospital to talk to patients, only to find that the charts have been updated. Oops. That's when you realize you need help managing your newfound Tablet Anger. 

This session will explore the fast moving mobile health space. It will be accentuated by real-world examples that punctuate the idea that the phones and devices are only part of the successful equation of people, process, technology and organization that define the mHealth ecosystem.

Discover how to make your application as mobile as the healthcare professionals who use it. We'll cover: mobile devices and meaningful use stages 2 and 3; what CDS data you need now; formatting and delivery for mobile devices; and clinical decision support integration. Learn from the experts who have developed for every mobile platform.

United Health Services Hospitals designed and implemented a handheld solution for clinician use. Installing this system on clinician-owned mobile devices has increased physician acceptance of EHR while minimizing computer requirements.

Leveraging expertise in EHR and enterprise mobile technology, Agilex is leading the secure deployment of applications that access and update critical patient health information across various data sources providing physicians information at the point-of-care.

Carestream Health (Booth 2614) is expanding its Carestream Vue for Cloud Services with mobile imaging data access from its Vue Motion zero footprint viewer and higher levels of encryption and security through use of the Intel Xeon processor E7 family. These updates will be demonstrated at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition, Feb. 20-24, in Las Vegas.

Peake Healthcare Innovations, a joint venture between Harris and Johns Hopkins Medicine, has launched PeakeSecure cloud archiving platform, a managed service that seeks to assist healthcare providers with storing and managing medical images and related healthcare information.