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InformationWeek Selects AirStrip OB as a Vital Healthcare App

InformationWeek, the event sponsor, calls the ‘Mobile App Smackdown’ competition a celebration of the most transformative healthcare apps now available. The event will take place as part of a Healthcare IT Leadership Forum in New York City July 12.

InformationWeek selected AirStrip OB as one of the top five apps for the competition. More than 50 nominees were initially considered. A panel of editors, healthcare practitioners, and IT experts will select a finalist from among the top five. The panel’s criteria includes weighing which app has the most potential to help provide quality care, strengthen clinician workflow, and keep physicians and patients in closer contact.

AirStrip Executive Vice President Bruce Brandes is scheduled to attend the event and demo AirStrip OB, which is now in use by a fast-growing number of obstetricians at labor and delivery units across the country. AirStrip OB gives physicians the unprecedented ability to monitor the vital waveform data of their patients, including fetal heartbeat and maternal contraction patterns, in virtual real time on their smartphone or tablet.

“We are honored to be recognized for a solution that physicians tell us is fundamentally improving their ability to care for patients,” Brandes said. “Our mission is to support meaningful mobility, using native mobile technology to securely transform and deliver visually compelling data in real time that result in improved workflow and stronger, more informed clinical decision-making - anytime, anywhere.”

AirStrip OB and AirStrip PATIENT MONITORING are the only US Food and Drug Administration-cleared mobile applications that can send virtual real-time waveforms to mobile devices. AirStrip PATIENT MONITORING is available for virtually the entire hospital environment, delivering waveforms including cardiac, SPO2, ventilator, arterial line and other critical information for patients in areas such as ICU, CCU, PACU, OR, ED and telemetry, among others.

The other solution in the AirStrip suite, AirStrip CARDIOLOGY, sends digital, enhanced ECGs from pre-hospital and inpatient cardiology care settings to the physician’s mobile device.

These solutions allow physicians to receive critical patient data virtually anywhere, anytime the mobile device is connected to Wi-Fi or a cellular signal.

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Colin Leinster

FORTUNE — The hottest new U.S. industry right now is cellular telephony — phones in cars. In early July cellular telephone systems were operating in eight major U.S. metropolitan areas, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington-Baltimore, and Chicago, and they are being switched on at the rate of one a week in other cities. 1990 the handful of subscribers chatting away today on the expressways in those eight cities will have grown to nearly a million — even on the unlikely assumption that costs of subscribing will not have dropped from lofty introductory levels. But that scarcely measures the potential for a cellular explosion.

Cellular telephones will be available in most of the top 30 metropolitan areas in the U.S. the end of the year. Another 60 markets should be hooked up in the ensuing decade. According to some estimates, cellular will be a $12-billion-a-year industry ten years from now-$4 billion in revenues from the calls that are made, $4 billion from sales of equipment to cellular telephone users, and $4 billion for antennas, computers, buildings, and other elements of the receiving and transmitting systems.

Worldwide expansion of cellular telephone systems could increase the industry’s girth manyfold. The Scandinavian countries and Japan have already hatched cellular systems, and their equipment manufacturers have leaped into the U.S. market. The investor eyeing this nascent industry is hardly confined to companies that seek to supply the service, which range from telephone company subsidiaries — Nynex, Ameritech, and their kin — to MCI, the Washington Post Co., and Western Union. Investors can also choose from an international menu of early starters among equipment suppliers. Oki Advanced Communications, the New Jersey based cellular subsidiary of Japan’s big Oki Telecom Group, vies with Motorola for first place among makers of cellular equipment. Sweden’s Ericsson recently scooped up a big contract for a Chicago system-an estimated $6 million. Other big players in the U.S. equipment market include AT&T, Tandy, and NEC.

The stocks of some manufacturing companies involved in cellular “went berserk” two years ago says John S. Bain, telecommunications analyst with Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Communications Systems Inc. of Dallas, which makes cellular equipment, saw its stock go from $14 to $40 a share; the price is now riding along at about $20 a share.-  Right now, Bain says, cellular “is a generally depressed marker.” The business takes huge investment and the payoff will take time.-  Lost of things could go wrong including threat that prices won’t drop fast enough to make a phone in the car as irresistible as it sounds. Another grim possibility is that cellular might prove so popular that emerging systems would be temporarily swamped, driving potential users away.

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