Healthcare

Overview

As never before, clinicians can practice medicine anywhere, at anytime, with instant access to the information and systems they need—right at their thumbs. Information technology enables your healthcare organizations to:

• Practice evidence-based medicine at the point of care
• Effectively utilize Electronic Health Records (EHR)
• Unleash the power of your human resources
• Reduce medical errors
• Control costs

BlackBerry® Business Solutions¹ provide healthcare organizations with hardware, software and applications to transform the way you deliver care. When you have the right technology in place, your teams not only work safer, they work smarter.

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Learn how organizations such as yours have benefited from BlackBerry Business Solutions

¹ Certain features outlined in this document require a minimum version of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server software, BlackBerry® Desktop Software, and/or BlackBerry® Device Software and may require additional third-party software or development for access to corporate applications. Installation and use of third-party products and services with Research In Motion (RIM) products and services may require one or more patent, trademark or copyright licenses in order to avoid infringement of the intellectual property rights of others. You are solely responsible for determining whether such third-party licenses are required and are responsible for acquiring any such licenses. To the extent that such intellectual property licenses may be required, RIM expressly recommends that you do not install or use these products and services until all such applicable licenses have been acquired by you or on your behalf. Your use of third-party software shall be governed by and subject to you agreeing to the terms of separate software licenses, if any, for those products or services. Any third-party products or services that are provided with RIM products and services are provided "as is". RIM makes no representation, warranty or guarantee whatsoever in relation to the third-party products and services and RIM assumes no liability whatsoever in relation to the third-party products and services even if RIM has been advised of the possibility of such damages or can anticipate such damages.

Products & Services

BlackBerry® Business Solutions are made up of customizable software and services because the best solution for your organization should be one based on your organization.

BlackBerry Smartphones

BlackBerry Business Solutions provide a choice of powerful smartphones and devices with BlackBerry® Connect™ software to best suit your needs.

BlackBerry Software

BlackBerry software manages the link between the BlackBerry smartphone and your business.

BlackBerry Partner Solutions

Learn more about drug guides, e-Rx, EMR access and other software solutions built for medical professionals with the help of a trusted third party who specializes in this application area. Take a look at the partner solutions available

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Partner Solutions

BlackBerry® Business Solutions for Clinicians (PDF)
Clinicians have access to 70+ enterprise-focused healthcare ISV solutions covering all categories. Click on the links below to preview the innovative solutions from each partner.

Collaboration

• Wallace Wireless

Medical Reference

• Epocrates, Inc.
• QxMD

Patient Data Management and Charge Capture

• IQMax

Telemetry and Results Viewing

• GlobeStar Systems Inc. (ConnexALL)
• mVisum

BlackBerry Business Solutions for Home Care (PDF)
Mobile solutions enable home care workers to do more visits and have less paperwork. Consumer health solutions enable patients to better manage their own conditions and share vital-sign data with their care providers.

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Customer Success

Organizations around the world have successfully implemented BlackBerry® Business Solutions. Take a look at some of these healthcare industry stories and see what BlackBerry Business Solutions can do for you.

Chronic Disease Management

• University Health Network – Mount Sinai Hospital
• Wilfrid Laurier University

Communication & Collaboration

• Champion EMS
• Dr. Brian A. Levine
• Trillium Health Centre
• University of Southern California – Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Decision Support and Patient Records

• California Transplant Donor Network
• Mercy Health Partners

Home Care Solutions 

• ParaMed
• Therapy Partners
• We Care Home Health Services

IT Solutions/Other  

• Otto Bock (OrthoRehab)

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Resource Library

Brochures

• BlackBerry® Business Solutions for Healthcare (PDF)
• BlackBerry Business Solutions for Home Care (PDF)

White Papers

• BlackBerry and HIPAA Guidelines (PDF)
• Wireless EMI in Healthcare Facilities (PDF)
• Wireless Home Care Solutions (PDF)

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News & Events

Stay up-to-date with the latest information on press releases, articles and events we’ll be attending in the coming months.

Awards

• Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry®, was recognized at the Gartner Healthcare Summit in San Diego for having the "Solution with the Greatest Market Potential". This award, voted for by leading healthcare IT executives from around the country attending the event, is a great recognition of the unique ability for BlackBerry solutions to address the requirements of the healthcare market

Press releases and articles

• NEW: Voalté application integrates hospital communications - Physicians and nurses can meet all of their point-of-care communication needs with a single application running on one device.
• NEW: Physician smartphone adoption said to top 80 percent by 2012 - "The BlackBerry smartphone still dominates among physicians and healthcare application developers," Monique Levy, Manhattan Research
• NEW: UPMC Puts EHRs on BlackBerry Smartphones - UPMC has introduced its first electronic health record (EHR) application for BlackBerry smartphones, providing physicians with mobile access to information such as patient's allergies, medications and lab tests.
• NEW: HIMSS Goes Mobile: Voalté on BlackBerry - "The BlackBerry platform is the leading choice in the healthcare sector," Trey Lauderdale, Vice President of Innovation of Voalté.
• NEW: mHealth--lets talk about reality, not just the potential - Security issues rank high on their list of concerns, particularly when it comes to transmitting health records over wireless networks.
• NEW: Smartphones - How are they being used? - Physicians everywhere are finding smartphones indispensable in the practice of medicine and in the management of their lives.
• NEW: UPMC Creates E-Health App for BlackBerry® smartphones - The University of Pittsburg Medical Center has created an app that will let doctors receive important data via their BlackBerry smartphone.  See all stories on this topic
• BlackBerry used to help manage COPD patients — A team of health scientists has launched a new study on how BlackBerry smartphones might be used to improve the monitoring and treatment of patients suffering from chronic disease—and even to save lives
• HIPAA violators could face fines of up to $1.5M — This strengthened penalty scheme will encourage healthcare providers, health plans and other healthcare entities required to comply with HIPAA
• Will the real mobile enterprise device please stand up? — Four key features separate the consumer-world wannabes from true enterprise-grade mobile devices
• Smartphones increase trust among doctors; privacy concerns for patients — Security and privacy can’t be an afterthought for any wireless health solution that includes personal health information
• The Fazzi/BlackBerry Report: Preliminary Findings of Major Study Say Handhelds Thrusting, Monitors Rusting — Researcher Dr. Robert Fazzi, Ph.D., stole the limelight from luminaries Colin Powell and Hollywood film producer Peter Samuelson when he led off the final morning by revealing preliminary results of his study, The BlackBerry Report: The National State of the Home Care Industry
• Health care eyes smart phones to heal ills — Wireless connectivity and mobile apps may one day solve some of the most pressing health care issues we face
• 15 Free Healthcare Apps for the BlackBerry — FierceMobileHealthcare has compiled a list of free healthcare and fitness apps to make the lives of healthcare professionals and consumers a little easier
• Toronto: Paramedics to give patients life-saving cardiac treatment as they’re being driven to hospital
• BlackBerry at D.C. VA Medical Center: Saving Heart-attack Victims with Handhelds — Learn about the Washington D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the EKG Smartphone Project
• Health Care IT: 10 Healthy BlackBerry Apps for You and Your Doctor
• Dr. BlackBerry: Eight Apps Making Medicine More Mobile — Learn about the BlackBerry applications doctors, nurses and their assistants are using to improve the healthcare experience
• BlackBerry solution aimed at home care workers — Canadian Healthcare Technology
• Wireless drug alerting solutions are making waves with physicians — Canadian Healthcare Technology

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