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.

Discover how your team could benefit from a BlackBerry solution for Home Care, Hospitals and Medical Professionals.

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 Professional Services

The BlackBerry® Professional Services group can be engaged to provide guidance on the initial design and architecture of mobile solutions, assist with update management or manage new infrastructure or application development projects. Learn more about BlackBerry Professional Services

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

There are over 300 BlackBerry® Alliance Program members that build out-of-the box and custom enterprise applications¹ to mobilize your business.

• BlackBerry® Business Solutions for Clinicians (PDF)
  Clinicians have access to 70+ enterprise-focused healthcare ISV solutions covering all categories
• 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

Discover how your team could benefit from a BlackBerry solution for Home Care, Hospitals and Medical Professionals.

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.

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

• Baylor Health Care System
• BJC HealthCare
• Champion EMS
• Dr. Brian A. Levine
• PacifiCare Health Systems
• Trillium Health Centre
• University of Southern California – Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Decision Support & Patient Records

• Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
• California Transplant Donor Network
• Mercy Health Partners

Home Care Solutions

• LifeSource
• ParaMed
• Therapy Partners
• We Care Home Health Services

IT Solutions/Other

• Cytyc Corporation
• Shands Jacksonville
• 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: 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
• New: 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
• New: The Globe and Mail: 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
• New: 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
• New: The National State of the Home Care Industry – Ten insights that emerged during the first analysis of the BlackBerry Report: The National State of the Home Care Industry Report
• Toronto: Paramedics to give 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
• MCS Health in the News – Pharmacopoeia at your fingertips – canada.com
• Toronto General rolls out innovative tele-dialysis service – Canadian Healthcare Technology
• Ireland's health care on the move (PDF)

• Vettro Fieldmaster for Healthcare:
  • Long-term care nurses enlisting BlackBerrys in fight for referrals – The Boston Globe

• Trillium Health Centre:
  • Q&A with Dr. Chris O'Connor, Director of Medical Informatics – BlackBerry Connection® newsletter
  • BlackBerries saving lives in hospital experiment – canada.com
  • Wireless BlackBerry transforms communication at Trillium's ICU – Canadian Healthcare Technology
  • EMI interference press release

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