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.

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 Solutions for Healthcare Brochure (PDF)
• BlackBerry Solutions for Healthcare Postcard (PDF)

White Papers

• BlackBerry® and The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) (PDF)
• BlackBerry and HIPAA Guidelines (PDF)
• Integration through Information Communication Technology for Home Care in Canada (PDF)
• Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Replacing Pagers With Smartphones (Amcom Software) (PDF)
• Smart Hospitals Embracing Smartphones at the Point of Care (Voalte)  (PDF)
• Unified Communications: Improving Clinical Performance  (PDF)
• Unified Communications: The Rx for Healthcare Operational Performance (PDF)
• Wireless EMI in Healthcare Facilities (PDF)
• Wireless Home Care Solutions (PDF)

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News

Stay up-to-date with the latest information.

Press releases and articles

• NEW: Mobihealthnews - At the Adobe MAX event, Oct 25th, RIM co-CEO and Founder Mike Lazaridis took the stage following the first live demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook, featuring Client Outlook’s eUnity imaging application.
• NEW: Inside A Smartphone Rollout With Life and Death Consequences - CIO Magazine – How Emory Healthcare and others are replacing pagers with Smartphones thanks to Amcom® Mobile Connect.
• NEW: BlackBerry to help youth monitor Diabetes - The Visiting Nurse Service of New York is running a pilot program for some young people with Type 1 diabetes.  Patients can use a BlackBerry to help keep track of their chronic illness.
• NEW: Upgrade: The case for the smartphone in healthcare, according to BlackBerry - When will doctors and nurses ditch the pager for good?
• NEW: Smartphones save money and stave off staffing shortages, study finds - As smartphones grow increasingly feature-rich and easy-to-use, the devices offer a solution to many of these serious communication shortfalls.
• NEW: BlackBerry SIM-optional; No "goofy" health apps - SIM-optional BlackBerry devices that run only on a facility's in-house WiFi so care facilities can leverage their own wireless networking assets.
• NEW: Cleveland Clinic launches mobile webiste for smartphones - The Cleveland Clinic has launched a mobile version of its website that will allow smartphone users to search for doctors and access general information about the hospital.
• UHN in Toronto uses BlackBerry - UHN and other medical institutions are turning to smartphones to improve communications among clinicians and support staff.
• Mobile Medicine: Doctors and Nurses Up the Apps - Physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals want to deliver the best care possible, and many are finding smartphones with mobile applications improve quality of care.
• 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
• 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.

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