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At the close of the third annual mHealth Summit, held Dec. 5-7 in Washington, D.C., keynote speakers highlighted the vast impact mobile phones and other mobile devices are having -- and will continue to have -- on healthcare delivery in the United States and worldwide.

The chief of the cardiology department at 400-bed Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has developed software for controlling heart devices remotely using an iPad, The hospital's executives say the technology could revolutionize the way physicians reprogram pacemakers.

Robert S. Oscar, the CEO of RxEOB, explains how smartphones will affect the PBM market

General Electric and Microsoft will jointly establish a new, as-yet-unnamed healthcare IT company, combining their strengths to spur development of an open, interoperable technology platform and create clinical apps aimed at improving patient care worldwide.

The California-based developer of mobile health technology is sponsoring a three-continent study that tests its patient adherence and monitoring software in a home setting; the company also is launching a cloud-based service that hospitals can use for telemedicine projects, among others.