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GE and Intel announced Monday that their joint healthcare initiative will be called Care Innovations, and that the company is operational starting today. Care Innovations will develop technologies that support healthy, independent living at home and in senior housing communities.

Telcare, a Bethesda, Md. based company, focused on developing technology to manage chronic diseases, has raised $4.46 million of a targeted $5 million in a mixed securities offering, according to an amended SEC filing. The financing sources were not named in the filing.Telcare uses wireless technology to provide communications between chronically ill patients and their physicians. Jonathan Javitt, MD, vice chairman and CEO, and John Dwyer, chairman, founded the company in 2008. Javitt, Dwyer and David Bjork, president, were named in the filing.

More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. The 44-page report, "Health Check: Key Players in Mobile Healthcare," written by analyst Denise Culver, provides an overview of the emerging mHealth market, focusing on various conventional, hybrid and new technologies that are creating new business models.

The iPad has made its debut at a hospital in Israel where doctors have been given the technology to use on- and off-site.Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak (MYMC) equipped its physicians with the latest iPad version 4.2, customized for use in Hebrew. The technology allows clinicians instant touch-screen access to patient records and medical information via secure password-protected Internet. MYMC's IT team has programmed the Apple iPad to interact with the Microsoft Chameleon program used by the hospital.