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With the increasing use of electronic health records in California and across the nation, Carl Elkins, regional CIO for Adventist Health, recognizes the value of clinicians, patients and visitors being able to communicate on mobile phones anywhere in the hospital.Simi Valley Hospital, one of 17 hospitals in the Adventist Health system, recently tapped Extenet for a Distributed Antenna System, for its 144-bed patient care tower.

The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults, according to a new report by Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Pew Internet Project's latest survey of American adults, conducted in association with the California HealthCare Foundation, found that 85 percent use a cell phone. Of those:

"Is HITECH working" That was the question posed by Vince Kuraitis, principal of Better Health Technologies, at the Mobile Health Expo in Las Vegas on Wednesday.Specifically, Kuraitis, who runs the e-CareManagement blog (e-caremanagement.com), sought to explore how the stipulations of the stimulus might alter the healthcare IT business model - changing how the technology is developed and put to use.