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The Westborough, Mass.-based developer of clinical information systems is making its move into patient engagement with a business unit designed to link the patient more easily to physicians and electronic health records.

In an interview with New Media Producer Benjamin Harris, Brent Lang, Vocera's president and COO, offers a few tips for healthcare providers diving into the "bring your own device" pool.

In this contributed commentary, Biscom President Bill Ho discusses how mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are reshaping the healthcare environment.

The Atlanta-based company is touting its recent deals with the Henry Ford Health System and Advocate Health Care, but notes that too many providers are simply hoping a data breach won't happen to them.

The study, conducted late last year, indicates that doctors avoided some 27 million potentially dangerous drug interactions in the past year by checking information in the Epocrates database.