January 2010

How to sync the right user with the right medical app for their iPhone, iPod Touch, and the upcoming iPad

Jan 31, 2010 by
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With over 100,000 apps available for the iPhone/iPod Touch and billions of downloads since the App Store opened just under two years ago, the market is clearly hot. And with the release of the iPad, expect a new flood of apps into the market.  However, a recent article in the New York Times suggests that even with the wealth of options, people generally use only five apps despite having downloaded far more. The average iPhone or iPod Touch owner uses [Read more]

iPad could support “Handwriting Keyboard” – A requirement for medical point of care use in health care

Jan 30, 2010 by
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Ever tried using your iPhone medical apps with gloves?  Doesn’t work too well.  Although, if you’ve got gloves on you probably shouldn’t be using your iPhone anyways.  The iPad is being touted by many, including us, as a device that could be used with patients at the point of care.  Translation:  Could be used in hospital rooms and procedure rooms that require you to be gloved up. Since the iPad has a capacitive touch screen your gloves won’t work, and [Read more]

Apple’s iPad Will Fall Short of Transforming Hospital Medical Care, But May Have Potential With Electronic Medical Records

Jan 29, 2010 by
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Now that Apple’s bombshell has finally been dropped and the world has met the iPad, its finally time to begin separating fact from fiction. Will the iPad boast the same outstanding user interface as the iPhone and iPod Touch? Yes. Will the iPad solve world hunger? Probably not. Will the iPad be a useful tool in medicine, perhaps even transform the way healthcare is delivered or electronic medical records organized? The jury is still out on that one but, admittedly, [Read more]

Anatomy Apps: Clemente’s, Rohen’s, and Moore’s Anatomy Flash Card Apps: Similar User Interface, but Different Images, Could Be Used for Patient Education [App Review]

Jan 28, 2010 by
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This is a review of 3 Anatomy Apps developed by Modality, but from the following textbooks: Clemente’s, Rohen’s, and Moore’s. We comment on how these applications could take advantage of the iPad’s screen size and resolution and be used to visually educate patients on specific anatomic pathologies.

Apple iPad: Promising Features For Healthcare Use and Medical Education

Jan 27, 2010 by
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The iPad, Apple’s new tablet, has just been released.  The following are some quick hitting features of the iPad that the medical community should be excited about, and ones we hope will be implemented in the clinic setting. Battery life: Up to 10 hours, we mentioned in a previous post how important battery life is if Apple wants this tablet to be used in the healthcare setting Beautiful screen: The 1024 by 768 screen appears to be gorgeous by many [Read more]

Five Lessons Apple must learn from current Healthcare Tablets if the Apple Tablet (iPad) is to Succeed in the Medical Industry

Jan 26, 2010 by
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With Apple’s soon to be released iPad re-energizing the tablet market, there has been much speculation on how the tablet will transform personal computing.  However, the tablet has been with us for quite some time. Almost a decade ago, I started testing and using Windows-based Tablet PCs for two cancer centers in Canada. They worked pretty well for what we were trying to do back then, but had definite limitations within the healthcare environment. If Apple’s iPad is to survive [Read more]

How the Apple Tablet (iPad) Could Transform the Way Patients Experience Healthcare

Jan 25, 2010 by
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As the debut of the iPad fast approaches, speculation about it is reaching a fevered pitch. Scanning the thousands of articles written about the iPad’s potential, one may walk away thinking that Steve Jobs has just cured cancer, ended global warming, and established peace in the Middle East. Some people are even calling Apple’s latest creation the “Jesus tablet.” While the iPad probably falls somewhere short of some of those lofty projections, it has already done what Apple seems to [Read more]

Microsoft Potentially Moving to Major Healthcare Partnership Related to Electronic Medical Records – Apple and Google Beware!

Jan 23, 2010 by
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As healthcare systems and individual practices rush to adopt electronic medical records, health information technology companies have experienced unprecedented growth – Eclipsys’ net income grew by 140% to nearly $100 million in 2008. With billions of dollars allocated to electronic health records in the 2009 stimulus package, the health information technology sector is likely to experience even more growth as these funds are released and the economy turns around. But even though these electronic medical record systems proliferate, one key [Read more]

USMLE Step 1 iBank App: Lowest Cost Question Bank for the iPhone [App Review]

Jan 21, 2010 by
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This Step 1 USMLE Q-bank application is significantly cheaper that its competitors and contains 300 USMLE style questions.

iPhone Medical App Used to Survive Earthquake: Survivor Treated an Open Leg Fracture and Head Laceration Successfully

Jan 20, 2010 by
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There was a fascinating interview on the Today show of Don Woolley, an American filmmaker in Haiti who used his iPhone to help him survive the massive earthquake. ….Woolley had taken refuge in an elevator shaft, where he used an iPhone first-aid app to treat a compound fracture of his leg and a cut on his head. He had already used his digital SLR camera’s focusing light to illuminate his surroundings, and taken pictures of the wreckage to help find [Read more]

Nexus One and the Android Family vs. the iPhone: What’s the Medical Professional To Do?

Jan 19, 2010 by
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The momentum and enthusiasm in the mobile technology world is, these days, clearly with Google.  The question for many people is whether to go with the reigning champion of the mobile device world(arguably Apple) or to take a chance on the challenger. The Nexus One, the flagship of the Android family of mobile devices, was unveiled to much fanfare in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The veritable King Midas of the online world had finally [Read more]

Campbell’s Operative Orthopedics App for the iPhone: What Every Orthopedic Surgeon Wants [App Review]

Jan 17, 2010 by
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Campbell’s Operative Orthopedics is a cornerstone of any orthopedic surgeon’s library. This book has been transformed to an iPhone / iPod Touch Application, providing a crucial method for orthopedic providers to access the knowledge in the Campbell’s text.