March 2010

Can a $0.99 Medical App for the iPhone Treat Chronic Ringing in the Ears (Tinnitus)? Doubtful – Here’s why

Mar 07, 2010 by
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In a recent press relase, Inner Ear Solutions announced the release of iTinnitus Solutions 1.1, an app directed at sufferers of tinnitus. First, a bit of background – tinnitus basically refers an a false perception of sound caused by an abnormality in your ear (as opposed to, say, auditory hallucinations which are associated with various types of brain dysfunction). In short, its that annoying ringing that most of us get occasionally. Some people are chronic sufferers, with their tinnitus resulting [Read more]

Triage and Treat Patients From Anywhere with Allscripts Remote iPhone App- An Electronic Health Record and ePrescribing Tool (upcoming Android support)

Mar 05, 2010 by
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This article is part of iMedicalApps HIMSS 2010 Coverage. It includes a brief review of the Allscripts Remote app for the iPhone as well as details of a conversation with Allscripts executives who revealed that they are moving to development of an Android app. When Allscripts announced the launch of Allscripts Remote last year, an iPhone application for their popular electronic medical record, it was widely touted as a transformational move. Forbes Magazine called this an app “that could change [Read more]

Visual Dx Mobile App: iPhone Medical App That Supercharges a Clinician’s Most Basic Tool – Our Eyes

Mar 04, 2010 by
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This article is part of our HIMSS 2010 coverage. It includes a brief review of the iPhone medical app from Logial Images – Visual Dx Mobile – and a conversation with Dr. Art Papier, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Office of Logical Images. Although an unimaginable array of technology was demonstrated in the hangar-like exhibition spaces at HIMSS, one of the most impressive uses of technology from a physician’s perspective was in a small booth in far off corner. In it, [Read more]

In a Windows World, MacPractice Brings a Legitimate Electronic Health Record to Apple and includes iPhone integration

Mar 04, 2010 by
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This article is part of our HIMSS 2010 coverage. It includes an overview of the MacPractice EHR and its iPhone interface as well as a conversation with Mark Hollis, CEO of MacPractice. One of the key’s to Apple’s success has been the reliable, simple, and fun UI it has designed for every one of its products. Part of the reason that this feature has stood out is because the Microsoft-based PC world has become known for essentially the opposite. The [Read more]

Nuance Brings Medical Dictation and Search to your iPhone: Dragon Medical Mobile Apps [Video]

Mar 03, 2010 by
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In this video we check out two of the Dragon Medical Mobile Apps (releasing later this year) for the iPhone, Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation and Medical Mobile Search.  We recorded this video from Nuance’s booth at the HIMSS conference Nuance, the makers of Dragon Medical Dictation, a favorite dictation service among many physicians, announced at HIMSS they are bringing the same medical transcription service to the iPhone. Many readers may have noticed the recent arrival of a free Nuance “Dragon” [Read more]

Zynx Health Condenses Vast Amounts of Evidence Based Guidelines into Computerized Order Sets

Mar 02, 2010 by
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This is part of iMedicalApps coverage of the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Zynx Health was founded in 1994 by three physicians at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Their original mission, unchanged from that time, says Carina Edwards, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, is to improve patient care and decrease costs. The challenge for physicians, then as now, is utilizing evidence based medicine in day-to-day patient care. While physicians can always search the primary literature or [Read more]

Epocrates’s recently announced Electronic Health Record will utilize many iPhone features

Mar 02, 2010 by
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We discussed the features Epocrates EHR will have with one of their senior vice presidents. We were excited to learn there will be lots of iPhone integration.

Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect and the compelling results from their study with the Cleveland Clinic

Mar 02, 2010 by
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This is part of iMedicalApps coverage of the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia A common cause of annoyance for patients is filling out the same forms over and over again.  While just about every adult has experienced this issue, the deeper problem is a single patient will almost always have more than one physician or caregiver. This means the repetitive form filling is really the tip of a much more serious problem of data in silos, with each physician [Read more]

What is CCHIT and how this group will affect physicians by defining meaningful use of Electronic Medical Records

Mar 02, 2010 by
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This is part of iMedicalApps coverage of the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia One of the numerous sessions today was a lunch hour “town hall” on the current status of CCHIT certification. This is one of many acronyms populating the language of health IT folks, especially recently, and stands for Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. This organization is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization with “the public mission of accelerating the adoption of health IT”. Today’s presentation was headed by [Read more]

Hello from HIMSS 2010! Electronic Health Record Incentives for Physicians and a chat with the CEO of MDcohort

Mar 01, 2010 by
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We’re live here in Atlanta, Georgia, at the HIMSS conference.  This week we’ll be bringing relevant posts and interviews related to the conference in breaking news fashion. The 2010 HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference is now underway in Atlanta in what promises to be a signal year in the world of health IT. The reasons seems to be the confluence of a year long public discussion on health care reform and, very important, the provision in the [Read more]