Satish Misra, MD

Epocrates electronic health record raises new possibilities and ethical questions

Aug 03, 2011 by
Commentary
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Last week, Epocrates announced the availability of its long-anticipated EHR platform cleverly named Epocrates EHR — but does Epocrates close relationship with pharma complicate the picture?

Pharma influence in popular physician medical apps goes mainstream with New York Times

Jul 29, 2011 by
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Covered by iMA nearly a month ago, the New York Times takes the issue of pharma influence in mobile apps mainstream.

UptoDate finally comes to the iPhone, but with a few catches

Jul 14, 2011 by
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Looking back on my medical internship, there are a few things I can point to as critical to my survival – a limitless supply of coffee, 24-hour availability of cheese fries, chewable antacids, and UpToDate. Whether I needed to know how to manage a patient with a pulmonary embolism or was trying to figure out what Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was, UptoDate was a go-to resource for practically any clinical situation. In fact, it became a verb among interns, as in “I [Read more]

Can this iPhone app really diagnose skin cancer?

Jul 12, 2011 by
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MelApp for the iPhone claims to assess risk of melanoma for concerning lesions, using algorithms derived from a large reference database. While it sounds promising, there remain key gaps in information that raise questions about the safety and viability of this app.

Physicians, Pharma, and “free” medical apps

Jul 05, 2011 by
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The medical app industry is a big business, but the apps are no longer the product – the physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers who use them are. In the first part of this series, we examined some of the financial forces driving the medical app industry. Our focus then was Epocrates, the veritable founder of the industry. As is clearly stated in their recent SEC statement, Epocrates primary revenue stream has become the pharmaceutical industry and as such a [Read more]

Why “free” Epocrates and Medscape aren’t really free medical apps for Physicians

Jun 28, 2011 by
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Medical apps are a big business, but not because of the apps. In this two-part series, we look at how the physicians who use these apps became the product.

Study suggests that teledermatology programs are not an alternative to in-person evaluation

Jun 07, 2011 by
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Programs that deliver specialty care to underserved areas utilizing telemedicine are being launched all over the world. However a recent study published in the British Journal of Dermatolgy raises some questions about the limitations of this technology, particularly some unintended consequences that appear to have adverse patient outcomes. The study looked at a series of dermatolgy referrals for suspicious skin lesions, gathering data on 400 patients within a VA site. What they found was that for many of those patients [Read more]

Mobile Medical News Roundup from iMedicalApps

May 13, 2011 by
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For anyone interested in mobile health, the pace of new developments, partnerships, and innovations is dizzying. In this series, we pore through the latest in the mobile health world and pick a few articles that we think are interesting and convey important developments. Be sure to let us know what you think by adding your comments to this post ! GenerationOne Selected by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for Mobile Health Pilot with Teen Asthmatics From PR Newswire GenerationOne and [Read more]

Cambridge researchers release report on how mobile phones are transforming healthcare

May 06, 2011 by
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A new comprehensive report from researchers at the University of Cambridge examines the promise of mobile health applications in developing and developed nations.

Mobile Medical News Roundup from iMedicalApps

Apr 28, 2011 by
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A weekly roundup of some of the most interesting stories on mobile health technology. From iMedicalApps.com, the leader in mobile health technology news and medical app reviews.

The evolution of communications in healthcare – interview with Voalte VP Trey Lauderdale

Apr 28, 2011 by
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For an industry that can use polymer-coated metal stents to open arteries about 1/1000′th the size of a penny and align 200+ beams of gamma radiation to ablate malignancies, its pretty surprising that healthcare as a whole has been a late-adopter of technology in pretty much every area outside of direct patient care. However, just as the stimulus package lit a fire under the movement to embrace electronic medical records, communications technology has finally begun to evolve as well. In [Read more]

The end of the pager is coming – Part II

Apr 11, 2011 by
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Pagers were first introduced in the 1950′s. Interestingly enough, physicians were early adopters of this then-emerging technology, paying around $10/month for the service in NYC. And for nearly half a century, pagers came to dominate communications in healthcare settings thanks to their reliability and reach. And while many things in medicine have changed, this part of how we communicate with each other hadn’t until recently. And as any healthcare provider can attest, this has been to the detriment of patient [Read more]