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Health Canada approves iPhone medical app for diagnostic imaging use – FDA to follow suit? [Resolution MD Mobile]

Apr 22, 2010 by
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Canadian doctors can now use the iPhone medical app, ResolutionMD Mobile, for diagnostic purposes.  This is a huge step in legitimizing the use of mobile technology to make diagnostic recommendations.  Canadian healthcare providers can use the app for 2D, 3D and MIP/MRP viewing of CT and MR imaging.  Ross Mitchell, a professor in the radiology department at the University of Calgarys faculty of medicine, has been working on this app for years and has spent significant time fine tuning the [Read more]

California Hospital ordering iPads for healthcare use

Apr 21, 2010 by
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One of the most important apps for healthcare providers might not be a medical app after all, rather a business app, called Citrix Receiver for iPad.  This app allows your to have secure access to virtual desktops, applications, and data – those of you who have accessed your hospitals electronic health record when off campus are using this type of software. Hospital systems can use the Citrix app to access their own servers and desktops, as shown in the above video, [Read more]

New iPad Demographics Suggest the Medical iPad Could Be An Easier Sell to Healthcare Providers

Apr 17, 2010 by
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The iPad is a pretty cool device, as you may have gathered from our healthcare perspective comprehensive review of it. And with the iPhone OS 4.0 bringing some new features to this powerful platform, the iPad certainly has a lot of things going for it. In particular, the enterprise and security features of the new operating system will further lower the barriers to adoption of the iPad in healthcare. We could finally have a user-friendly and practical mobile device on [Read more]

Security and Enterprise Features: iPhone OS 4.0 and what it means for the healthcare industry and medical users – Part 2

Apr 15, 2010 by
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This is part two of a two part series focused on the iPhone 4.0 Operating System (OS) recently announced by Apple. Enterprise and Security: One of the key updates in iPhone OS 4.0 are related to enterprise – the Blackberry’s forte. The upgrade in enterprise will be instrumental in the iPad and iPhone platforms penetration into large health care business, such as hospitals or hospital systems. Here, the new features are aimed at pleasing the healthcare IT department by simplifying [Read more]

“Empowering Patients” Isn’t Always A Good Thing – The Risks and Benefits of iPhone Medical Apps That Turn Patients Into Consumers

Apr 12, 2010 by
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Unless you spent the last two years in a Himalayan monastery, you are certainly aware of the bitter healthcare battle that unfolded in Washington. Underlying the nonsense about death panels from the right and claims of impending doom from the left lies a far more legitimate conflict about how we view healthcare – as a basic human right or as a market service. Conservatives generally ascribe to the latter, viewing non-emergent healthcare as a service delivered to Americans via a [Read more]

Apple squashes any hopes of flash based electronic health records on the iPhone or iPad

Apr 12, 2010 by
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We posted an article a few weeks ago detailing how a form of Adobe’s flash player, the ubiquitous platform used to stream videos and play games, was coming to the iPhone operating system.  We were excited about this because many electronic health record (EHR) vendors developing web-based (“Saas”) EHRs, including Practice Fusion, Hello Health, and Care Cloud have relied on Adobe Flash technology for portions of the user interface. [Check out our video of Care Cloud’s EHR in action – [Read more]

MultiTasking: iPhone OS 4.0 and what it means for the healthcare industry and medical users – Part 1

Apr 11, 2010 by
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This is part one of a two part series focused on the iPhone 4.0 Operating System (OS) recently announced by Apple. Last Thursday’s announcement of the upcoming release of version 4 of the iPhone OS platform was billed by Apple as the biggest release yet for its operating system (OS).  This operating system powers the iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad. The announcement refers to 1500 new APIs (application programming interface) that will be available for developers, giving them [Read more]

Surgeon using iPad in the Operating Room

Apr 09, 2010 by
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A Surgeon is already finding uses for his iPad in the OR. “Look, I’m looking at a spine here and I can zoom in to where the disc is herniated. I can pull it up and exactly measure what the canal size is, for herniation at,” Palma said. The story is being reported by WMBFnew.com, an NBC news affiliate, about Dr. Claudio Palma. Dr. Palma could be using one of the DICOM apps to view the images on his iPad, [Read more]

iPad App Store needs to mature before medical community can adopt the iPad for healthcare use

Apr 08, 2010 by
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If you dream of pulling out your shiny iPad from your white coat to look up medical information via an app, similar to what you do on your iPhone, you might think: surely, my iPhone medical apps must look better on my iPad.  You should know the following before entertaining those thoughts. Will the iPad fit in your white coat? check.  Is the iPad fast enough for this type of healthcare point of care use? check. Will your iPhone medical [Read more]

Wouldn’t It Be Great if EHRs (medical records) Supported Plug-Ins and Were More Like Firefox?

Apr 06, 2010 by
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I am currently migrating from one electronic health record (EHR) to another in my practice and feeling very sorry for myself. There ought to be a way to do this easily, I keep thinking to myself.  Despite all the talk of interoperability and health information exchanges (HIEs) that is all the buzz right now in health IT circles, it seems that some basic functionality that could help make doctors’ lives easier is still missing from EHRs. While being able to [Read more]

iPad customized medical apps already in the Apple App Store

Apr 02, 2010 by
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Developers for some of our favorite medical apps have been working at a fever pitch to have their apps utilize the extra functionality and screen space offered by the iPad.  Just to be clear, all your iPhone medical apps will run on your iPad.  But, some developers have made “iPad versions” of their medical apps.  The following are some of our favorite medical apps that have done this conversion, and screenshots of how they have utilized the extra space and [Read more]

Apple iPad set to launch – What do you, Medical Professionals, think?

Apr 01, 2010 by
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The Apple iPad is set to launch, and right now, most of the early reviews of the product have been positive.  The NY Times has a fantastic piece looking at the iPad from two angles – An everyday user verse a more technically inclined user, and both have differing opinions on the eventual success of the iPad. But what about a medical professional or a medical student.  From the reviews I’ve read so far, the screen is gorgeous and easy [Read more]