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5 Reasons Why Health Information Technology Needs an Apple Inc.

Aug 17, 2010 by
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How the health care field could benefit if a company followed Apple’s Paradigm

Blio Reader is poised to be the e-book of choice for medical textbook publishers – Part 2

Jun 22, 2010 by
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In part one of this series, we reviewed the Blio business model and how Blio has strategically catered to the needs of book publishers as well as readers. In this post, we will review what we know about the technology and functionality of Blio Reader and how it might enhance digital textbooks to move closer towards their potential as a interactive teaching tools. Excerpt from part 1 of this series: Blio reader is a fascinating digital publication platform which appears [Read more]

Google’s Android OS strategy is following Microsoft’s lead – not Apple’s

May 27, 2010 by
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We’re giving away 5 promo codes for one of the most popular PDF readers in the App Store via the comments section of this post.  We’ve reviewed it on this site before and now the app is boasting some significant upgrades. There were fireworks at the recent Google developer conference (“Google I/O”). Some of this was well deserved excitement around features found in the newest version of the Android mobile operating system (version 2.2, “Froyo”). Much of the fireworks, however, [Read more]

Why Malpractice Lawyers Could Be Knocking on The Door of the Medical App World – A Big Danger for the Small Developer

Mar 16, 2010 by
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Medical practice is a big business. Conservative estimates put the total cost of medical malpractice at nearly $35 billion annually and, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, nearly $5 billion is paid in claims each year. With an average claims payment of about $300,000 and up to 50% of that going to the lawyers representing the patient, its not surprising that practically every show on cable television has at least one advertisement imploring patients who have suffered practically any [Read more]

Will Healthcare Providers Shun or Embrace the iPad – Conflicting Surveys Send Mixed Messages [Updated]

Mar 10, 2010 by
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Updated! This post has been updated below to include comments from the folks at Epocrates The excitement and hype surrounding the announcement of Apple’s iPad have subsided for the time being, perhaps just a lull prior to the actual release in a few months. Here at iMedicalApps, we were certainly among the many believers and expected that the iPad could make significant contributions to healthcare, such as potentially replacing the physician’s clipboard or medical textbooks. However, we did disagree at [Read more]

Social Textbooks and the iPad – How the Medical Community Could Benefit from Dynamic E-books

Feb 13, 2010 by
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It’s probably not an exaggeration to predict medical students of the next decade will not lift a physical textbook. In fact, even ownership of a discrete entity, formerly referred to as a “textbook’, may be a historical footnote. Instead, students may simply rent the chapters they need for a particular course, paying a recurring subscription fee to the publisher for the period of usage. This system could foster innovation and allow for dynamic ebooks that change with standard of care, [Read more]

AT&T’s Strained 3G Network, If not Improved, Will Limit the iPad’s Opportunities in the Medical Community – FCC voices concerns

Feb 08, 2010 by
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When I was handed my first pager, I was stunned. It looked like the beeper that Will Smith used to flash on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air (and not even the later seasons, I’m talking about the early, crazy outfit seasons!). So I asked why I couldn’t simply use my phone or, for that matter, why we didn’t all use phones. The answer was simple – reliability. The paging system, of which this rather archaic looking item was part, [Read more]

Motion Computing – One of the iPad’s Competitors in the Medical Tablet World

Feb 07, 2010 by
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When I first entered the clinical world, physician order entry and electronic medical records were just concepts to me. As I learned how to navigate the hospital, diagnose everything from the mundane to the incredibly rare (my first patient was a baby with an idiopathic subdural venous thrombosis), and figure out how to treat the sick, I also had to learn how to use those two systems as a prerequisite to doing everything else. The four hours of class didn’t [Read more]

Apple or Google? The Answer is Both – What the Future Holds for their Competing Mobile Platforms

Feb 05, 2010 by
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Over the last few months, a great deal of time has been expended on the “hot competition” between Apple and Google in relation to smart phones. Much of this interest probably had to do with a partially imagined story of a once close friendship between Apple and Google, founded on their mutual enmity of Microsoft, now fractured on the rocks of competition and greed. While the truth probably isn’t as dramatic, whatever conflict exists is much less interesting than where [Read more]

Apple iPad and Electronic Medical Records – Could it Replace the Physician’s Clipboard?

Feb 04, 2010 by
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Having had the opportunity to visit nearly a dozen academic medical centers in the past few weeks, I saw quite the spectrum of IT systems – from simple order entry to fully-integrated decision support systems. And for programs with the former, that revelation was quickly followed by the timeline for the coming upgrade. But what’s next for the most IT-savvy institutions? Well, Steve Jobs thinks he has an answer. Rumors abound that Apple is already pitching the iPad in LA-area [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]

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]