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The best of iMedicalApps, the first installment of March

Mar 16, 2012 by
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March is here, and that means nicer weather along with March Madness! Because we know you have busy lives (along with a lot of basketball to watch) we have condensed for you our top, favorite posts of March thus far. For this installment, we discuss everything from the new iPad to ways you can take an idea for a healthcare app and turn it into a reality. We also look at ways social media is influencing various aspects of patient care.

How Virtual Care is transforming healthcare

Mar 14, 2012 by
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Discussion regarding the merits of using video conferencing technology to interact with patients in a virtual care setting.

FaceTime is HIPAA compliant and encrypted, could change the way physicians and patients communicate

Sep 26, 2011 by
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Apple’s FaceTime is fully encrypted and HIPAA Compliant with WPA2 Enterprise security setting. This has several implications for its use in healthcare and the promotion of telemedicine.

iPhone 4 FaceTime video conferencing feature can help your doctor

Jun 23, 2010 by
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The highlight of the recent Steve Jobs keynote where he unveiled iPhone 4 was the video telephony feature that Apple named FaceTime. This is classic Apple, taking an existing technology – video chat, think Skype – and recasting it as a brand new invention. Predictably, many commentators scoffed that FaceTime is nothing more than marketing fluff, rather than a real innovation. But, on the other hand, if one considers the implications of a zero-configuration feature that allows you to instantly [Read more]