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Apple preparing to revolutionize digital textbooks, medical texts included?

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New sources indicate Apple’s January media event is likely to focus on iTunes University and Apple in education suggesting an eTextbook revolution

The future of online digital textbooks, interview with Jill Ambrose, CMO of CourseSmart

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An interview with CourseSmart’s Chief Marketing Officer, Jill Ambrose

Heavy investment in tablets expected by health care practices in 2012

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Many medical practices and dental offices are planning to spend thousands of dollars to buy tablet computers in 2012.

Despite enthusiasm from healthcare providers, hospitals are slow to adopt tablet systems

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Its no secret that healthcare providers are adopting tablets at a rapid pace – one survey found that over 25% of physicians own a tablet and that was nearly nine months ago. This trend, both with tablets and smartphones, has generally been bottom-up; physicians, PA’s, NP’s, nurses, and other healthcare providers are buying consumer devices and bringing them into the clinical world. However, as Eric Yablonka, CIO of University of Chicago Hospitals put it, “This is not ‘nice to have [Read more]

CourseSmart presents a great, comprehensive model for the digital future of medical education

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CourseSmart have certainly put their stamp on the particularly exciting development of online textbooks and resources. The wide range of medical textbooks available and ease of accessibility are sure to help ensure CourseSmart become a popular resource for both students and educators.

Finding the Best PDF Management App for Healthcare Professionals [Part 2]

A look at the best PDF management apps for managing your medical literature library. There are a lot of great apps out there, but here we pick our favorite.

Finding the Best PDF Management App for Healthcare Professionals [Part 1]

A look at the best PDF management apps for managing your medical literature library. There are a lot of great apps out there, but here we pick our favorite.

Interview with Matt MacInnis, Founder and CEO of Inkling

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An interview with Matt MacInnis, Founder and CEO of Inkling. Matt discusses his vision for Inkling, collaboration with a range of medical schools, interactive textbooks, memorable moments and the future of medical education

3D4Medical.com brings popular NOVA series to the Mac App Store

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3D4Medical.com have recently released a number of their celebrated NOVA series apps in the Mac App Store. This is the first time, we have seen a major iOS medical app developer port a successful iOS app onto the Mac platform. There are a number of implications for physicians, medical educators and students everywhere who now have an additional tool which they can use to help teach/learn anatomy.

Using a venerable anatomy e-book on the iPad with Inkling

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Anatomy is a highly visual field. The images are as important – if not even more so – than the text, so that is the first thing I focused my attention on with Essential Clinical Anatomy by Moore. As with other Inkling books, all figures are embedded in crisp, clear text. Selecting the figure brings up an isolated view that magnifies the image and provides a caption. Using the pinch maneuver, the image can be expanded with almost no grainy pixels. I was quite impressed with the brilliance and overall quality of the figures.

Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine residency launches iPad program

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An insider perspective on the move to mobile at the nation’s number one hospital. In this first series installment, we answer the question – why the iPad?