Tag Archives: Smartphone

12 trends for mobile health in 2012

Brian Dolan over at Mobilehealthnews has written a nice article on 12 trends for mobile health in 2012 The most obvious one is the adoption of smartphones and tablets By the end of 2011, Nielsen expected half of the US … Continue reading &rarr...

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Physician Smartphone Adoption Experiencing Exponential Growth

HCP Live reports MENLO PARK, CA, July 23, 2010. Today, Spyglass Consulting Group released its most recent healthcare study, Point of Care Communications for Physicians. It shows significant trends on how physicians across the United States are adopti...

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Which smartphone will own the healthcare market?

Chris Thorman of Softwareadvice.com recently held a survey to gauge smartphone use in the medical community. To see the results of the survey, go here. Its an interesting survey and my main criticism is that actual numbers were not published, &hellip...

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More Doctors using Smartphones

Smartphone Computing Moving Into Docs’ Offices is an article by Mohammad Al-Ubaydli. Apparently in the US, smartphone usage is almost 50% in 2006 and could be 70% by 2011. The 6 million dollar question of course is which will be … Contin...

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The Palmdoc Chronicles goes mobile!

It would be somewhat ironic if a site about PDAs, smartphones and mobile medical computing does not have a mobile portal. After the successful WordPress upgrade, I have added in a WordPress mobile plugin which makes this site mobile friendly …...

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It could have been the Foleo

It could have been the Foleo Originally uploaded by palmdoc. Pic of my old Treo650 sitting on top of the Asus Eee PC (a colleague just bought one, it’s not mine unfortunately) – an ultra portable notebook replacement which comes … ...

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UpToDate 15.3 PDA Edition

My UpToDate DVDs arrived in the mail yesterday. You might be interested to know that the PDA installation disks for both Palm and Windows Mobile come in a single installation DVD this time round. For a full installation, one requires … Continu...

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An interview with the Meister

This is the second in our series of interviews with prominent personalities in the world of Medical PDA computing. I am sure many of you will be familiar with Meistermed and the iSilo Depot which is a great collection of … Continue reading &ra...

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PEPID Launches Gerontological Nursing Suite

Evanston, Illinois — October 18, 2007 — PEPID, the innovative medical information software developer, announced today that it is launching a new product, PEPID™ Gerontological Nursing Suite (RN GERO). Released for online, Palm, PocketPC, Window...

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If I were a medical student

At a PDA forum I frequent, a medical student asked what software to install in his PDA phone. Are you a medical student starting cilnical clerkship and wondering how a Palm PDA/smartphone might help you? If you are new to … Continue reading &r...

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Unbound launches Pediatrics Central

Today Unbound Medicine announced the release of Pediatrics Central—a unique disease, drug, and evidence bundle for pediatric care. It is the fifth in the company’s “Central” series for PDA, Web, and wireless devices. Combining two popular ref...

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An Interview with Carl Weber MD

Many of you would have heard of Carl Weber, of Clinical Medicine Consult series fame. I am a fan and user of one of Carl Weber’s references and I thought it would be great to let you know more about … Continue reading →...

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