iPhone
Healthcare IT–growth drivers
Jun/03/09 20:03
As I have discussed several times before, there seems to be a significant amount of activity in health information technology. President Obama’s stimulus package includes $19 billion to fund hospitals and individual physicians to upgrade their IT systems, specifically to migrate from paper-based patient records to electronic health records. In the near future, it would be possible for a patient record to be shared between all parts of the healthcare system. For example, patient with a severe trauma can be treated more quickly and effectively, if the emergency room had access to the patients record knowing what health issues may be critical to decisions about treating the patient. Having that information available within minutes can be crucial to saving the patient’s life. Anyone knowledgeable about the healthcare system in the US probably can list out many more examples where an online patient record can be the difference between success and failure in treating a patient.
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First iPhone application for medicine
Apr/16/09 07:29
I receive a lot of announcements of new medical products through various trade journals and email alerts. I read most of them, just to see what’s coming out of product pipelines of various medical products companies. Since I’m more of a technology person, I enjoy innovative devices that fill a need in the market. As I’ve said before, I think it’s critical that medical device and equipment companies bring products to the market that improve user ergonomics, reduce errors, and are easy-to-use. Read More...
Designing better medical products
Mar/22/09 11:35
I am an early adopter of any new technology, not only because I like new gadgets, but because I always expect the newer technology will have improved quality, power, and ease-of-use. Sometimes, I am quite pleased with the results, my iPhone from Apple being one of the better examples. More often than not, I find myself quite disappointed.
Without intending to be an uncritical fan of Apple (you can find those discussions in several other locations on the web), there are real reasons that the iPhone is simply the best cell phone on the market. First, it holds a good sampling of my music collection, eliminating one other device to carry with me. And that music is transferred to my iPhone by simply the most elegant piece of software I’ve ever used: iTunes. I hear people tell me that they can get music on their phones, but it takes work. I have no time to figure out arcane programming steps to get music on some other device. The music simply gets onto my iPhone, I can access it. That’s the ballgame for me.
Second, I have downloaded and installed onto my iPhone dozens of Apps, which are the programs for the iPhone. I have games, access to sports scores real time, business news, stock prices, maps, movies, Kindle books (this is a whole story in itself), and an amazing program that listens to music and identifies it (and it’s free). Using iTunes, I can buy the apps (many are free, but you still have to “purchase” them) at the iTunes store, and upload them to my iPhone. At its essence, iPhone has made my life easier. Read More...
Without intending to be an uncritical fan of Apple (you can find those discussions in several other locations on the web), there are real reasons that the iPhone is simply the best cell phone on the market. First, it holds a good sampling of my music collection, eliminating one other device to carry with me. And that music is transferred to my iPhone by simply the most elegant piece of software I’ve ever used: iTunes. I hear people tell me that they can get music on their phones, but it takes work. I have no time to figure out arcane programming steps to get music on some other device. The music simply gets onto my iPhone, I can access it. That’s the ballgame for me.
Second, I have downloaded and installed onto my iPhone dozens of Apps, which are the programs for the iPhone. I have games, access to sports scores real time, business news, stock prices, maps, movies, Kindle books (this is a whole story in itself), and an amazing program that listens to music and identifies it (and it’s free). Using iTunes, I can buy the apps (many are free, but you still have to “purchase” them) at the iTunes store, and upload them to my iPhone. At its essence, iPhone has made my life easier. Read More...