Physicians Use Smartphones with Medical Applications

Wireless and Mobile News reported on a study by MDsearch.com, saying that 53% of physicians surveyed own a smartphone and 63% of these use mobile applcations such as drug guides, calculators, clinical resources, CME, and medical dictionaries...MORE

CDC Uses Social Media to Issue H1N1 Information

Information Week reports that the CDC will make use of Twitter, YouTube, and other social media to spread information about Swine Flu to the public...MORE

Twitter Applications in Health Care

An article in the Jul/Aug 2009 issue of Telemedicine and e-Health discusses current and potential uses of Twitter in medicine....MORE

Best Medical Software for Your PDA

After a brief overview of available mobile operating systems, Medical Economics reviews the top medical software...MORE

Insurers Cover Online Patient/Physician Consultation

More physicians are communicating with patients online now that an increasing number of health insurance companies will cover consultation via chat, video conference, or interactive questionnaires....MORE

Wireless Patient Monitoring Holds Promise for Health Care

According to the Wall Street Journal, technology companies are exploring the potential of wireless to improve patient care through remote monitoring. Using existing infrastructure, more than four billion cellphones have been sold to date, these devices can send medical data to doctors. Many hospitals, once shy of cell phones, now see cutting wires as a way to cut costs....MORE

NIH Scientists Encouraged to Support Wikipedia

The National Institutes of Health recently co-hosted a training session with Wikipedia Foundation to instruct members of the NIH community in authoring and editing content for Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia sees it as a way to increase and improve health-related content...MORE

Cell Phones as Repository for Personal Health Records

With increasing numbers carrying mobile phones, these devices are seen as a way for individuals to monitor health by monitoring diabetes, blood pressure, or other indicators for chronic conditions. Regularly gathered information could be easily stored with historical health data and shared with health providers responsible for patient management...MORE

Healthcare Information Management Executives Surveyed on CPOE

Computerized physician order entry systems are available in 199 of 335 hospitals represented by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), however respondents indicated that full adoption of the systems in their institutions may take more than 2 years...MORE

Impact of iPhone and Other Wireless Technologies on FCC and FDA Policy

Availability of powerful wireless phones (e.g., iPhone) and new mobile healthcare applications and services that support patient monitoring or help patients manage conditions and treatment regimens raises questions of policy implications for the FCC and the FDA. The FCC has jurisdiction over the use of the electromagnetic spectrum used by cellphones and devices that are attached to or are implanted in patients to monitor and transmit information wirelessly to health care providers. The FDA is responsible for approving medical devices before they are made available to the public....MORE

Unbound Medicine's uCentral Supports iPhone Users in Medical Institutions

Unbound Medicine has released an application for iPhone™ and iPod® touch devices in institutions that subscribe to uCentral™, a custom point-of-need solution purchased by medical libraries to deliver information such as 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Harrison's Manual of Medicine, The Merck Manual, Davis's Drug Guide, and Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary...MORE

Developers See iPhone Potential as a Medical Device

With 30 milllion iPhones sold and over 1 billion apps downloaded in two years, pharma companies and third-party developers are thinking of ways to make and market medical applications for both patients and professionals...MORE

5-Minute Clinical Consult for Mobile + Web Available from Unbound Medicine

The new 2010 edition of 5-Minute Clinical Consult is now available from Unbound Medicine in a unique mobile/web configuration. Subscribers get the latest information on the diagnosis and treatment of 715 medical conditions plus 200 bonus topics on common pediatric diseases. The subscription includes regular updates and 1 year of free access to a drug database, patient education, and more at 5MCC.com. MORE...

89% of US Physicians Consider Internet Essential

According to a study from Manhattan Research, 89% of online US physicians consider the Web essential to their practice of medicine. Physicians are consulting online resources via computer and mobile devices at multiple points during the day for information about clinical decisions, to make recommendations to patients, and to keep up with changes in medicine....MORE

Unbound Medicine Announces Support for Android

Unbound Medicine has announced release of premier medical references for smartphones running the Android™ mobile technology platform from Google, Inc. Among the products now available for Android are best-selling medical and nursing titles that help clinicians answer questions at the point of need, including The Merck Manual, Davis's Drug Guide, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, and the Five-Minute Clinical Consult In addition, Unbound's unique aggregated offerings, Nursing Central™ and uCentral™, for individuals and institutions may be downloaded to Android devices MORE...

Smartphone Use Increases Among Physicians

In 2009, 64% of doctors in the U.S. reported they used a smartphone, according to Manhattan Research. Only 30% answered the same way in 2001. ...MORE

Diagnosaurus Available on iPhone/iPod touch

Unbound Medicine has announced the release of the popular differential diagnosis aid, Diagnosaurus, for iPhone and iPod touch....MORE

Physicians Ignore e-Alerts when Prescribing

A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine studied the actions of more than 2800 physicians in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in generating 3.5 million electronic prescriptions. One in 15 of these prescriptions resulted in an alert for a drug interaction or allergy, more than 98% of which were for a drug the patient was already taking. In more than 90% of interaction warnings and 77% of drug allergy alerts, the clinician overrode the warning...MORE

Google Enables Sharing of Personal Health Records

Google has announced changes that enable individuals to share their health profiles with health care providers. Access to invitees is limited to 30 days, viewers can not change a profile, and owners can see a report listing all viewers. MORE...

Doctor Visits Via the Internet

Several companies now connect patients to physicians with telemedicine services. After completing forms about history and chief complaints, patients and physicians meet using online video, text chat, or phone....MORE