Top Medical Apps for iPhone

A nice selection of some of the more useful apps for iPhones. Stay tuned for my own top 10 in the next few weeks.

Majority of Physicians Using Smartphones

I'm not surprised by this new survey data reported in the Wall Street Journal. It showed that 64% of physicians are using smartphones, and they project that this will increase to 81% by 2011. The real question is....how many are actually using them for important, medically-related tasks? As apps continue to mature, gain credibility, and become easily delivered (particularly on devices other than iPhones), this potential should increase dramatically in the next few years.

Palm thinks small with new Pixi smartphone | Wireless - CNET News

Palm thinks small with new Pixi smartphone | Wireless - CNET News

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Palm Pixi Announced!

The latest device by Palm, the "Pixi," will be released soon. Like Centro meets Palm Pre, a very sleek device that will entice many new users to the new Palm WebOS.

MedCalc App Review (v1.2)

MedCalc is a free medical calculator. It helps you calculate a litany of different medical formulas and has some other helpful features. Some of these features are the pregnancy wheel, dermatome map, eye chart, and growth velocity. Let me make this clear right now, I think you should definitely try this app before you pay for one of the other medical calculators out there.

MedCalc App Review (v1.2)

Classic from Motion Apps to offer synchronization between Palm Pre and Desktop

Motion Apps just released a video of Palm Pre connecting with a desktop to install classic Palm programs and synchronized wirelessly with your desktop. I'm disappointed this wasn't handled internally by Palm, but letting the developer world do it's magic is so much a part of Palm's history, that I'm not surprised. The outcome is the same....all your old Palm apps should be able to run on the Palm Pre and synchronize with the desktop!

Adding Apps to your Blackberry

Blackberry released a new app called "Blackberry App World," enabling users to easily download software to their devices similar to the iPhone app store. Read more on this program and how to install it here.

A Week With the Palm Pre SmartPhone

Nice review.

Many old Palm Apps Should run with MotionApps emulator

This is a list of the thousands of apps that will now run on the Palm Pre using MotionApps' exciting new emulator. Read the list at this site and suggest new ones to be tested.

New Palm Pre is Available in Sprint Stores

I just played with the new Palm Pre and am pretty impressed. Definitely better than an iPhone! Next step is to find programs that will run legacy Palm apps. My understanding is that there are a few already available. If developers pick this up like they have the iPhone, it will be a killer phone!

Could addiction treatment be automated?

A multi-disciplinary conference came up with a bold vision of automated addiction treatment in the year 2020.  In my research, we are already looking at the automation of smoking cessation and alcohol misuse/abuse diagnosis and treatment.  Could this be the future?  Read more here.

A Look Back at Healthcare IT in 2008

A brief overview of the main healthcare IT issues from 2008. It looks like there is a lot of room for expanding this commentary and coming up with a comprehensive approach to reforming healthcare IT as Obama's economic stimulus plan may have as much as $25B to invest in improving our IT systems. An emphasis on interoperability, mobility and open-source would seem to make sense. (registration may be necessary to view content on Modern Healthcare)

New Palm Phone and Operating System Launched!

Finally! A new phone from Palm. The new Operating Systems is designed to be "web-centric" and enables running multiple applications at once. The launcher and touch screen are very similar to the iPhone's. The form factors is actually thinner than the iPhone. IN addition, it has a slide-down QWERTY keyboard. This might be the best thing from Palm in years. I will be blogging in the coming weeks on medical applications that can work on the new Operating System, but my guess is that it will run all of the old Palm applications, plus a lot of new applications that will emerge. You can read more and see videos here. The device is going to launch exclusively through Sprint in the first half of this year.