Physicians Practice Special Report on Handhelds

Use of handheld data devices by physicians has been steadily on the rise. According to AC Nielsen, 57 percent of physicians increased their use of handheld wireless devices in 2007. The same survey found that an average of 38 percent of physicians used handheld wireless devices for professional purposes. By specialty, emergency medicine led the field, with 58 percent of EM physicians using handheld devices. Read this informative report for more information on the use of handhelds for e-prescribing, charge capture and medical records as well as great buying guides just in time for Christmas!

Lexi-comp on-Hand released for iPhone and Apple Touch

Lexi-comp, a popular and powerful drug information database has just been released for these platforms. To read more, click here.

Transcription for iPhone

M*modal has just released a new speech recognition transcription product for the iPhone. This appears to be a promising technology that I will evaluate in the coming weeks and post back about it's usefulness.

New Mobile Dictation Software from PocketMed

My company, PocketMed, has just partnered with a premiere mobile dictation provider as well as an off-shore transcription company to provide affordable, reliable mobile dictation for physicians in small to medium-sized practices. For more information and to sign up for a free, no-obligation, 2-week trial, please contact: Fred Clark on 954-229-5050 ext. 77.

Top Technology Innovations in 2008

Health Data Management has a good supplement that talks about the top technology solutions for 2008. Many of these make a lot of sense for small practices (e.g. claims submission, mobile dictation, practice management systems, etc.), but most of the sponsors are cost-prohibitive for most primary care offices and other small practice groups. In the coming weeks I plan to highlight companies that provide these services reliably and affordably for these groups. In the meanwhile, the business case for each of these services is very well described in this free e-book.

New E-Prescribing Guide for Clinicians

A comprehensive E-prescribing guide has just been published by eHealth initiative.   It has information for physicians at any stage of engaging in this process and includes full descriptions, a buyer's guide, a listing of state initiatives and much more in a very readable report.  Click here to download the guide.

Turn Your Treo into a BlackBerry

Many people ask me if they should purchase a BlackBerry in order to receive their e-mail automatically, or to be able to check it whenever and wherever they want. Fortunately, this is pretty easy to set up on a Treo using a free e-mail forwarding service throught fastmail.fm That way, you can continue to use all the great medical programs (which you won't be able to do on a BlackBerry). To read about doing this, click here