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.