Saturday, March 06, 2010

Review of Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus

Both of these devices are now available on the Verizon network and you can read the full reviews here.   The main difficulty with these devices as a busy physician is the battery life.  Make sure to optimize your battery time and have spare batteries and chargers!  Otherwise, the interface and usability is outstanding.

Friday, February 19, 2010

How to maximize battery life on your iPhone

If you're a busy doc, you need to use all these tips for maximizing battery life so you can make those patient and pharmacy calls on the drive home without missing dinner or frantically looking for youe iPhone charger. Even more important if you receive text pages through your iPhone, or when you are traveling! Stay tuned for tips on the Palm Pre in my next blog


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Thursday, November 12, 2009

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.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

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.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

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)