Medscape Mobile

New iPhone/iTouch app that brings physicians a great drug reference, interaction checker, a multimedia clinical reference, medical news and CME! Free for your iPhone/iTouch.

Medscape Mobile

FCC Broadband Plan Advocates Mobile Medical Apps, Electronic Health Records - Health Care IT from eWeek

The FCC's new Broadband Plan has a large section advocating for increasing broadband to accommodate mobile health solutions for physicians and patients.

FCC Broadband Plan Advocates Mobile Medical Apps, Electronic Health Records - Health Care IT from eWeek

Using PDAs in Medical School Works

A recently published study found that medical students completed 11 times more case entries than students using paper logs. There were a host of other promising outcomes that seem to support computerized logs over paper-based methods.

The impact of a personal digital assistant (PDA) c... [Teach Learn Med. 2009] - PubMed result

Tracking and Sharing Observations from Daily Life Could Transform Chronic Care Management - RWJF

Mobile solutions being funded by RWJ for your patients. We have seen the use of the Apple iPhone solution "LoseIt" gaining popularity in our clinic and among patients. Are any others being used successfully by patients in your practice?

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.

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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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.