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Physician smartphone adoption said to top 80 percent by 2012
More than 80 percent of U.S. physicians will have smartphones by 2012--up from 64 percent in 2009--and half of that group will use their phones for patient care, administrative functions like charge... Read more...
Mobile apps popular at the point of care, but there's plenty more to come
Smartphones are so popular in medicine now that some health professionals "don't know how colleagues manage without them," C. Peter Waegemann, vice president of development for the Boston-based... Read more...
Start-up firm consolidates nurse paging and communications on iPhone
About three years ago, Trey Lauderdale was working with a telecom equipment company that counted a number of hospitals among its clientèle. He heard that nurses and IT managers were frustrated... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Android apps
Lest anyone forget, there's a fifth mobile operating system out there, joining Palm OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone in a very competitive marketplace. It's from Google and it's an... Read more...
