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Surgeons connect with iPhone 4's FaceTime videoconferencing app
Surprise, surprise! Doctors have already been finding ways to incorporate the new iPhone 4 and its videoconferencing features into their practice of medicine. Well, at least a few intrepid physicians... Read more...
New Cius tablet takes on Apple's iPad
Many people thought the iPhone was going to shake up mobile healthcare until Google's Android operating system came along. The same could happen for larger devices, too. Though Apple has sold more... Read more...
Epic developing iPad app as hospitals wrestle with how to deploy Apple's tablet
After releasing an iPhone app called Haiku earlier this year, privately held EMR vendor Epic Systems is developing Canto, a native app for the iPad, CMIO reports. And clinical leaders at Tampa... Read more...
Physicians split on iPad's impact as healthcare apps debut
The iPad won't be on sale for another month, but the floodgates have already opened for apps to run on the new Apple device, the healthcare field included. We report elsewhere in today's newsletter... Read more...
iPad 'commandments': 'Mobile, capable and handy' device could be a breakthrough
Apple's new iPad hasn't even hit the market yet, but people already are making big plans to use the portable device in healthcare. Mobile physician Dr. Blaine Warkentine and "e-futurist" Doug... Read more...
Epic releases EMR app for iPhone
As is its custom, Epic Systems this month quietly released a long-awaited iPhone app for secure, mobile access to electronic medical records. Called Haiku, the app is a free download on iTunes for... Read more...
Apple said to be targeting hospitals with Mac tablet
In recent months, Apple has been rumored to be developing a tablet-style computer that would marry the sleek functionality of the iPhone with, well, the sleek functionality of a MacBook. Now we get... Read more...
Apple, Epic Systems teaming up on mobile EHR trial at Stanford
We'd heard the rumors that Apple was working to take advantage of the fact that so many physicians have spent their own money on iPhones. We knew that Apple had convened a meeting among a number of... Read more...
Mobile apps push more clinical data to smartphones
Here at FierceMobileHealthcare, we're fairly sure a good number of you, our loyal readers, saw the story in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday about how Apple and Research in Motion are making... 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...
