Reaching for the Stars: Mobile Devices and Solutions for Healthcare

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re: Reaching for the Stars: Mobile Devices and Solutions for Healthcare

Jason — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:32:28 GMT

I took a walk yesterday with my wife along the beach. I looked up and noticed the moon. Its almost hard to believe that man has walked on the moon in our attempt to reach the stars. Then i thought about the technology that has come after those flights to the moon. The focus of much of humanities interest has been on communication.

re: Reaching for the Stars: Mobile Devices and Solutions for Healthcare

Peter Beck — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:58:15 GMT

The vast majority of practicing MD's (in the U.S.) are technological Luddites. Less than a fifth -- probably closer to a tenth -- use EMR; less than 20% of U.S. residency programs teach its use. Not many of my colleagues even have a website for their practices, to say nothing of EMR; and almost none have more than a vague name recognition of "blogs," "search engines," or "podcasts." Feed readers, RSS, SEO, and social media are totally foreign concepts.

It's high time physicians enter the 21st century -- heck, I'd settle for the 20th.

Like the progress of general tech adoption, it'll likely be driven by the younger generation (of physicians), comfortable with its use, as well as leveraging it to great advantage in their practices.

Those of us still in practice CAN successfully adopt these technologies, if we're interested in the competitive advantages they bestow, financially and "thought leadership"-wise. But there's a learning curve, and a lag that early adopters won't have to deal with.

re: Reaching for the Stars: Mobile Devices and Solutions for Healthcare

hlthblog — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:49:06 GMT

Thanks for your comments, Peter. I agree that the next generation of physicians will help drive more widespread adoption of IT in healthcare. I would urge my colleagues in medical education to encourage the use of IT. Far too often I have observed medical educators, themselves uncomfortable with contemporary information worker tools, computers, and PDAs, actually discouraging their use on clinical wards. That should never happen!

Bill Crounse, MD

Mobility, data input, and telephonic solutions for busy clinicians

HealthBlog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:05:58 GMT

I've written before on HealthBlog about the importance of providing data input options in IT solutions

Mobility, data input, and telephonic solutions for busy clinicians

Noticias externas — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:38:20 GMT

I've written before on HealthBlog about the importance of providing data input options in IT solutions

HealthBlog : Mobility, data input, and telephonic solutions for busy clinicians

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Hopping along toward better health in Western Australia

HealthBlog — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:02:27 GMT

Regular HealthBlog readers know that I often find symbolism in things that I see as I travel the world.