When I was at MIT, a postdoc heard I had just picked up a brand spanking new Compaq 386 with dual 5.25″ and 3.5″ floppy drives. He wanted my computer bad for he needed it to do some robotics programming. This being my brand new computer with all the bells and whistles, I was very [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
A Tribute
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Apple, iPad, Steve Jobs on October 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
CNBC Takes a Look at iPad Adoption
Posted in mHealth, tagged Apple, iPad on March 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Chilmark Research was contacted earlier this week by CNBC, via Twitter, regarding a story they were doing on iPad adoption in healthcare. Always nice to see a well done story on the topic (hat’s off to CNBC producer Ruth Coxeter and reporter Bertha Coombs). Of course, seeing Chilmark Research prominently quoted sure puts a smile [...]
Why Apple iPad will Dominate in the Enterprise
Posted in Google, mHealth, tagged Android, App Store, Apple, healthcare, healthcare IT, iPad, iPad 2 on March 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Ok, before I even begin, let me put it right out there: I’ve been using Apple products since I first got my hands on one of those cute little Mac SEs in the late 80′s having given up my spanking, brand new Compaq 386 with 64kb of RAM and a dual 3.5 & 5.25 floppy [...]
A Bite of the Apple
Posted in consumer health, Google, tagged Android, Apple, clinical groupware, iOS4.0, iPhone 4, mHealth on June 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, with much fanfare, Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple’s annual developer conference and announced the pending release of the next iteration of the iPhone. While there has been plenty of press regarding this release, both before (and Apple’s Dark Lord tactics) and after, Job’s presentation also highlighted a number of facts and figures [...]
iPad in Healthcare: A Game Changer?
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, mHealth, policy, tagged adoption, Apple, ARRA, healthcare, HITECH Act, iPad, medical, medical education on April 8, 2010 | 18 Comments »
There have been a lot of discussions on the Net regarding the potential impact of the iPad in the healthcare sector. At this point, there is very little agreement with some pointing to the ubiquitous nature of the iPhone in healthcare as a foreshadowing of the iPad’s future impact, while others point to the modest [...]
Apple Targets Healthcare Enterprise
Posted in PHR, tagged AllScripts, Apple, case studies, ePocrates, iPhone on March 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
While the Apple iPhone was first targeted at the general consumer, Apple has been taking the necessary steps to bring this device into the enterprise, directly competing with RIM’s Blackberry. Unseating the Blackberry in many sectors, such as finance, may be near impossible but healthcare is another story. Within healthcare, Palm, with its Treo was [...]
BlackBerry Application Storefront Coming
Posted in Google, tagged Android, Apple, Blackberry, iPhone, mHealth on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following on the hugely successful iPhone AppStore and the more recent Google Android Market, Research In Motion (RIM) intends to launch its own Application Storefront for the BlackBerry in March. ZDnet interviewed the folks at RIM on their plans, which was published today, following RIM’s announcement Monday of accepting submissions from 3rd party developers. Late [...]
Backstory on iPhone PHR: Interview with My Life Record CTO
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged adoption, Apple, AppStore, iPhone, iTouch, MobileMe on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Late last week I had the chance to speak with the creators of the only true PHR (no, I do not consider simple ICE-type apps a PHR) that I know of which was purposely designed for the iPhone, My Life Record. Background: My Life Record was created by the small company, Life Record based in [...]
Mobile Health and the iPhone
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged Apple, AppStore, health, Hellohealth, iPhone, Myca, MyLifeRecord on July 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There has been a tremendous amount of buzz regarding the latest iPhone release with most of the attention focusing on the 3G and GPS capabilities of the new iPhone. But one of the biggest features may turn out to be the AppStore, providing you health specific apps to take with you on your iPhone. The [...]
No Big Deal – A.D.A.M. Introduces Consumer iPhone App
Posted in consumer health, PHR, telehealth, tagged A.D.A.M., Apple, Diet.com, ePocrates, iPhone, mobile apps on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Couple of months back, Apple had a big press conference where it stated that it would provide developers more flexibility to create new applications for the iPhone. Much fanfare was made of the announcement, which included a clinical-centric demo of running ePocrates on the iPhone. Seems as though there was a fairly large contingent of [...]
