Thursday, July 26, 2007

iPhone Running Electronic Medical Records!

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) compatible with the infamous iPhone. Everything from office notes to prescriptions, x-rays to echos can be viewed in all their multi-touch screen glory on the iPhone. Not to worry, this sexy little program isn't just for hip, trendy physicians - soon even patients will be able to access their medical records while downloading songs from iTunes.

Imagine having access to your patient accounts in the palm of your hand. Take it a step further and put the best, most elegant user interface on it, surrounded by beauty and a full blown web experience and you have EMR on the iPhone. Already have an iPhone? Take it for a spin. Open Safari up on your iPhone and prepare to be blown away. Don't say we didn't warn you! :)

Applaud the effort, but pretty much any standards-based web UI that doesn't use Flash (at the moment) will work on the iPhone. That doesn't make it an "iPhone Application". It means that the iPhone is a capable web browser and should work with sites similar to how any small laptop or computer would.

iPhone apps are just webapps, but there is a clear and obvious difference between one that is just another website that happens to work on the iPhone and one that was specifically designed for small-screen/touch-based input+slow EDGE speeds. I vastly prefer viewing the latter on my iPhone because I don't have to scroll and zoom all the time to see the entire page, and it loads in a couple seconds and not in one minute.

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