Is Apple poised to intrude on the EMR space?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 01:08PM 
Being merely a pseudo-tech (someone who plays with technology but could never describe what was under the hood, unlike a real geek), I have followed the EMR discussion with peripheral interest. I do know there's big money to be made by whomever gets it right!
This post about rumors of a pending Mac Tablet for EMRs was sent to me by Houston Neal of San Francisco-based softwareadvice (now he sounds like a geek!) so I thought I'd pass it on to all iPhone lovers.
A couple of post highlights:
An Apple tablet would be the ultimate UI for electronic medical records. With a touch-screen display like the iPhone, using the EMR during an encounter would be simplified. For example, selecting an evaluation and management (E&M) code could be as easy as “dialing in” the code with a swipe of a finger.
... Using iPhone speech recognition technology, physicians could dictate directly into an EMR to create notes, draft narrative reports or generate custom patient instructions. Mac design programs could be repurposed to make a really slick tablet drawing tool for anatomical diagrams that illustrate procedures and diagnoses.
... In addition to being a killer UI (PK adds: this is User Interface for the uninitiated), a Mac Tablet would be extremely useful because of it’s mobile capabilities. The foremost benefit would be having the ability to access a database of digital medical records from anywhere, assuming it has 3G mobile connectivity (e.g. AT&T). That is of huge value to a physician that splits time between the office, hospitals, surgery centers, nursing homes, etc.
What do you think?
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