CareTools Inc., an industry recognized mobile healthcare information technology leader, today announced its native digital medical record system iChart for iPhone and iPod touch will be available tomorrow on the Apple App Store. This application was developed specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch platforms as a digital medical assistant. It has four modules.
iPrescribing to administer patient medications
iBilling to organize and submit billing records
iLab Reports to manage laboratory data
iNotes to write, store and transfer electronic notes
iChart has been designed to act as an electronic “personal medical assistant” and focuses on streamlining the daily “chart, bill and fill” routine of every healthcare provider. iChart leverages the advanced capabilities of iPhone and iPod touch to warehouse patient data, and images, in addition to providing an updated list of medications, drug interactions, pharmacies, billing codes and complaint specific clinical templates. Synchronization of new information is accomplished wirelessly using secure web technology and iChart allows a single provider or entire healthcare network to automate medical data capture and effortlessly look-up patient related information using an efficiently designed “touch and tap” interface.
The iChart application can be configured to synchronize data to the user’s included iChart Sync online account, where data can be viewed, shared and printed via a standard web browser. Group and enterprise accounts can setup data sharing teams and leverage data input by iChart teammates in near real-time. Caretools also offers each user the opportunity to link to community or enterprise lab results via a central HL7 gateway, and route prescriptions to national e-Prescribing networks. The iChart application will priced from $139 and can be downloaded wirelessly from the App Store using iPhone or iPhone touch.
I have recently written a post about medical software for Iphone. Now I am tring to do same for Dental applications and software. Slowly but surely I will write here all the software applications relating to dentistry that are available on Iphone. If you know any please leave a note in comment
Now you can access Denticon Web-Based Practice Management from your iPhone anywhere. Various features of this software include schedule and scheduling management, clinical record management, patient accounts management, accounts receivable management, electronic insurance billing, insurance claims management, digital radiography, online patient registration, communication, and robust reporting capabilities. This service is brought to you by PlanetDDS.
The Certification Commission CCHIT is a recognized certification body for electronic health records and their networks. It is private but nonprofit initiative.
Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of health information technology by creating an efficient, credible and sustainable certification program
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To day I saw an interesting post in Reuters news it talks about narrative medicine. It is about Emotional writing which helps to make feel better. Link
Some cancer patients may find that putting their emotions down in writing helps improve their pain and general well-being, a study suggests.
Such writing, part of a concept called “narrative” medicine, has been seen as a way to aid communication between seriously ill patients and their doctors.
But the act of writing, itself, may also help patients better understand themselves and their needs, according to the study team, led by Dr. M. Soledad Cepeda of Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.
To look at the question, they randomly assigned 234 cancer patients to one of three groups: one that was asked to perform narrative writing; one that filled out a standard questionnaire about pain symptoms; and one that stayed with standard care only.
AirStrip Technologies, L.P., a pioneer in medical software applications for handheld devices, today announced it is in the advanced stages of development for its innovative AirStrip OB™ medical application for the new Apple iPhone 3G.
AirStrip OB, which is already available for use on PDAs and Smartphones, will allow obstetricians to use their iPhones to remotely access virtual real-time and historical waveform data for both the mother and baby directly from the hospital’s labor and delivery unit utilizing only a cell phone connection. A beta version of the AirStrip OB iPhone application will be completed by the end of the month, with AirStrip OB scheduled to be available for use by physicians on iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2008.
The AirStrip OB iPhone application will provide users with multi-touch capabilities to quickly scroll and zoom through critical data, including contraction and fetal heart waveform patterns. The AirStrip OB iPhone version will be taking advantage of not only the expanded iPhone screen size, but also Apple’s newly announced push notification service to send alerts to physicians based on individual physician customization. Furthermore, AirStrip OB on the iPhone will allow doctors to add patients to a “My Patients” list that will help physicians navigate through data more efficiently when time is of the essence.
“The Apple iPhone 3G represents a quantum leap forward in handheld technology, and we know Apple is excited about our proven success and its possibilities on the iPhone,” said Trey Moore, CTO of AirStrip Technologies. “Our aggressive development schedule ensures that we will continue to realize our goals of delivering our products on any device utilizing any type of wireless connection. This ultimately places AirStrip OB within reach of virtually any hospital and doctor that wants to implement this technology to improve patient safety, mitigate risk and improve overall communication among caregivers.”
The FDA-cleared AirStrip OB solution is the only product of its kind available in the U.S. and is already in use in more than 40 hospitals and hospital chains using Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform. The product allows secure access to this vital data, ensuring the physician can keep a close eye on patients’ progress from virtually anywhere.
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