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.
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This weeks Grandround theme is Iphone, so I am planning to write some thing related to Iphone and medical feild. I am writing about health care applications currently available to be used in Iphone. This list will be constantly updated as feasible.
You can currently access free online drug reference Epocrates on the iPhone or iPod touch by visiting m.epocrates.com/iphone which contain updated reference includes information on more than 3,300 brand name and generic drugs
Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) announced today that medical images can be viewed on Apple’s new iPhone. Physicians can simply click on a web link sent via email by one of their colleagues, enter their password, and, for example, instantly view movies of a patient’s beating heart halfway around the world. They can even put their colleagues on speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously browsing through the imaging results.
The MIM iPhone Application is a new multi-modality imaging application for the Apple® iPhoneTM and iPod® touch. This innovative software allows a referring physician or patient to view medical images remotely, without being tied to an imaging workstation.
Life Record In Your Office, On Your Desk, In Your Car, And On Your iPhone Life Record is a web enabled application. That means it works under any platform. If you’re a Mac user, plug it in and go. More on the techie side and use Linux? We have you covered. Viruses are your game? Then load it on your Microsoft Windows based system. Do you do a lot of surgeries and need access to your patients no matter where you are? Then use your iPhone and pull up a full Medical record, make updates and even write prescriptions with the touch of your finger. From your office, the beach, golf course or a restaurant, Life Record is ready when you are.
Notice on their website: This is an EXPERIMENTAL version – it is NOT a product, nor is its presence here a commitment of any kind, express or implied, that StyleTap Inc. will ever release an official version of StyleTap CrossPlatform for Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.
MacPractice on Iphone: MacPractice patient management software is now has iphone interfase.
ClearHealth On Iphone: It is still an alpha release. More info from their website below.
This native iPhone application allows a provider to connect to your clearhealth installation and view schedules, select/search patients, and view lab results. This is an ALPHA quality release and there are several known issues detailed below. We would love to have feedback on the general structure of the application, installation deployment problems, feature requests, etc. Please report these in the forum or on this thread.
This is an experimental iPhone application to measure steps as you walk. Install it manually by downloading this and installing all the bits into the proper folders on the iPhone (complicated) or by installing AppTapp, installing the Community Sources package, and then selecting Pedometer (easy and preferred way).
Ipod software for keeping track of blood sugar levels for diabetics
Features: – Enter/Edit/Delete blood glucose – List Views: Today, Week, Month, All – Reports: Average, Min, Max of blood glucose level and insulin dose
An electronic Medical record (EMR) refers to an individual patient’s medical record in digital format. This type of medical record keeping is probably what we will have in 10 to 20 years in time, when we won’t be using paper any more probably for green reason, and also as part of moving on with latest technology.
Advantages of using EMR are many. These include easy data entry, easy data maintenance, easy data retrivability, Long term storage, and preventing duplication of records. They are also extremely useful in Clinical audits and research. There are some disadvantages especially with old data which is in paper it would be very difficult to get these into electronic format. Duplication of records especially if patient gets admitted to different departments or different hospitals, especially when they different kinds of EMR. Here comes use of standardisation of EMR soft ware. Security of EMR is problem, especially online ones because the data can be prey to hackers. Cost of initial setting up may be higher in certain context, especially in radiology applications.
In our hospital we found PACS system was very useful radiology applications. Initial installation of this programme was expensive because we have to change most of hardware. But when we audited we found we are actually spending less not having to print the films and not having to repeat the lost films. We also have different software MEDETEC for regular data entry, it is unix based and very cumbersome to use. you need little time to get used to the software. Once you get used to using MEDETEC I found extremely useful in adding and retriving data. Overall I felt they were very useful but need little more standardised.
