Apple released this great video showing off how the iPad can be used in a medical setting. The video features St. Louis Urgent Cares.
For more information, apple.com.
The video shows off how drchrono makes doctors mobile.
As an Electronic Medical Record company, we strive to do our very best to improve the workflow of doctors. This means helping with billing, scheduling, educating patients, making notations easier, making actions with minimal clicks, finding information on drug interactions, indications, and results faster; and making our product as simple and beautiful as possible. There is no doubt we have this perspective largely from our own artistic personas — but, one man has always inspired each member of our team to perform at our very best. This man is Steve Jobs.
When we started drchrono, we knew we wanted to deliver the best product to our physicians and customers. How could we do this? What physical hardware would be the most stable for a doctor? The answer was the iPad. Why? The answer lies within Steve Jobs’ leadership and the Apple Teams’ insane dedication to creating the best product they can muster. This is evident when you have Steve calling Vic Gundotra (a gentleman working within Google’s mobile application team, at the time) on Sunday asking him to speak about an urgent matter. The matter was the color of the second “O” in Google’s logo not having the “right” yellow gradient on the iPhone.
When you have the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world calling about the gradient of an “O,” it’s evident that such a company is focused on the best user experience. Apple doesn’t revolutionizing new features. They’re rather about perfecting what they have. They dazzle — taking today’s technology and building the best experience a user can see, hear, and touch. The best functionality. The most simple. The highest level of elegance. It’s about taking the paint in our palettes, and creating our Sistine Chapel.
We seek constant improvement. We seek to continually iterate, change, grow, improve, enhance, minimize, until we are the best we can be — which we will never be. It is the strive for perfection, with the understanding that we will never be perfect. Through this, we will continually be making better and better products. We will be continuing to make our products and services more valuable, with the lowest exertion of time and effort on our customers as possible. This is what Steve Jobs has inspired within us. And, it is for this reason, we bid a grand farewell and send our best to Apple’s CEO.
Thank you, Mr. Jobs!
iCloud is a service that Apple has just released. This product allows iPad, iPhone, iPod and mac users to sync data. So the main focus of this product is to allow users to sync music, documents, photos, calendars and apps across all devices, somewhat like dropbox. Dropboxs syncs data via folders.
So how does this relate to healthcare? The answer is easy, the key thing I mentioned above is “App” syncing. If you download an app, for example the drchrono iPad EHR, the user, you, will be able to sync across devices. So for example if you own 5 iPads, that you use in your healthcare practice, you can sync them all. So if you drop one and lose it in the drop, no problem, all apps will be synced! This goes for your macs, etc. So you see were I am going, you can sync apps to have them on all of your devices to save you time and to give them to your staff if you wanted to. Everyone in your practice will have all of the same apps, synced. Hence, your iCloud account will sync all apps across all iPads!
So would you really want iCloud? If you own an iPhone, iPod, iPad or mac, or a multiple of them the answer is yes, you should have iCloud.
First off some of you might be asking what is WWDC? WWDC is the official apple developer conference. It is held annually in Californa and brings the greatest minds in technology together. Apple developers are at the event, other developers as well, all focusing on developing on the apple platform like us.
A link to the keynote is from WWDC is here here.
WWDC was inspiring. Every time WWDC happens it helps our team at drchrono innovate. We watch the keynotes, the developer talks and brain storm about what we can use from the developer conference and apply it to heathcare.
Just a few key slides from the presentations, take a look at how apple is moving up in the laptop world.
If you are thinking about about changing the world through healthcare, check out the WWDC conference next year!
If you are a DrChrono subscriber and have an iPhone, download our iPhone app, it comes as part of the DrChrono service.
You can download the iPhone EHR app here.
