Medical Practice Chat Wall In Free iPad EHR

Our team will be releasing the first version of our EHR practice wall in the next version of our app, all chats will be posted to the practice wall. Doctors and staff will see a feed of “practice chatter” information. Doctors and staff will be able to chat with each other in real time through our web platform and through iPads.

Communication is one of our main focus’s in a mobile EHR and it is something that a number of our users have asked for. We are focusing first on rolling this out to our iPad EHR app and to our web platform. It should be about in the new few coming weeks!

iPad EHR, iPhone EHR and web platform communication are all the future of healthcare from within the practice to doctor-patient communication. The practice wall is just one of the features we are rolling out to make mobile EMR communication better. Think of the first version like an internal medical practice Twitter stream, it is going to be really amazing!

Interested in trying iPad practice chatter out? Signup and check the app out in the next few weeks!

iPad Mounting System – Stuff for Your Medical Practice

Check out this amazing mount, you can place iPad’s anywhere in your practice without worry of them being misplaced.

Get them from amazon here.

Once we rollout our patient facing app for patient onboading you can think about where you want to put these!

Usability is the Most Important Factor for EHR Adoption

Why is anything successful? Because people like to use it. Usability drives the doctor to pick it up because they enjoy the interface. They enjoy how they are in the driver’s seat, and it’s why people generally enjoy driving a Porsche over a Ford Taurus.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter as much how important EHR’s are to improve health care delivery, or to list all of the benefits of electronic storage of health information. Rambling on about $44K stimulus packages, Obamacare, electronic prescribing, immunization registries, or medication reconciliation will only get you so far.

Health care professionals desire a new approach because they all know the one they’re using now isn’t quite cutting it. They are thirsty for something innovative, easy to use, and elegantly beautiful. Usability will drive EHR growth, leaving all others variables behind.

Case in point, Kalorama Information released a study March 1st, 2011, exploring the EHR world. EHR growth is expected to increase 15% per year until 2015. Kalorama Information found in their study that it’s the usability of the EHR that will be the ultimate deciding factor in the growth market for EHR’s.

Practice management is the second biggest segment, predicted to grow at nearly 11% per year until 2015.

Check out our elegant iPad-based user interface by signing up for a free account here. We offer your complete solution to managing an office while taking the best care of your patients.

Food Dyes Debate Draws On

This past week, an article was published in the New York Times entitled Artificial Dye Safe to Eat, Panel Says. In it, they argue that an expert panel has concluded that there is no proof that artificial food colorings cause hyperactivity in most children. This government panel further decided that there is no need for the foods to carry warning labels of potential to cause hyperactivity.

Curiously, 6 out of the 14 experts voted that a warning label was needed. This means that 43% of the panel found the evidence linking food coloring to ADHD alarming enough to suggest warning labels on all foods with artificial coloring.

I think it’s overwhelmingly premature to make such a bold statement as “Artificial Dye Safe to Eat” when only one expert could have tipped the balance to a 50-50 split decision.

Perfect iPad 2 Case for Your Mobile EMR

Below is a great case that is coming out for the iPad 2 for your medical practice:

Speck HandyShell

This case is a very one hand friendly case, you can be looking at a patient and not worry about having to hold your iPad with both hands.
You can use the flipout handle as a thumb ring for the one-hand grip, a stand for portrait or landscape viewing, or even hang your iPad up.

It comes out in Late April 2011, it isn’t out yet! The cost is $54.95.

Make sure after you get your iPad 2 and your Speck HandyShell to load in our free electronic medical records platform app.