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RE: Healthcare clamors for iPhone treatments

TheJammer 19th Mar 2008

I am going to be entering the health care profession this year. I firmly believe that this coming generation of medical professionals will readily adopt and use such new technology as the Apple iPhone. The iPhone is unique to such a market over competing PDAs such as RIM's Blackberry, and the Palm Pilot as it allows for a friendly but highly customizable user interface, as well as ability to instantly update information via the internet. I am exited to see the release of the iPhone and iPod Touch SDK, and I hope to see many new healthcare related applications for these two devices in the coming years. With the March 6 iPhone/ iPod Touch SDK kit release, we can already see clinical applications appearing. Apple had invited various software developers to spend two weeks to develop software for the iPhone. One guest invited was Epocrates, a leading provider of handheld clinical applications for use by physicians, including one of every four physicians in the United States. In a matter of two weeks, one programmer, Glenn Keighley, was able to create an entire drug list including pictures of each drug, and reactions they have with each other, all while preserving the unique, user-friendly interface of the iPhone. If such an application can be developed in two weeks, I can only imagine what other powerful clinical applications developers could make for the iPhone, especially as I enter the Medical field.