Comments on: Survey Results: Which Smartphone Will Own the Healthcare Market?

By: MH

MH — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:35:33 +0000

I would also like to see an update of this survey. I feel that the smartphone market has opened up immensely since this survey took place.

By: Anne Gunn

Anne Gunn — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:09 +0000

Chris, it would be great to see an update of this study after a year+ has passed, so many more great apps have been published for Android, and RIM is fighting back. I was at a nursing conference a couple of weeks ago and saw an awful lot of Blackberries.
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By: CrossShore Solutions

CrossShore Solutions — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:28:48 +0000

I believe that majority of the enterprise applications (EHR / EMR) are build on either JAVA or Microsoft .NET Platform. This leads me to think about Windows Mobile Phones pretty strong because many development firms do have customers with their enterprise apps on Microsoft platform and now if they give a synchronization process along with a piece of a useful software like e-prescribing or patient record on Windows Mobile then I see an interesting stand for Windows Mobile along with iPhone in this market.

I agree with one of the comments that iPhone development is time intensive and time is money in software industry so in the same nexus I believe that the companies acquiring the Microsoft Development Expertise will drive their clientèle on Windows Mobile by showing an incomparable advantage of seamless integration of enterprise data on their smart phone device.

By: Chris Thorman

Chris Thorman — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:25:51 +0000

@DP

I wish we could have gotten more respondents as well but our resources were fairly limited. Our goal was to spark some conversation on the topic and I think we’ve done that. We’re pretty interested in smartphones over here

By: DP

DP — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:31:55 +0000

I saw that CNN/Fortune covered this piece of research: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/04/six-out-of-10-doctors-prefer-iphones/

Their article mentions that all the graphs and conclusions you have made are based on a total number of 71 responses. Is that true? If so, it’s hardly in-depth research, more anecdotal thoughts to back up your view…

It’s an interesting topic so, if this is the case, shame the research isn’t truly insightful.

By: Chris Thorman

Chris Thorman — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:25:53 +0000

NetDoc.com is talking about the survey as well and they’re touching on e-prescribing.

Check it out:

http://www.netdoc.com/Physician-Practice-Articles/General-Medical-Practice/The-iPhone-leads-in-the-healthcare-niche/

By: Chris Thorman

Chris Thorman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:58:49 +0000

The ability to run apps in the background (multi-task) will have to become part of the iPhone for it to survive.

Good points. I still think the iPhone has too much momemtum to be stopped. There are just so many people with iPhones…

By: DRam, MD

DRam, MD — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:43:00 +0000

The iPhone currently rules the medical world, no question. We can thank the many thousands of apps for that. I am also not surprised to see the Palm Pre mentioned only once in this article: the device has been out for LESS THAN TWO MONTHS as of this writing.

… but I think the Palm Pre has some real potential here. Reasons are three-fold:
1) WebOS is based on HTML, CSS, and Javascript. For those who don’t know tech-speak, this is the same language used in constructing the web content you see and use every day on the web. Translation? It’s extremely easy to write for! Ask the folks over at Pandora… whereas it took them MONTHS to write software for the iPhone, they had a working model for the Palm Pre in THREE DAYS! In the software development business, time is money. There are physicians… not programmers or developers, but PHYSICIANS… writing simple medical apps for the Palm Pre RIGHT now on precentral.net’s homebrew app section. That’s right, kids, doctors are writing Palm Pre programs from their basements.

… it also goes without saying that Apple is one of the most restrictive and painfully proprietary environments for developers to work in.

2) Palm OS has a long history of medical apps that can STILL be used on the Palm Pre’s emulator……. FOR NOW……. while native WebOS applications catch up in number. I’m already running all of the old apps I used on my old Palm Treo, and it works very, very well.

3)To date, the Palm Pre is THE ONLY phone that can TRULY multitask (apologies to the Android fans). This has true medical app possibilities written all over it. Read a patient’s med list in one window, see their labs in a second window, and xray in yet another…….. just swipe between them, no need to close them…….. you get the idea.

For now, the iPhone is king. But the Palm Pre is young. Give it time. It will be worth the wait.