I am not inclined to buy gadgets and truth be known, I only stopped using my pager one week ago. But two weeks ago my phone broke and I had to buy a new one. In the past I have rescued whatever phone my children no longer deemed 'worthy' from that infamous drawer in the kitchen where stuff like that collects, then I take it to the phone company and I have them reactivate the old phone. This time there were no old phones left, two of my sons have the i-phones and love them, and so I went and looked at one in detail and wound up buying one.
SO, my point is,I got this phone and started playing with it. You gotta look into these things.
I can open "Care 360" the site of Quest Labs and see lab results for my patients.
I can open an "APP" that shows the IV doses for nearly all drugs available in IV form. Useful when I arrive at the hospital in the evening and hear, "the surgeon will take him to the OR in the morning, he is NPO after midnight, what do you want to do with his meds?"
I have an "APP" for Differential Diagnosis and one for ICD-9 codes.
I have an "APP" from the CDC with all of the immunization schedules sorted by age groups.
I can open "Epocrates" on the phone as well as my laptop.
I have a cute little "APP" called World Card, which allows me to photograph a persons business card and instantly convert it to the "contacts" file with about 90% accuracy, (meaning I have to look at it and touch up any entry where the 'clever' use of fancy type fonts has obfuscated the purpose of the card).
AND FINALLY, MY REAL POINT:
With an APP called, " RDP" I can open my server over the phone line and open Amazing Charts, from my cell phone, anywhere I have service. Yes the screen is tiny, I have to squint, and scroll across the screen to get to the point I want, you would never chart this way, BUT I will never have to go from the hospital ER over to the office to find out the list of meds, ever again!
Absolutely awesome.
