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Amazing Charts goes mobile, check out our latest press release announcing the new iPhone app! http://bit.ly/eC63ig

Posted By: Josephine Hermanson

Yes, that is great. We have discussed it here. It actually is one reason I decided to get an iPhone (ATT coverage is pretty good in Chicagoland). (I will get it once I have settled everything with my new iPhone.)

I don't mean to put you on the spot but...

What about an android app?

Now, what about a time frame for Version 6?

I too would like to see an android app. Until then - logmein ignition for android will do for now. And, about that version 6.....

I agree we need Android. The other day I was at a restaurant and my patient was at X-ray waiting for hand x-rays. The fax I had sent did not go through.

So, there is a new policy where they cannot take verbal orders followed up by a paper req the next day. So, I asked the guy, "What about this patient and father who travelled 45 miles for this x-ray?" Sorry, he said.

So, somehow, I logged into my computer using my Droid X and painstakingly got into AC and printed a req and faxed it from the PC.

I am kind of ignorant about this subject, still having a dumb phone, but how is an app better than logmein. I hope to get an iphone next week if there is not a life-threatening stampede at our local Verizon store.

I haven't seen the latest version, but based what I have seen previously, it is a different UI (user interface) that fits the scale of an iPhone, and has touch controls that are much more useable that (as in LMI or RDP) getting your 17-20" computer screen presented on a 3.5-4" handheld screen that wasn't built for touch.

You might want to wander through the Verizon store before-hand and try out the latest from Motorola or HTC, to see how you get along with touch interfaces - most find them quite pleasant once you get the hang of it.

As Bert will point out, and I agree, if you go iPhone, you won't have the joy of Swype - but the iPhone keyboard is decent, just not as good.

It is only for wireless networks, though? We have downloaded it onto an iphone, but cannot start the process.

who has actually downloaded the iphone app and used it? how would you rate in it?, what are the pros and cons...

thanks for your feedback

i downloaded the app but i have no idea how to get it set up! no help option and no setup directions! why make things so hard to get going- its about time AC had some kind of instructions / how-to's

The page for the iphone app has instructions - don't know if it will help - http://amazingcharts.com/help/iphone/

The AC iPhone app
Review the instructions that Steven refers to. After downloading the app to your iPhone, it appears that the AC iPhone app must be setup & sync'ed with the AC database using your office wireless network. This downloads your patient data onto the iPhone. Then when you are outside the office, you can look up patient encounters, problem lists and meds, and write messages. However, in order to add these messages to the AC database, you must each time re-sync the iPhone with your main computer using your office WiFi network.
PROs: Faster and easier access to patient data than an internet connection, especially when the iPhone isn't in a WiFi area
CONs: Can only write messages, which must later be sync'ed when you return to your office, only available for iPhone at present

LogMeIn Ignition
In comparison, LogMeIn Ignition is a real-time connection to your office network, though an internet-connected computer in your office. Since you are actually controlling a computer in your office, any messages, prescription refills, etc, are recorded in the AC database as you are doing it. There is no need to sync.
PROs: Access any function of AC, including messaging, eRx, creating addendums, etc in real time; for both iPhone & Android smartphones (as well as Mac & Windows computers)
CONs: Slower, especially when not in a WiFi zone, manual dexterity required to use touch screen "mouse", hard to display office computer's desktop on small smartphone screen

I hope you will be successful. Apparently, Verizon sold out online their entire reserve of a million iPhone4s in the first two hours (3-5am).

The major problem in my view is that if you have not synched it that day, the patient notes are not current. Many of our after hours calls are about issues that are very recent.

I agree with David. You have to sync the app every night before leaving the office. Otherwise, it won't help with the pharmacy call on your partner's patient about the prescription he wrote today.