March 25, 2010 6:00 PM

At Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, physicians are using iPhones to access the hospital clinical information system. They accomplished this by developing an in-house iPhone application called VitalHub which gives physicians secure, remote access to patient records, test results, vital statistics, and medical literature from its internal data network.

The iPhone platform is gaining ground as more physicians adopt smartphones with decent sized screens (providing an advantage over the Blackberry devices that are most commonly used).

In an upcoming roundtable podcast, we will examine the use of mobile technologies to provide care and how these devices are being adopted and used by physicians.

“Our goal is to provide the cutting-edge best medicine, best teaching, and best research,” says Dr. Thomas Stewart, Chief of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “We need something that’s going to allow us to change rapidly. Five years from now, the medical world is going to be very different. With iPhone, we have a platform that allows us to adapt."

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Originally posted on Canadian EMR

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Posted by Sue Ansell at March 25, 2010 6:00 PM

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