“Dan Diamond is a family practitioner who works at the Doctors Clinic in Silverdale, Wash., not far from Seattle. If he forgets his stethoscope when heading to work, he won’t go back home for it, since he can borrow another at the practice. Not so Dr. Diamond’s iPhone. ‘If I leave my iPhone at home, I will turn around and go back for it,’ he says. ‘It’s that important,'” Arik Hesseldahl reports for BusinessWeek.
“Apple’s iPhone has become a critical tool for saving time and improving the quality of the care Diamond provides, particularly when he’s with patients, he says. Of 22 applications Diamond has installed on his iPhone, 10 are health related. The most important, he says, is Epocrates Essentials, which lets him quickly check for drug interactions, look up disease symptoms, and find out what lab tests he might need to order. ‘I don’t have everything I need to know memorized,’ Diamond says. ‘This makes me look like I do,'” Hesseldahl reports.
“Epocrates Essentials is one of at least 278 downloadable tools in the ‘medical’ section of Apple’s iTunes App Store, a compendium of more than 15,000 games, tools, and other applications available for use on the iPhone,” Hesseldahl reports.
MacDailyNews Note: Close, Arik. Currently, Apple’s groundbreaking App Store has more than 25,000 applications.
Hesseldahl continues, “My hunch is that there are quite a few other doctors and medical professionals like Diamond among the 14 million iPhone users out there.”
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