“Doctors love their iPads — even more than you might think,” Robert McMillan reports for Wired.
“Over in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a group of more than 60 doctors have revamped their mobile phones and iPads for use in emergency departments across the region with a little help from a familiar application: the popular Box.net file-sharing services,” McMillan reports. “Using Box, they’ve built a new system that lets them share procedures, journal articles and — perhaps most importantly — conversations.”
McMillan reports, “Last year, a startup called Doximity launched a kind of social network for doctors — letting them share information, ask each other questions, and even provide referrals. It now has more than 100,000 doctors.”
Much more in the full article here.