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Article: Smart Phones Finding Voice in Health Care: Though adoption still is low, new health care applications are evolving for the converged devices.
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Dan Diamond, M.D., began using a smart phone about a year ago. The family physician, who practices at The Doctors Clinic in Silverdale, Wash., bought the mobile hardware to replace two devices-a PDA and a cell phone-he had been using during clinical care.
"It's awesome to carry only one device," says Diamond, also a clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. "When I was using a cell phone and PDA, I sometimes wouldn't have both devices with me, so I either couldn't make calls or get the information I needed."
Diamond now uses a Treo 600, from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm Inc., to call physicians and nurses, ...