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The New 3G iPhone, Doctors, The App Store, and MedicineSaturday, June 21, 2008 Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASN I've taken a long break from writing about the iPhone, and you might be sick of hearing about it. But be prepared — in less than a month, things are about to get very interesting.
Why? Not only will the new faster & cheaper 3G iPhone be released, but more importantly, the iPhone will now be open to third party software — that is, programs created by developers other than Apple. And why is this important? In the words of David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times, this means there will now be three major operating systems: the Mac, Windows, and the iPhone. (My apologies to Linux.)
This is only a small exaggeration. The iPhone has huge potential as a mobile computing platform, especially for physicians.
Sure, other mobile platforms exist — the Treo, Windows Mobile devices, tablet computers — but none have the graphics capability, the memory, the computing power, the form factor, and the ease of use of the iPhone.
What follows is the result of a brief brainstorming session about potential applications of the iPhone for doctors. Some have already been announced for the iPhone, are available on other platforms, or are currently in development. Let's see how many of these applications are eventually released and sold in the App store. My guess? All of them.
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