Patients an iPad away from doctors

GE Healthcare has released an Apple iPad application called Centricity Advance - Mobile, designed for primary care physicians in small practices, reports Property Magazine.

With Centricity Advance - Mobile, clinicians using GE Healthcare's Centricity Advance, a complete Web-based EMR and practice management system, won't be locked up to their desktops. As Centricity Advance customers, they can walk with their iPadwherever they like while continuing to interact with the patient and the patient record.

New prescriptions can be ordered, digitally signed and routed directly to a pharmacy. Lab results and upcoming appointments can be displayed, and users can use secure messaging or search Google within the patient record from an embedded browser, writes Med Gadgets.

Although the app can be downloaded for free, customers who already have a licence for the complete EMR can only use it.

Dr Medhavi Jogi, Houston Endocrinologist, says: “Now I can use my iPad exactly as I'd use a notepad and I don't miss a single point of communication with the patient”, says Mobi Health News.

“Better still, it eliminates the perceived barrier that some patients feel when I'm sitting at a computer entering data. It's a much more natural form of interaction.”