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What if the iPhone is a secret ploy to grab stimulus money?

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Chadwick, Your commentary is not all that far-fetched. The wireless industry association group CTIA, The West Wireless Health Institute and the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance have been advising the federal government to spend some of the health-related stimulus money on wireless health services. Many of these technologies have demonstrated better care and cost savings over implementing electronic health records (the current focus of health-related government spending). Of course, that probably has little to do with the iPhone, but your point that getting patients' health information onto a mobile platform would lead to anywhere care is spot on -- all this talk of "portable data" thanks to EHRs is far from the idea of anywhere care were this data mobile-enabled, too. Also, you referenced an idea you had for a medical chart running on the iPhone -- not sure if you were referring to the iChart, which has been available for a couple months. A few analysts have been very taken by the application. Best, Brian Dolan Editor, www.mobihealthnews.com

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