All that was new is new again
March 18th, 2010 — samirThe year 1996-2000 were fantastic for all things mobile. Almost. The Palm Pilot sold like hot cakes, the Wireless Access Protocol was going to make all of the Web available on the phone and there were all sorts of new browsers being put on the phone. There were operating systems being built for the phones too. Ebooks and ebook readers were beginning to emerge too. And there we were @ iScribe — putting prescription writing on mobile devices too and changing the way doctors worked… forever. 
Most of the promises were unfulfilled at the time and we had to wait for 10 years before the mobile devices, browsers and ebook readers became usable. All that is happening now.
All, that is, except for e-prescribing on mobile devices. My beloved iScribe is dead and not coming back. And doctors aren’t using their phones except to select the restaurant they’ll go to for dinner… and to make the occasional phone call. Will the new healthcare bill force doctors to use technology and reduce waste?Is the practice of medicine ever going to come to the 21st century, I wonder.