ONC Meaningful Use

Analysis: 205 hospital-branded apps for patients

By Brian Dolan 05:15 am September 19, 2013

It's been about four years since healthcare providers began to seriously consider mobile applications as a new channel for communicating with their patients. In that time hospitals have experimented with many app-enabled patient engagement pilots, and some -- mostly quietly -- launched patient-facing apps. Over the course of the past few months MobiHealthNews has been scouring the Apple and...

Survey: 83 percent of doctors would use mobile EHR apps but don't have access

By Brian Dolan 03:55 am June 4, 2013

The survey found drchrono to be the highest rated EHR among those docs surveyed about mobile EHR apps. Black Book Rankings, which publishes customer satisfaction survey results for a wide range of industries, shared the results of national surveys of EHR vendors, hospital CIOs, and physicians in the US that found a very strong demand for mobile apps for EHRs. The survey is a follow-up to last...