Samsung Epic 4G now available on Sprint

The Samsung Epic 4G launched today on Sprint and it demonstrated one of the best first-day sales for any Sprint device. The Samsung Epic™ 4G is the only Galaxy S™ smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and front-facing camera. The Epic 4G runs Google Android and TouchWiz.

If you want a 4G smartphone, you now have two choices: you can get the HTC Evo 4G, or the Sprint Epic 4G. If you want a hardware QWERTY keyboard, then the Epic 4G is your choice.

Allscripts Remote (access your EHR using a smartphone)

The other day, I got into a conversation regarding the use of smartphones to access electronic health records (EHRs). We had been talking about Epic, eClinicalWorks, Practice Fusion, NextGen, GE Centricity, AthenaHealth, and a few other major EHR solutions. Then the conversation shifted to Allscripts Remote. Are you familiar with this solution? Here's a snippet from the Allscripts website:

Allscripts Remote™ enables providers to remotely control their Allscripts Enterprise EHR or Allscripts Professional EHR from any location. In a matter of seconds, providers can access the power of their practice’s EHR through their Apple® iPhone™, iPod Touch®, BlackBerry®, or Windows Mobile device.

With Allscripts Remote, difficult medical decisions that need to be made while out of the office, at the hospital, on call or on personal time can be made more effectively – thus helping providers take control of their time. And with Allscripts Remote, these decisions and actions are recorded in the Allscripts EHR for an immediate, complete and accurate patient record.

Compatible with Enterprise EHR v11 and Professional EHR v. 8.1 and higher, Remote is offered at no cost to physicians for a free thirty day trial.

You can learn more about Allscripts Remote by visiting the corporate website here. I wonder when they will release a native app for smartphones running Android.

Here's some more information about Allscripts Remote:

Epic releases iPhone app called Haiku (Electronic Health Record)

According to this story on Healthcare IT News:

Electronic health record vendor Epic has just released Haiku, an iPhone application that provides authorized users with secure access to schedules, patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes.

The app is a free download on iTunes, but the user must belong to an organization that licenses Haiku and is currently on Epic's Summer 2009, according the the product description on iTunes.

What other Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor has an iPhone app?

• Allscripts has one. 
• NextGen will be releasing an EHR Mobile app for the iPhone. 
• eClinicalWorks will be coming out with eClinicalMobile 2.0, an iPhone app. 

I'm sure we'll see other EHR/EMR vendors come out with iPhone apps in 2010. Where are the Android apps?