Epocrates have just sent me an email:

We’re excited to let you know that Epocrates, Inc. was one of only five
companies, including Salesforce.com, AOL, EA and Sega, to be highlighted by
Steve Jobs during the iPhone Software Roadmap media briefing. Epocrates has
already begun working directly with Apple to create a downloadable version of
its clinical products that can be downloaded directly to the iPhone or iPod
Touch.

In the meantime, you can view epocrates on the iPhone Safari browser by pointing it at m.epocrates.com.

View the entire Apple SDK Event: http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/mar/rtp20e92/m_08770365506i_350_ref.mov

And we’re not just talking about urologists…

Don’t worry about that guy about to operate on your gallbladder. He trained on the Wii.

According to a very small, very preliminary study, playing certain video games on the Nintendo Wii helps surgical residents to hone their fine motor skills and improve their performance on a serious surgery simulator.

OK, so a simple video game helps these docs with a slightly more complicated one. But bear with us here because the more sophisticated simulator is the sort of thing that’s used right now to help doctors do a better job on keyhole surgery using tiny instruments outfitted with video cameras.

Improvements in simulator performance didn’t come from just any Wii (see image), or any game. Marble Mania is good, for example. Tennis (astonishingly fun to play on the Wii, which uses a motion-sensitive wireless control) isn’t so helpful. “The key is to have subtle hand movements,” Kanav Kahol one of the authors of the study, told the Health Blog. “You can’t hit a tennis swing and expect to become a better surgeon. You need fine motor control.”

Kahol, a biomedical informatics expert affiliated with Arizona State and a hospital chain called Banner Health, worked with Marshall Smith, a Banner surgeon, to see if playing the Wii (Wii-ing?) improved residents’ scores on a standard simulator for minimally invasive, or laparoscopic, surgery.

From the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.

Motion computing have annouced the release of the first product in their Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) category of Tablet PCs.

Flash Presentation of the Motion C5

Specifications:

Genuine Windows® Vista™ Business or Genuine Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition.

Mobile Intel® Core Solo Processor U1400 (1.20GHZ) and integrated high-speed wireless connectivity.

First mobile clinical assistant that integrates technology from Intel® Health.

Identify patients, medications and assets with Radio Frequency (RFID) technology.

Use the optional integrated barcode reader to manage medicines or costly supplies.

The convenient integrated camera allows you to easily take pictures and capture video for patient education and required documentation.

Highly sealed design is wipeable for quick cleaning and disinfecting.

The durable C5 is designed to handle the rigorous demands of the healthcare environment.

Integrated Bluetooth® provides wireless connectivity to peripherals.

The C5 helps you confidently enforce the 5 rights of medication administration: right drug, right patient, right dosage, right route and right time.

Healthcare-oriented security features. Integrated Fingerprint Reader prevents unauthorized access.

Embedded Trusted Platform Module (TPM) protects data by enabling hardware-based encryption.

View Anywhere® technology offers optimum viewing in any lighting, indoors or outdoors.

The Motion C5 is supported by a wide range of Accessories, including the C5 Docking Station with battery charging bay, power and storage solutions.

Fosfor Gadgets has a cool collection of the wierdest USB devices ever. Check them out.