tomorrow is already here. it arrived yesterday prepaid

The info coming my way via mobilehealthnews and the new groups I've joined on LinkedIn combined with the current state I see at at my organization (fyi: we are in the statistical 2% of organizations with full EMR in play) convinces me that the changes and technologies are already ahead of what healthcare can absorb. I decided to make up a new phrase (well, at least I'm going to pretend it is new and not google it to find out I'm just playing with yesterday's newspaper). Here it is: tomorrow is already here. it arrived yesterday prepaid

This is a update and link to post from mobilehealthnews by Brian Dolan.

"Does wireless health need a medical app store?
by Brian Dolan

A recent Brookings Institute report that we pointed to last week has drummed up a lot of response from the political commentary crowd: Joe Rothstein, editor of EIN News, penned an editorial in U.S. Politics Today this week that picked up where Brookings Institute's Darrell West left off:

“Physicians and patients are going to have to learn how to migrate into the new medical world. That may not be as difficult as it seems with a generation or so now having grown up with Nintendo and Game Boy as their constant companions,” Rothstein wrote. “And who now doesn't have a cell phone, or a smart phone, or an ipod? In the near time horizon it's likely we will all be customers at the medical app store, customizing our own devices.”

Continued here