Three Healthcare Experts Offer Insights on Best Devices and Software

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine's Medical Editor Dr. Ed Zabrek recently appeared on House Calls, an on-demand audio program hosted by Dr. Bill Crounse, Healthcare Industry Director for Microsoft. Crounse interviewed Dr. Zabrek, Hemang Patel of Microsoft, and Robert Quinn from Epocrates. The interview occurred on August 30, 2006. We appreciate Bill Crounse and Microsoft's permission to print edited portions of this interview below. You can hear the entire uncut interview at: http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/providers/businessvalue/housecalls/audiocastoverview.mspx. Also check out http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/providers/default.mspx for further information on House Calls and other Microsoft healthcare initiatives and resources, including a series of articles by Dr. Crounse.

Dr. Bill Crounse: What's hot and what's not for today's highly mobile healthcare professionals? Nobody wants just a pager or a cell phone anymore. Today's clinicians are looking for devices that provide voice communication, e-mail, text messaging, Web access, information, point of care solutions, MP3 player, videos, and more. Thanks to a wide selection of popular devices running Windows Mobile 5.0, they can have it all. But deciding which device and what solutions are right for you can be a bit overwhelming.

Today on House Calls, we have some of the best experts on mobile devices in healthcare to talk to us about the coolest devices out there, to talk about mobility trends in the industry, and to discuss some of the most popular applications and solutions that are "must haves" for today's busy healthcare professionals. My guests:

• Dr. Edward Zabrek is Medical Editor for Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine, and a full-time practicing Ob-Gyn at Memorial City-Memorial Hermann Hospital Systems in Houston, Texas. He has an ambitious dream to "evolutionize" patient care with Windows Mobile devices.
• Hemang Patel is a Mobility Solutions Specialist in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Enterprise customer space here at Microsoft. He focuses on messaging and vertically related solutions involving the Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and Smartphones.
• Robert Quinn is Senior VP of Engineering and CTO at Epocrates. Bob brings to the Epocrates team nearly 20 years of experience as an engineer and software development manager. He received his Bachelors from DartmouthCollege, holds a PhD from the University of Colorado, and was a Research Fellow at Harvard University.