ScreenFlow Deserves every Award it gets its an Amazing App.
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I wish it were a little cheaper but considering how well it works it's worth every penny.
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I wish it were a little cheaper but considering how well it works it's worth every penny.
I can understand our game didn't won (Penguins Arena), but it's somewhat sad to see a big player like Aspyr winning when so much indies developers try to support the Mac plateform and would have make good use of this prizes.
How about this stat from the WSJ:
And that stat is 4 years old. The Cleveland Clinic (one of the top research hospitals in the US) recently gave every doctor who works there a PDA with Epocrates on it, to help prevent drug interaction problems. It is a huge market.
Yeah it looks great. I wish there was some more info though. I'm actually hanging for Netter's anatomical flash cards, epocrates, and hopefully a Harrison's manual of medicine. Instant buy on all fronts. I'm really excited to see where this technology will end up.did you see the medical app developed using the iPhone SDK at WWDC? absolutely insane! youre going to love the iPhone when it hits Oz
Magnification looks very nice. kind of like Aperture for medical images.
I guess cynically this could be somewhat an exercise in publicity (although not so for the more established awards). Although we might be surprised - since palm has been dying off and I'm sure companies have been keen to port to a renewed market. The demand is definitely there (as well as the cash) and medical apps can charge quite a premium. We'll know for sure when the App Store launches. I'm sure we'll see it's own category being quite healthy in the long run.ChrisRC said:
Chin up Mad FrogI can understand our game didn't won (Penguins Arena), but it's somewhat sad to see a big player like Aspyr winning when so much indies developers try to support the Mac plateform and would have make good use of this prizes.
. Your game looks ace (and you look to be quite decorated with awards already!). I'm downloading it now and will give it a go on the weekend. Thanks for letting us know about it.That's the funniest comment I've seen on here in years. I suspect you spend a little time on Digg with that wit.
Give me a break. This category is clearly a ploy to give kudos to an early (although possibly deserving) iPhone/iPod Touch developer. I didn't even see the iPhone runner up categories listed on the iLife page of ADA winners (maybe because only a handful of apps are even in development at this time?)...
'Most' doctors have tablet computers and PDAs? Any evidence for this? Would you also care to elaborate on how they use these devices in their daily practice? I have close family members in the medical field; I would be shocked to see them or any other physician pulling out an iPhone to look up my medical records, take notes on a patient, or access results from offsite labs ("Oh gee! Let me find out the results of your questionable skin lesion on my phone!"). Please exercise some discretion (and spell check) in your future posts.
I'm CFO of a hospital and we have just ordered 500 PDAs with another 2000 (at least) to come for recording patient vital signs data at the bedside. We also have tablets and mobile computers in heavy use.
You are completely wrong - it's a huge market.
Where's the stats that says said owners USE them in their practice? I've been to a few doctors in the past year at several practices, even done some IT consulting. All had a PDA/Smartphone but none of them used it for their practice other than the occasional email.
Where's the stats that says said owners USE them in their practice? I've been to a few doctors in the past year at several practices, even done some IT consulting. All had a PDA/Smartphone but none of them used it for their practice other than the occasional email.
Maybe, but if every Universities were buying Macs for their labs, even if none were actually using them, wouldn't that still be considered a huge market?
Where's the stats that says said owners USE them in their practice? I've been to a few doctors in the past year at several practices, even done some IT consulting. All had a PDA/Smartphone but none of them used it for their practice other than the occasional email.
I am an "older" physician, and many of my colleagues and I use PDAs just for ePocrates alone- the company that publishes the PDR used to charge exorbitantly for it (like most medical texts), now they can't GIVE it away. Software for writing/printing prescriptions is very common, and as medicine moves toward electronic medical records, small tablet devices (and hopefully the iPhone) will become as common as stethoscopes. "Trust me...."
How do you get over the fact that you aren't allowed mobile phones in hospitals? That's why doctors have pagers instead of phones - pagers are passive devices. Heck, it's so strict I've seen visitors forcibly evicted for attempting to use them - understandable when they (allegedly) cause life support equipment to malfunction.
PDAs I could possibly understand - although I've never actually seen one (and have the dubious honour of having spent rather a lot of time in hospital over the last few years). All the doctors I've seen have terminals on their desk and there's a mobile PC (a 386 no less!) on each ward that gets wheeled around for the nurses to use, when it works (which in my experience it rarely does).
The one device that has caught on in the last year is the dictaphone - they all have them now. At one time they'd be writing notes as fast as they could... now they record it all in voice and have their secretaries transcribe it. Saves the notes being full of doctor's handwriting I guess.
General practice is even worse. Our local GP was told last year to shut down their online prescription ordering service (basically a CGI script as far as I could tell) and move to the 'brand new' government paid for one.. which failed horribly and rather expensively (surprise!).. and now only accept handwritten in-person applications.. they've gone backwards. They have lots of PCs (again, never seen a PDA) but it's basically an overpriced appointments system.
I'm not sure at all how the iphone could fit into that framework... appointments tends to be done at a desk.. getting results maybe? Problem with that is results are still 90% paper (and film) so someone would have to scan it all in. Notes are all paper and will continue to be for some years at the current rate (it takes a while to type in 50 million patient records, especially when you factor in government incompetence)...
Anyone have any experience with this versus ImageJ? I think that Macnification can do most of what I need it to do, but it would be stellar to see some sort of ImageJ plugin support or something along these lines, or to be able to run ImageJ analysis inside Macnification.
Plus ImageJ is free (but ugly).
wow... prizes are incredible. congrats to the winners!
note to self: must find more useful things to do with my time...
Yeah Really! Apple really recognizes the developers with some GREAT stuff! WTG all!
Ominfocus lists Voice Recording!
Did anyone notice on the OmniFocus page that they list voice recording as an feature!
I hope this isn't an iPhone 3G only feature....
On second thought, iPhone has always had a mic... it's a phone duh... but this is still a feature not mentioned for iPhone 2.0 - though I see that there are apps for hacked iPhones already...
Did anyone notice on the OmniFocus page that they list voice recording as an feature!
I hope this isn't an iPhone 3G only feature....
On second thought, iPhone has always had a mic... it's a phone duh... but this is still a feature not mentioned for iPhone 2.0 - though I see that there are apps for hacked iPhones already...
I can understand our game didn't won (Penguins Arena), but it's somewhat sad to see a big player like Aspyr winning when so much indies developers try to support the Mac plateform and would have make good use of this prizes.
I played Penguins Arena a couple months ago and it's a great game!
Yep. OmniFocus for the iPhone looks great. Only question is how much are they going to charge for it? Because OmniFocus itself is $79 (which is a fairly steep price)
Guitar Hero 3? Sure, it's a fun game, but how about giving that prize to something that wasn't a ridiculously awful porting job? I don't think it's Aspyr's fault so much as the company who initially made it, but that thing had ridiculously high system requirements on the PC and even more so on the Mac. Sloppy friggin' coding, man. Sure, OpenXML is highly portable, but as a result, it's also a godawful resource pig. Give the prize to someone who actually wrote a lean, efficient game, not a grotesquely bloated, if fun one.
Mobile phones are allowed in hospitals (maybe not for use in specific areas), and pretty much all doctors have a mobile phone. What good's a pager if you can't call people back?
as stated above, a lot of physicians have bought PDAs (specifically palms) for http://www.epocrates.com/
That was the "killer app" for many. I don't know if the radiology application will necessarily see mass adoption.
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