Unbound Medicine's customized iPhone interface takes full advantage of the built-in Safari web browser to give health professionals quick answers over cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Users navigate intuitively by tapping on index terms or by entering searches into clinician-friendly forms. Cross-links and lists of related content instantly take a clinician from a disease management discussion to a drug monograph for the correct dose, possible interactions, and adverse effects of a recommended medication.
"Typically 70% of clinical questions go unanswered. Now, with pocket-sized internet devices we can now bring medical knowledge to the point of need, thereby improving patient care and reducing medical errors," said Bill Detmer, MD, president and CEO of Unbound Medicine. "By adding the iPhone to the long list of devices supported by the Unbound Platform we can help busy doctors and nurses stay abreast of the latest developments in their fields."
Since its inception in 2000, Unbound Medicine has helped more than 500,000 healthcare professionals find answers to patient care questions wherever they arise. The company's unique approach is to combine expertise in medical informatics with sophisticated software that optimizes search and display on the Web and the small screens of personal digital assistants (PDAs), smartphones and wireless devices. Any of Unbound Medicine's products formulated for PDA, Web, and wireless delivery can be accessed by iPhone. In addition to those listed above, these include Medicine Central, Nursing Central, Emergency Central, and the institutional gateway product, uCentral.
