As it's nearly T-minus 5 hours until Jobs' keynote, the rumor mill is buzzing with a variety of predictions. Despite our excitement for today's announcements, here's a list of things we'd like to see arise as a *result* of WWDC:
1. iPad compatibility with EMR/EHR offerings. Perhaps EMR/EHR vendors haven't quite grasped the utility, applicability and ubiquity of iPads in healthcare. Sure you can VNC into your EMR/EHR with great products like iTeleport, but a "native" EMR/EHR "extension" is preferred
2. AppleScript integration with EMR/EHRs. Sort of personal pet-peeve of mine given my recent interest in AppleScripting, but nonetheless, incorporating this powerful, user-friendly scripting environment would be a boon to my daily workflow.
3. Further EMR/EHR development. Outside of MacPractice and ComChart, are any other EMR/EHR vendors actively or, more importantly, seriously developing for the Mac operating system? SpringCharts, PowerMed...are you listening? For that matter, anyone else listening?
4. Fix things that are "broken"...such as using MacSpeech Dictate with text-expanding applications ala TextExpander or Typeit4me. The character transpositions when running these applications, in parallel, is unacceptable.
All bias aside (okay, not really), the Mac operating system inherently offers a more robust and user-friendly environment for everyone from the novice to advanced user, so why aren't developers developing? Hopefully all of that changes today. Stay tuned!
