Stanford's anesthesia program is pretty cool because we have a few faculty members who are interested in technology and anesthesia. They've developed an iPhone app with all the critical phone numbers, call schedules, paging abilities, and even papers. We have a website, "Ether," which allows instant messaging (as well as paging), stores syllabi, streams podcasts and videos, and links to key university websites. It's all incredibly useful. One thing I've learned about medicine is that it is slow to adapt new technologies. There are lots of valid concerns (what if an iPhone with patient data is stolen?) as well as culture issues (if it isn't broken, why fix it?). As a result, a lot of things trouble me, like reliance on paper records, paging systems, calling an operator to get phone numbers. But luckily, the program here is shoring up these inefficiencies by creating practical websites and applications for everyday use.
Image of iPhone shown under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License, from Wikipedia.
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