Your doctor probably loves his or her iPhone for reading news on the go as much as you do. A massive survey of U.S. doctors found that while Android use is growing in the general population, physicians prefer iPhones.
Bulletin Healthcare found that iPhone mobile consumption of its subscription-based medical news climbed 45% between June 2010 and February 2011. The growth spurt was found in its 550,000 healthcare providers.
Of the 400,000 doctors who read the news via iPhone — that’s roughly half of the practicing physicians in the U.S. — 40% are emergency room physicians.
“Despite Apple’s longer tenure in the marketplace, we were surprised by the wide margin between Apple devices and others,” said Bill Mulderry, president of Bulletin Healthcare. “Combined, the iPhone and iPad grabbed more than 90% share of use in February, while Android saw only 6% use, and other platforms like RIM and Palm barely registered.”
Some platform changes are already in the works: iPhone use fell to 79%, from 86% last June, while iPad share nearly doubled to 14% in February, up from 8% in June, they reported.
Via Pharmalive, Bulletin Heathcare
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8 responses to “Survey says: doctors love iPhones, too”
>> Of the 400,000 doctors who read the news via iPhone — that’s roughly half of the practicing physicians in the U.S. — 40% are emergency room physicians. <<
Interesting! So at least 20% of the doctors in the U.S. work in the E.R. I bet that’s news to all the people sitting in the E.R. waiting room.
As a practicing family physician, I can vouch for the heavy use both personally, and among my colleagues. Keep up the good work, Apple.
Actually, 40% of the 400,000 docs equals about 160,000 docs, and remember that they estimated that 400k was about 1/2, so that would mean that of approx 800,000 docs in the US, 160k or 5% are ED physicians.
40% of doctors are NOT EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIANS. This is how myths get started. There are only about 20,000 emergency medicine physicians total in the US. I would hope that I know this — I’m one myself.
The author did not look at the stats correctly, and this article is not correct. Of the TOTAL number of emergency room physicians, 40% of them USE MOBILE DEVICES — the highest PERCENTAGE when compared to other specialists.
There is a national shortage of ER docs, coupled with a large segment of the population not having health insurance, it means long wait times.