Windows Phone Thoughts: The Doctor is In: House Call Medicine Growing

This article is about a doctor that's going back to the tradition of doing house calls, and a Pocket PC is part of the gear for doing his job. Do you have a doctor that uses a Pocket PC? Or are you a doctor using a Pocket PC? Tell us!

"Having a physician visit the patient saves the patient having to sit in a waiting room filled with perhaps-contagious patients. And when Weber has to take longer with an earlier patient, the waiting patient is more comfortable and understanding. "From the patient's standpoint there's a real loss of productivity for people with paying jobs if they take off a day of work to do some trivial test," Buchanan said. "I don't think that lost productivity is well measured."

During the visit to the Seratt home, Susan Weber scheduled the next appointment on a Pocket PC, took calls from other patients and fetched a portable scale from the Honda for her husband. The expense, cumbersome nature and limited availability of medical technology are part of what drove physicians to concentrate on office practices in the 20th Century, Buchanan said. Likewise, it's the affordability and availability of highly mobile medical technology that is making house-call medicine easier today."