Nurses Use iTouch and iPhones to Communicate and Stay Connected

Sarasota Memorial plans to get the new iPhones in late November, and hopes to deploy them to its nurses by December.

Sarasota Memorial is not the only hospital that is making the switch from overhead pages to iPhones and iTouches.

University of North Carolina Hospitals has switched from pagers to iPhones to help with communication between interpreters at the hospital. Using the iPhones allow interpreters to have access to the Internet, and if a question arises, the entire group can respond via text message, and not be inundated with phone calls.

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is also using iPhones for communication between its staff members and MGH even has its own application called "The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine." This application provides key clinical information about common problems in all areas of internal medicine.