Luckily, iTriage is now available on iPhone and Android and will soon be released for Blackberry.  Search the symptoms against the possible causes to ascertain what kind of medical facility you should attend. Do you need the Emergency Room or just a physician? Are your symptoms minor and possibly treatable by a pharmacist? Even if you’re away from home, iTriage can pinpoint your location and provide full directions to the nearest hospital, urgent care, pharmacist or physician using your phone’s GPS technology. It can even tell you what the waiting times are for a number of large hospitals.

iTriage is free to download and use and is certainly a useful application to keep close to hand. However, we would stress that if you think the situation is an emergency, it should be dealt with accordingly as quickly as possible.

Working in a similar way to other social media sites, we invite health professionals to register and create an online profile for themselves.  There are many powerful features to help you comprehensively report yourself, mapping software allows you to show your base and image handling means you can add pictures.  Add information about your career, you specialities, your qualifications and the hospitals you work out of and within moments you have an in depth marketing tool that can promote you in a whole new way.  You will also find our blog area bringing you up to the moment news of developments, both technological and medical, that could affect you directly.

In the same way as general social networking sites, you can then get on with building your personal network.  Make contacts with others in your area, offer your services to someone seeking knowledge, the possibilities are endless but the specific nature of the site means you will be learning and developing in a professional capacity as well as socializing  – bonus. Just when you thought that was the end of it, Dr Connected offers you another layer and pretty soon you will struggle to remember how you existed without us!  Currently, although we can only offer the service in the US and Canada, Dr Connected is also a powerful online application to manage your office needs.  Think marketing, think PR, think communications then yes, you guessed it – you need to think Dr Connected.  Please let us know if you are waiting for this application in your country. We are expanding all the time and currently testing and customizing, but if you drop us a line we can update you further.

It’s always good to hear great news, especially when it’s about one of Prestance, Inc’s clients. Dr Iman Bar was honored Physician of Excellence 2009 by the Orange County Medical Association in the OrangeCoast Magazine. From the award: “The physicians of Excellence program was developed by the Orange County Medical Association (OCMA), the largest physician membership organization in the county. (…) This annual program aims to honor the regions many outstanding physicians.”