Vibrant physician community and educational content now available on iPhone®

QuantiaMD launches free application on the iPhone App Store

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantia Communications announced today that its rich media, interactive physician community is now available for free on the iPhone App Store, as a complement to its existing presence on the web, Blackberry® smartphones and Windows Mobile devices. As physicians increasingly use smartphones in their practice, the availability of QuantiaMD’s world-class content and community on the iPhone and iPod® touch could significantly improve physician education and the quality and safety of patient care.

“QuantiaMD’s availability on the iPhone means that I will be able to treat my patients more effectively”

“QuantiaMD on the iPhone is an amazing application that provides my doctors access to our educational programs wherever they are,” said Michael Wagner, MD FACP, Chief of General Internal Medicine at Tufts Medical Center.

“QuantiaMD’s availability on the iPhone means that I will be able to treat my patients more effectively,” said Tanveer Aslam, MD, a practitioner of internal medicine in Dyersburg, Tennessee. “I have access to so much critical information about particular diseases and case studies, and happily, I’m now liberated from my desk. The quality of the presentations on the iPhone are so crisp that it’s almost as though my colleagues are there with me – whether I’m in a treatment room, out of the office or traveling.”

The new QuantiaMD application was specifically designed to take advantage of the unique functionality of the iPhone and the iPod touch. Physicians can easily launch interactive presentations and clinical updates, respond to surveys, participate in case studies, complete CME activities, quickly post and review comments and ratings, and even refer content to peers. Quantia developed the native application, with its adept handling of rich media and interactive content, to give physicians a valuable, educational and entertaining mobile experience.

The medical community is quickly discovering the value of mobile technology in practice. More than half of healthcare professionals own a PDA or smartphone^1; that number is expected to increase to more than 70 percent by 2011^2. QuantiaMD benefits these time-starved physicians by giving them access to proprietary world-class content and education, provided by key opinion leaders in their fields.

Features available at QuantiaMD include the Expert Practice Series, which provides concise, practical and interactive content from recognized experts on topics of great clinical importance; challenging interactive cases, including a popular Monthly Case Contest; the opportunity for questions and consults with peer doctors; access to content that qualifies physicians for Continuing Medical Education credits; and even the ability to view full length grand rounds at member hospitals. All of these features are available for free in QuantiaMD’s new application.

QuantiaMD is free to validated health care practitioners and is available for the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices, and online. The iPhone application can be accessed from http://quantiamd.com/home/iphone or downloaded on the App Store.

About QuantiaMD

QuantiaMD is an online clinician community using breakthrough mobile and web technology to improve the quality and safety of healthcare by facilitating clinicians’ participation in world-class education, interactive case studies, field research, and patient discussions. http://quantiamd.com

^1:source: Manhattan Research, US Physician Market Trends, July 2008.

^2:source: The Diffusion Group, Defining the Black Bag for the 21st Century, October 2007.

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