EMR and EHR Goes Mobile

I know. I’m a little late to the party. Ironically I created the first mobile version of EMR and EHR about 3+ years ago, but the options that were available weren’t very good and so I abandoned it and went back to the general theme. Plus, phone sizes got so big that I’ve always felt like most websites could be viewed on a modern smartphone without issue.

The people at Google (who are much smarter than me) have chosen otherwise and have started penalizing websites (in their search ranking) that aren’t mobile optimized. I still don’t think it’s a huge deal for my readers since only 10-15% of them read it on mobile devices and a big portion of that is on an iPad or tablet which is large enough to enjoy the normal website. Plus, an even larger portion of the EMR and EHR readership reads it in their email and that’s optimized for mobile already.

Of course, now that you’ve heard my excuses for why it took so long to create a beautiful mobile version of EMR and EHR, I’m happy to say that I’ve finally bit the bullet and rolled out a nice mobile theme for EMR and EHR. In fact, if you’re reading this post on your mobile device, then you’re experiencing the mobile optimized goodness already.

I’m still working on a few more changes to the mobile version of EMR and EHR, but I think you’ll enjoy reading our great content on your mobile device much better now. Let us know what you think in the comments. We’re happy to hear any problems, suggestions, and any praise (who doesn’t like a little ego stroke?) you have about the new mobile version of the site.

Above all else, thanks so much for reading and all your support!

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

2 Comments

  • Is your mobile app available on both iOS and Android? If so I will be checking it out very soon. Good idea….I am using my tablet much more these days (Nexus 7)

  • Hi Gary,
    Glad you’re excited by it. A few notes. It’s not actually a mobile app. It’s a mobile optimized website. So, if you load the website on your mobile device, then it will recognize it and load a theme that’s made for small screens. Most tablets have a big enough screen to use the full site, but some will load the mobile optimized screen.

    I’ve debated doing a full app and just haven’t had the time to do it. I’d still like to do it eventually. For now, at least this mobile version will look nice on your devices. Plus, you can add it to your home screen and it will work similar to an app.

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