Optometric Billing-Which Platform To Choose If you're Going Mobile

One of my favorite tech writers is Adrian Kingsley Hughes at ZDnet. Below is a post he wrote this week about iOS vs Android in terms of sales. Though I don't think that this is likely to be a long term trend, given the fact that there are a vast majority of Android handsets to each iPhone available, I do want to point out that as the computing world goes mobile you will begin to try and do the same for your practices. The most obvious place to begin looking to "mobilize" your office is through the use of smartphones and tablets to make the transition to EMR/EHR a smoother one. Here is the number one thing to keep in mind:

EVEN THOUGH ANDROID SEEMS LIKE IT IS GOING TO BE MORE POPULAR IT IS INHERANTLY LESS SECURE AS A RESULT OF THE FACT IT IS AN OPEN PLATFORM. DO YOU REALLY WANT TO RISK YOUR LISCENSE, YOUR PRACTICE AND VITAL PATIENT INFORMATION BECAUSE AN ANDROID DEVICE WAS CHEEPER OR MORE READILY AVAILABLE?! REMEMBER, HIPPA!

That being said, take a look at the ZDNet article and conclude for yourself. Remember, you can always call opticXpress for help going mobile. Our software runs on iPads and Android tablets!

"In the sales war between the iPhone and Android, latest figures from the NPD group suggest that while iPhone sales are on the up, while sales of Android device have slumped preciptously.

Between Q3 2011 and October/November sales of iPhones soared from 26% to a whopping 43%. During the same period sales of Android devices fell from a high of 60% to 47%.

Here’s a chart:

This chart clearly shows how the smartphone race is between iOS and Android. RIM has pretty much vanished into oblivion and none of the other players were worth adding to the chart.

Is the the iPhone 4S effect that we are seeing here, or is it indicative of a deeper problem and perhaps a slowing down of the Android machine? Hard to tell based om just a single data point. What will be interesting is seeing where this goes during the year.

Also according to NPD, two out of every three phones sold in the Oct/Nov period was a smartphone, while during Q3 11 this figure was only 59%. Basic phones only accounted for 15%, while messaging phones didn’t fare much better with 18% of sales.

The cellphone market is now very much the domain of the smartphone."