Next time you visit a doctor's office, don't be surprised if she accesses prescription data on her BlackBerry, but don't assume the same technology will be available at your hospital.

A group of Singing River Health System cardiologists have discovered the iconic iPhone can be used to gain life-saving minutes in treating heart attack victims. Dr. Hugo Quintana explained that he can view an electrocardiogram taken in an ambulance or the emergency department on his iPhone.

Long before the catastrophic 7.0-magnitide earthquake devastated Haiti last month, amputees living in the Caribbean nation faced a grim and uncertain future with many people looking at them as no more than an economic burden. And now, because of the nature of the injuries sustained by thousands of people in the quake, the country is dealing with a whole new “generation of amputees,” according to one Haitian doctor.

According to one medical software vendor, physicians are already warming up to Apple's coming tablet, the iPad, with 22% percent of clinicians in a survey saying they plan to purchase the device within a year.

The legendary Apple CEO Steve Jobs launched the much-awaited consumer electronics item 'iPad' in San Francisco, on Wednesday. Powered by Apple’s 'own' processor code-named A4 running at 1 GHz, a brilliant 9.7" LED display (Apple calls it IPS technology) with 16 to 64 GB of ‘flash’ memory, 10 hours of battery, WiFi (802.11n), Bluetooth (2.1), GPS and accelerometer, the ½' thin Apple iPad weighs a mere 1.5 pounds.