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Mobile Healthcare Blog | IQMax Certifies the palmOne Treo 650 Smartphone for its Suite of Mobile Healthcare Solutions

April 25th, 2005 | | Posted in Certified Devices, General News |

Healthcare professionals have long shown their preference for PalmOne handheld and smartphone solutions and the popularity of their newest smartphone the Treo™ 650 smartphone, continues to drive that demand. Over 50% of Physicians use a PDA and most have a mobile phone. The Treo 650 smartphone combines these two devices in a compact, feature-rich, yet simple-to-use unit.

IQMax, Inc. is a pioneer in PDA solution development that function on both Palm ® operating system based devices and Microsoft ® Pocket PC PDAs. Released in 2001, IQMax’s IQSpeak ® solution was the first dictation solution designed for the healthcare market to function on a Palm OS based PDA.

Form Meets Function

Healthcare providers are arguably the most demanding group of PDA users. Simplicity of use, extended battery life, compact size, reliability and connectivity are just a few of the design elements required in a PDA. Add the functionality of a mobile phone and few manufacturers have come close to meeting the market need until the introduction of the Treo 650 smartphone.

“IQMax technology coupled with the Treo 650 smartphone is a significant step in increasing adoption of fully-integrated mobile solutions by physicians.” says Gail Moody—Byrd, director of business and healthcare marketing at palmOne. “Capturing results at the time of intervention, synchronizing encounter data to the host systems and receiving updated patient census and schedule data along with clinical results, all of which the IQMax and Treo 650 solutions deliver, demonstrate the power of technology to enhance the workflow requirements of healthcare professionals and allow them to gain more quality time with their patients.”

IQMax solutions place significant performance standards on PDAs including voice recording, data communications, and high performance expanded memory along with excellent reliability.

“Reliable, robust voice recording and file synchronization are two of our key benchmarks when testing PDA devices.” says Chris Updegraft, VP, Chief Architect for IQMax. If the PDA is going to fail under stress conditions, it will typically show up quickly on our test bed during simulated voice recording.” Updegraft further commented “The Treo 650 has met our strenuous testing requirements. Additionally, the wide area wireless (WAN) communications support adds an additional dimension that will allow physicians to synchronize anywhere, anytime when the high-speed WAN data networks are provided by the wireless carriers.”

Wireless carriers currently supporting the Treo 650 smartphone include Sprint ® and Cingular ®. Check with your wireless carrier or PalmOne, Inc. for current availability.