[mystiqx]

hey i just checked and skyscape supports iphone!!!!!!!!!!
or wait should I have said it the other way around
iphone supports the skyscape software (skyscape has all the nursing clinical software )

[mysterious_one]

I saw that, too, but than it says, quote:
" iPhone:
this is an electronic fulfillment only".
I don't know what that means , but it doesn't say that on the other platforms. So I would call them first to make sure.

[dancingdoula]

I love Macs but my husband is a bonafide Mac Addict. He's trying to convince me to get an iphone and run the skyscape package on it. It's not that I don't want an iphone, who wouldn't, but along with the first generation issue I'm wondering if we will even be allowed to use iphones on the acute care floor. Since most hospitals probably don't have wireless throughout the building I would have to use Apple's dial up connection through the cell phone function to access the drug guide etc. online. I know it's mostly just a myth that cell phones interfere with tele monitors and such but many hospitals still have a policy of no cell phones allowed on the floor. I know I can just turn the ringer off and hope no one notices my PDA is actually a phone but how long will I be able to keep up the mascarade...??? Anyone tried yet?

[MB37]

I know they make PDA's that aren't phones, but don't many of them also function as cells? Also, I've only seen one iPhone in real life so far, but its owner told me that there are many functions you can access without being online. He described a relative who's an airline pilot and can access many functions while in the air with the phone in "airplane mode" (hopefully not when he should be FLYING the plane, but I'm just relaying a story I heard...).

[dancingdoula]

We have a family member who does tech support for the iphone. Basically he says if it's in "airplane mode" you can only access free wireless and not the Edge network which is essentially the iphone's own wireless network that requires you to use the cell phone. I just don't think I would be able to access skyscape without using the Edge network on the floor. Just wondering if anyone has tried.