iPhone News Updated

Elsevier Launches New Procedures Consult App for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch

Optimized for quick, on-demand resource - including instructional videos - for medical professionals

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that its new Procedures Consult App for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch is now available on the App Store. The app allows for procedure videos, illustrations and text to be stored on a user’s iOS device with customized user interfaces. Doctors can now work more confidently with whenever, wherever access to the critical and reliable content of Procedures Consult, including at the bedside.

The Procedures Consult App delivers a single resource of high quality videos for all procedures required by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), and conforms to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). It enables physicians, residents and medical students to more confidently perform these procedures, such as a subclavian line insertion or lumbar puncture, improving patient safety and helping to achieve the best patient outcomes.

“The Procedures Consults App is unmatched in its breadth of coverage and the quality of the videos it delivers, providing incredible value to physicians at the point of care,” said Randy Charles, Managing Director, Global Clinical Reference, Elsevier.

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iPhone 5 Specs Leak: Larger Display, Better Camera and “4G”

Apple is set to hold an iPhone event on Tuesday October 4th, but this weekend Cincinnati Bell, a small regional carrier in Ohio, let slip some interesting information about the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4S.

These images come via TUAW, and show placeholders for the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4S. These screenshots do not show images of either device, but offer a look at the possible specs for Apple’s new iPhone.

Before you get too excited, these could just be placeholders put up by an expecting carrier — but even that is a telling sign. Just yesterday, we saw the Sprint iPhone 5 show up in Radio Shack’s inventory system.

You see, these screenshots appeared on the pre-paid pages of Cincinnati Bell. This is the first time we have heard about this carrier getting the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S.

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