Doctors can now immediately tap the wisdom of remote experts with just the click of a button, thanks to new mobile technology from Cambridge, MA-based Sermo. The company, which operates the largest online network of doctors in the U.S., today unveiled its Sermo mobile application for Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The app includes iConsult, a feature where doctors can snap a picture of a physical finding, X-ray, or laboratory result, and shoot it off to other doctors in the Sermo network, who can give their advice in real-time.
Author: Erin Kutz
Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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