I'm a highly technical person, and I see the value in iOS versus an Android device, at least as they're generally available from carriers.
I've been through 4 or 5 Android phones now, provided by my employers. The first was an early 1.6 device, but the others have run Android 2.x builds. The lack of consistency just in the UI is stunning, not necessarily beacuse of Android, but all the Motorola/Verizon/HTC shit on top of it.
It's not that I can't figure out what versions run which apps, or what features changed between Android releases, it's that I really just shouldn't have to. I've got better stuff to blow mental energy on.
ROMs, extensive customization, etc., aren't an option - there was a time that I might've been interested in dicking around with alternative ROMs and so on, but that's long since passed. With other actual work to do, the phone becomes just a tool and I expect the interface to be polished and consistent. Apple seems to get that.
Depends on your interpretation of "cloud" and HIPAA compliance, I think. Keeping HIPAA or privacy act stuff in plaintext on some general-purpose cloud service probably isn't good, but there are a number of EHR vendors, including my own, that are more than willing to host medical applications and data. In all cases I know of, it'll be an in-house datacenter or colo, but I bet a lot of this gets replicated to someone else's cloud storage eventually.
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I'm a highly technical person, and I see the value in iOS versus an Android device, at least as they're generally available from carriers. I've been through 4 or 5 Android phones now, provided by my employers. The first was an early 1.6 device, but the others have run Android 2.x builds. The lack of consistency just in the UI is stunning, not necessarily beacuse of Android, but all the Motorola/Verizon/HTC shit on top of it. It's not that I can't figure out what versions run which apps, or what features changed between Android releases, it's that I really just shouldn't have to. I've got better stuff to blow mental energy on. ROMs, extensive customization, etc., aren't an option - there was a time that I might've been interested in dicking around with alternative ROMs and so on, but that's long since passed. With other actual work to do, the phone becomes just a tool and I expect the interface to be polished and consistent. Apple seems to get that.
Depends on your interpretation of "cloud" and HIPAA compliance, I think. Keeping HIPAA or privacy act stuff in plaintext on some general-purpose cloud service probably isn't good, but there are a number of EHR vendors, including my own, that are more than willing to host medical applications and data. In all cases I know of, it'll be an in-house datacenter or colo, but I bet a lot of this gets replicated to someone else's cloud storage eventually.