Do you qualify as a  “super mobile” physician? If you use both a smartphone and tablet computer in your practice, and have plied the devices to scope out new drugs and to conduct clinical research, you’re a high achieving technology adopter. According to a survey by QuantiaMD, an online physician community, one in four physicians qualify as such “super mobile” physicians, while about 83% of doctors own at least one mobile device.

Physicians often are portrayed as latter-day Luddites. However, that’s an urban myth, according to Peter Henderson of PatientKeeper, a Boston-based health information system provider.

As if Facebook and Twitter and other social media don’t offer enough cyber-information overload, the newest player in the age of social networking is doctor and hospital rating sites. More than 30 such rate-your-doctor Websites exist today, including Healthgrades.com and RateMDs.com, as well as more general consumer guides such as Angielist.com – more known for rating plumbers than clinicians – and Yelp.com.