Archive for the ‘Electronic Medical Record’ Category

What makes a successful mobile device?

31, Mar 2010

Just because you can run your desktop app on a mobile devices doesn’t mean you should.

My issues with mobile computing in healthcare revolve around technologies that get in the way of providers and clinicians doing their core job which is attending to patients and not fumbling through hundreds of check boxes and interfaces designed to be used on a desktop.

Inagural San Antonio HIMSS Chapter Meeting was a Huge Success

15, Nov 2009

This past week started one of many future events for the local San Antonio HIMSS Chapter. Our speaker, Bill Phillips, CIO of University Health System gave a very informative speech and real-world take on EMR deployments. Many thanks to Bill for starting us off on a great foot.

Preparing for the MS Healthcare User Group 2009 Conference

31, Aug 2009

  I’ll be headed to Redmond, WA tomorrow for the 2009 Microsoft Healthcare User Group conference.   If you follow this blog you will remember I attended last year and came back with a slightly less jaded perspective of Microsoft’s efforts in the health care space.  As a company I think Microsoft has made some great strides in [...]

Case for Better Healthcare

26, May 2009

IBM Case for Better Healthcare

Apple’s Tablet iBook?

9, Mar 2009

If we are to believe Apple then there is no intent on offering a slate based tablet platform.  However as evidenced by recent Chinese-language financial newspapers this week it is claimed that Wintek has been selected to manufacture touchscreens for a device targeted at the netbook category.  I’ll be the first to admit that I [...]

2009 TEPR+ Conference

3, Feb 2009

2009 TEPR+ conference in Palm Springs, CA


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