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San Antonio HIMSS August Meeting

17, Aug 2010

Join us on August 19th Educational Session at Dave & Busters at 11:30 a.m. To register online visit our website at www.sahimss.org

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.

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 [...]

iPhone Development

24, Mar 2009

Curiosity got the best of me this evening so I signed up for the iPhone Developer Program.  Being a person who has lived through several horrible user interfaces, Apples approach is refreshingly simple and with many more capabilities in the 3.0 release of the iPhone firmware I think there are many more unique applicaitons to [...]

Onward and upward…

7, Nov 2008

The posts have been a little slow recently because I have transitioned into a new position as Director of Applications for WellMed Medical Group, Inc. It is an amazing company with a tremendous amount of growth.  I’m into my second week and have had no problem immersing myself in the many concurrent projects tha are [...]

Alcatel-Lucent Announces TikiTag RFID Reader and Tag Kit for Developers

8, Sep 2008

An Alcatel-Lucent backed product called Tikitag is an RFID tagging system set to go live on October 1st . Much along to the same lines as my last RFID post this product has a lot of applicability for linking physical tags with websites. The first thing that comes to mind is the use of such [...]

Microsoft Developing Its Own App Store for Windows Mobile?

31, Aug 2008

It appears that Microsoft, noticing the success of the App Store from Apple, is set to launch its own app store for windows mobile platforms given a recent job posting on computerjob.com. The description states the senior project manager will ead a team that will “drive the launch of a v1 marketpace service for Windows [...]

Conversation with Bill Crounse, M.D.

27, Aug 2008

I had a great discussion with Dr. Bill Crounse, Director of Worldwide Health at Microsoft about their direction and focus on healthcare initiatives.  I’ve followed Bill’s blog for about a year and his insight into the ways Microsoft is innovating in healthcare is insightful.  He mentioned working with Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s former blogger extrodionare, and [...]

Microsoft Health Users Group Tech Forum 2008

26, Aug 2008

Today’s keynote was given by Steve Aylward, General Manager, Health & Life Sciences for Microsoft Corp. He discussed how focused Microsoft is in the healthcare space and how they really see this as a long-term investment to which they are investing a large portion of their resources to this vertical. While he couldn’t disclose exactly [...]

Teens to take embarrassing ailments to Second Life doctors

16, Aug 2008

Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through Second Life designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem. “This idea started as a way to connect real health professionals and adolescents and to give internet users a reliable space to get health advice.”  [...]


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