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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.

Installing Windows 7 on a Mac OSX Bootcamp Partition

13, Oct 2009

So I’ve been running Windows 7 since early September when the release to production copy was opened up for MSDN subscribers.  I can honestly attest that this is by far the best relese of Windows to come out of Redmond to-date.  The ugly duckling known as Vista has shed its skin and what has emerged [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Synergy How To For Mac and PC

10, Jan 2009

Working in an environment with multiple OS’s can be challenging when you have to shuffle between multiple keyboards and mice. A KVM only offers a single view of one device at a time, which is challenging when you need to switch between them frequently. I’m a huge advocate of virtual machines but you are still [...]

Blackberry Storm First Impressions

25, Nov 2008

Like most large enterprises we have our fair share of smartphones in use.  While IT tries to keep this limited to a select few, I did recently get a hands-on with the new touch screen Blackberry Storm from Verizon.  Being an iPhone user myself I can certainly say it was a different experience and RIM [...]

VMWare Fusion 2.0 for the Mac

22, Sep 2008

About two weeks ago VMWare released the 2.0 version of their Fusion VM software for the Mac.  It is certainly worthy of a full point release with the level of integration between the host OS and the virtualized OS increased tremendously. It is interesting to note that VMWare Fusion offers the option to install McAffee [...]

HealthVault Connection Center Beta 1.2

13, Sep 2008

Microsoft has just released HealthVault Connection Center Beta v1.2 which is a desktop utility that helps people upload data from health and fitness devices to their HealthVault account.  This is a good step in bridging the gap between a patient and physician between visits.  Having an updated list of blood pressure, weight, peak flow measurements, [...]

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 [...]

Health Monitoring Solutions for Patients

29, Aug 2008

Intel Health PHS5000 is not the first implementation of an in-house health monitor but if I were to judge by the looks of the User Interface I would say this device may have some promise for monitoring one’s health at home so long as you stay home most of the time. Currently being trialed in [...]


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