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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 [...]

Motion Computing Brings New Upgrades To Their Tablet PC’s

1, Apr 2009

It has been a while since Motion Computing updated their slate style Tablet PC’s.  Since then Panasonic has creatively borrowed the unique and “healthcare oriented” design to their line of rugged devices also targeted at healthcare professionals.  The new upgrades include a new black exterior and more interesting outside of aesthetics are the support for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Panasonic releases new slate based Toughbook

7, Nov 2008

  The  ruggedized healthcare targeted slate is built on a 1.86 GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, an 80GB SSD, a 10.4-inch 1024 x 768 resolution LCD display, and 802.11a/b/g/n which is very similar to current netbooks. Available in January of 2009 for $2,999.  While the price is steep its ruggedness typical with most [...]

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 [...]

USB and RFID Unite… Has Potential To Form An Innovative Solution for Patient Access

5, Sep 2008

The French Public transportation company will begin employing RFID-enabled USB keys this coming fall allowing passengers to plug the unit into their PC’s to fund their cards at home as part of their home-payment effort. This combination of RFID and USB key has several other applications outside of transportation. Of course what immediately comes to [...]

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 [...]

Installing OS X on an HP nw8240 laptop

4, Aug 2008

So I was doing a little research on how Apple has differentiated itself with its hardware compared to that of the commodity hardware in the PC Markets. I’ve heard of several stories when Apple converted to Intel processors of hackers trying to run OS X on non-Apple hardware. The biggest setback is the legacy BIOS [...]


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