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More Milwaukee health systems moving to electronic health records

Why? They have money and subsidize the physicians. BD “The hurdle for most smaller physician practices has been the upfront cost,” said Dan Peterson, who oversees ProHealth Care’s EHR Advantage project. ProHealth will lease the software...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 3:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, Tablet PC

Bringing Providers, Health Care Executives and Administrators into the 21st Century

Below we have 2 different physicians, one who embraces technology so much to the fact that she has become an technology evangelist to help and convince other physicians to “buy in”, and she works as an emergency ER physician too. The second physician...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 2:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Windows Mobile, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, CIO, CEO, Health IT, Tablet PC, Physicians, PDA, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dictation, Speech Recognition, CTO, COO, Meetings, Windows Journal

Vassar College Using Tablet PCs for Research and Development

Anyone involved and R and D today can certainly take advantage of a Tablet PC. (I think those new fields reps for the FDA might even like this idea and concept too). Why walk around with an “ open pizza box” notebook, watch the video and see the...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 3:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Tablet PC, Pharma, FDA, R and D, Vassar, College

Inking in Windows Presentation Foundation – Tablet PC

Hard Hat Area: Most of the vibrant applications we are seeing today are using Silverlight, but prior to Silverlight we saw a lot of Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF is still very much in use for writing applications for Vista...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 6:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News

Nuance takes over Philips Speech Recognition Systems

Just yesterday I posted about the news with Microsoft Amalga and Philips Speech Recognition. If you are regular reader of the blog here you will find posts relative to Nuance, Dragon Naturally Speaking and Speech Recognition all over the place...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 11:40 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Nuance, Heatlh IT, Amalga, Speech Recognition, Phillips

Fujitsu-Siemens quietly introduces tablet PC

Siemens has been expanding the number of products it is now marketing and there have been a few I have listed here in the recent past such as a single sign on process , kiosks, and back in July they announced laying off over 16,000 employees. ...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 1:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, Other Items of Interest

Telemedicine may bridge gap

California covers this type of examination, but the compensation leaves a lot to be desired, as well as the training process for physicians to become familiar with using a computer. Just for comparison sake, in the UK, telemedicine is a priority...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 5:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Telemedicine

Doctors and patients to stay connected – Electronic Health Records

During the hurricane evacuation process, each headed different directions, but the doctor’s Blackberry notified him that he was need by a patient, and being both were in network and with electronic medical records, he was able to fill a prescription for...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 6:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Prescriptions

Intel buys mobile Linux startup

Intel is on the move today with either investing or purchasing entities to progress the future of technology. With this acquisition, it further makes the mark that Linux is continuing to evolve in today’s business world. Linux used to be viewed...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 2:38 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Intel, Tablet PC, Linux, Mobile Internet Devices, MID, Linux Suse

Windows Live Services – Wave 3 – Free Download

Do you like Outlook, but don’t have MS Office, well Windows Live Services might be just the email client you may be looking for. It installs on the desktop and looks very much like Outlook. I use Outlook and sometimes I use the Windows Live...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 3:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, microsoft, Live Services, Calendar, Outlook alternative, Email Client, Microsoft Live, Contacts, Windows Live Writer

Microsoft Aims to Redefine ‘I’m a PC’

Preview of new Microsoft ads, and guess what “I am a Tablet PC” They are not dead by any means and everyone who reads this site knows I use mine daily, in the office, away from the office and for taking notes in meetings. Check out the Tablet...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 4:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, medical, Tablet PC, Advertising, Tablet

Upgraded Dragon Medical Released - Version 10

Works great on Tablet PCs too. BD Nuance Communications Inc. has released Dragon Medical 10, the latest version of its real- time medical speech recognition software. The new release recognizes dictation nearly twice as fast as the previous version...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 7:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Tablet PC, Nuance, Dragon Naturally Speaking

Microsoft Speech Recognition Presentation - Computer Friends at the Oasis - Newport Beach, CA

The double click question and yes, I get that question quite frequently myself. I just happened to speak yesterday at a Computer Friends Users group in Newport Beach and it is always a joy to revisit the Oasis Computer Friends group. I left...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 12:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, Computers, Seniors, Computer Friends at the Oasis, Speech Recognition, Newport Beach

TabletKiosk has new onscreen keyboards for the Sahara and EO UMPCs

You can also choose your color and transparency settings. I can see this being handy on a unit let's say mounted in a freestanding unit too. With the touch screens on the Sahara and the UMPC units, no more having to use a stylus for entering...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 10:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Technology, Other Items of Interest

Medicine is a Low Tech Business - Clinical Studies still done on paper too!

Hat's off to the Wall Street Journal for mentioning this. Great topic and I'm going to rant and bring a few more details of this entire issue to light here. As any readers of this blog know I am a tech person that work with medical...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 2:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, Medical Records, Tablet PC, Google Health, FDA, clinical trials, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, Documentation

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