With both consumer and commercial medical devices, Bluetooth has become a preferred connection. I remember back to the early days of Bluetooth and we all used to sit around and wonder in the Windows Mobile group where Bluetooth was going to somehow fit it. The cell phone was the obvious answer...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, personal health record, Healthcre, Bluetooth
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 vowed to keep the paper trail going, that is...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-05-2008
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
More and more integration is being tied to your cell phone these days...here's a few examples of some additional work and work in progress...already I get alerts that tell me I have messages and now the phone is going to tell me when to take my pills, and if I were a diabetic reminders could be sent...
This goes hand in hand with some of my prior comments on standardization...basically in a couple words, "it's gone"... or I should say at least as we have known in the past. Standardization and certification processes are finding times very challenging today to provide that type of advice...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 05-12-2008
Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, My Commentaries, Cell phone, Health IT, Cisco, 802.11, Tablet PC, Mayo, Wireless Healthcare