Healthcare delivery
I work in the healthcare industry, and I write code that deals with patient records when they are most important : at the point of care. So, I have been researching on what would be helpful to make the process of dealing with patients in hospitals more simpler, efficient and streamlined.
My company's current approach has been to deliver information via the network on web-applications, there by reducing the overhead costs involved in deploying windows forms based applications. With the current win-web divide rapidly deteriorating, I see web-apps as the most sensible option as well.
However, the end system was always more of a concern to me. Pressing issues like :
- Network bandwidth usage.
- Security concerns over sensitive-data transfer.
- Storage and Backup
- End-user screen resolution
- Color-choice
- Hand-writing recognition.
- Speech storage and Speech-to-text conversion
amongst others have been pressing concerns so far. I shall go into further detail about health-care technology delivery concerns in a different post some other time.
Then I recently I saw what Philips had to offer.
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This is the older version with Win XP pre-installed in it. For a list of all the features, look here.
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The latest version comes with Windows Vista. For a list of all the features , look here
Quick take : Seems impressive on the first take, but how comfortable is something of this nature to hold in your hand, and operate ! Once or twice ... maybe yes...not always.