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Mobile health update: Devices and solutions for healthcare professionals-part 1

Posted By: Laura Foy | Apr 11th @ 12:14 PM

Among the attributes of information technology solutions designed for healthcare professionals, mobility is high on the list. Doctors, nurses, and other clinicians are always on the move, and the IT solutions they use must move with them. Fortunately, there is now a wide selection of very capable devices and applications to meet the needs of highly mobile medical professionals.

 

In this special two-part video edition of House Calls for Healthcare Professionals, Dr.  Crounse and his guests review some of the options. The first program takes a look at four popular mobile devices running Windows Mobile 6. The second program reviews a useful application from IQMax that provides mobile access to patient lists, lab reports, x-ray results, and more wherever that information is needed. Other useful functions include charge capture and real-time dictation of chart notes, discharge summaries, and documents using a smartphone.

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A Flash Drive that Backs Itself Up

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jan 11th @ 12:29 AM
The 4 GB SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus USB flash drive is a new breed of flash drive. Instead of being a potential security risk, you can safely store your sensitive, important data on the drive without fear of losing it or deleting the files. The device is protected with password protection and hardware AES encryption, so you only you can access the files. When the Cruzer is plugged into an internet-connected machine, the drive will automatically back itself up online using 256-bit SSL encryption. If you accidentally delete files off of the drive, they can be easily restored from the online backup. Additionally, the files can be accessed via the website even when you don't have have the drive with you. The rugged, crush resistant case offers a layer of physical protection to the USB drive as well. An optional Lost-and-Found service can be utilized if you choose to pay the added expense for a BoomerangIt subscription. The drive comes with 6 months of the online backup service for free, after which you must pay the $30 annual fee to continue using it. For all this, the Cruzer's price of only $60 seems pretty reasonable for the security and peace of mind that it offers. (Via Webware)
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Microsoft and Ford Sync up

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Sep 19th, 2007 @ 6:30 AM
You may remember back in January when Microsoft announced a partnership with Ford to collaborate on a way to control your mobile devices while behind the wheel via voice. Sync works with most Bluetooth-enabled phones and popular media devices (full list here).

For $395 (the same price as racing stripes on the Mustang) Sync will allow you to place calls by name, read incoming text messages, call out playlist names to your media player, or even ask it what it's playing. Detroit Free Press reporter Sarah Webster took Sync for a 2-day spin and it's an interesting read. She came away calling Sync a first step in "something potentially life changing."

Sync is a respectable little device with a 400Mhz processor and is open to developers which I think is the best feature, because the future of Sync will driven by consumer demand and the imagination of developers. Sync is available in a number of 2008 Fords, Mercury, and Lincolns, which are hitting the showrooms now. You can find out more about Sync at Ford's site www.SyncMyRide.com.
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Two great new (free) Media Center features

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Sep 17th, 2007 @ 4:01 PM
For those who have Media Center PCs, two new features are hitting the platform as free updates, CEPro reports. The first is Internet TV, which is an ad-supported section of content available from a tab next to "Recorded TV". This feature, not to be confused with Microsoft's IPTV, will consist of on-demand programs such as TV reruns and sporting events.

The second feature, which I'm very excited about, is the ability to enjoy the content on your Media Center PC from a web browser anywhere in the world through a feature called WebGuide. This means you can watch "Lost" on the Media Center at your house from a hotel on the road or from your cellphone on a bus.

WebGuide also allows interaction with your Media Center through RSS for your recorded TV shows as well as interaction with a Vista Sidebar gadget on your desktop. And for those of you lucky enough to already have a Windows Home Server, there is also a beta of WebGuide available now that will give you these same features.
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Geeks on Peaks - Microsoft Mount Logan Climb

Posted By: Jeff Sandquist | May 5th, 2007 @ 2:42 PM
I just received an email from Larry Larsen who is on his way to Mount Logan to begin our coverage of Geeks On Peaks.  Larry has just checked into Whitehorse, Canada on his way to the base camp for the climb.

For this expedition our plan was to use all consumer-level gear for the technology. Ideally, the main computer for the climb was going to be an OQO2. The problem is that hard drive heads tend to lie down on the platters after 10,000 feet. So by 19,551 feet the computer might be worthless. So instead we're using a Sony Vaio UX, the new handheld micro-computer, loaned to us by the UMPC team at Microsoft.  The nice thing about the Sony UX is that it doesn't have a hard drive. It uses a 32GB flash drive instead.

You can follow along over on Summits of Canada via Live Maps and Larry will be uploading coverage as soon as possible.

Good luck Larry and be safe!
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Geeks on Peaks: Tech expedition of Mt. Logan

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Apr 18th, 2007 @ 8:02 PM
Channel 10, in conjunction with Summits of Canada, is sponsoring an expedition to summit Mount Logan in early May. During the month-long trek, James Coleridge will document, blog, shoot pictures, and do video interviews from the second highest peak in North America.

I'll be joining the group until the half way mark, two miles above sea level, at which point I will turn and run for the nearest fireplace, but we'll be following them here on Channel 10 during the whole month of May. You can follow along too, watching the group progress on a dynamic Live Search map and catching the live interviews or photo galleries.
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Audio-Cast Review: Hot New Mobile Devices for Healthcare Professionals

Posted By: Bill Crounse, MD | Sep 22nd, 2006 @ 9:14 AM

Please join me for the latest in my audio-cast series; House Calls for Healthcare Professionals.  This month's program takes a look at the most compelling devices for mobile healthcare professonals.  I hope you enjoy the show.

Bill Crounse, MD     Healthcare Industry Director     Microsoft

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What’s hot and maybe what’s not for today’s highly mobile healthcare professionals? Nobody wants just a pager or cell phone anymore. Today’s clinicians are looking for devices that provide voice communication, e-mail, text messaging, web access, information, point of care solutions, video, MP3 player, TV, and games.  They want it all. And thanks to a wide selection of popular devices running Windows Mobile 5.0, they can have it all. But deciding which device and what solutions are right for you can be a bit mind numbing.

Program

Hot New Mobile Devices for Healthcare Professionals
This program is also available in MP3 for download

Click here for an at a glance review of mobile devices discussed during the program.

Panel Guests

Dr. Edward Zabrek, has been the chief medical editor for Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine, and a full time, practicing Ob-Gyn at Memorial City-Memorial Hermann Hospital Systems in Houston, Texas. He has an ambitious dream to “evolutionize” patient care with Windows Mobile devices. Formerly an independent consultant to Samsung Electronics’ Wireless division, he is always seeking ways to advance this dream.

Hemang Patel works as a Mobility Solutions Specialist in the Healthcare and Life Sciences enterprise customer space at Microsoft Corporation. He focuses on messaging and vertically related solutions involved the Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone devices. He has been involved with the wireless and IP soft switching industry for over 11 years in a variety of roles. Hemang comes to Microsoft from Sprint Nextel Corporation. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Premed from The George Washington University.


Robert Quinn is Senior.V.P. of Engineering and CTO for EpocratesBob brings to the Epocrates team nearly 20 years of experience as an engineer and software development manager. Prior to joining Epocrates, Bob served as VP of Engineering for iDini Corporation, a wireless software startup, and held a variety of technical and engineering-management positions with IBM. He received his Bachelors degree from Dartmouth College, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, and was a research fellow at Harvard University.
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