"Will Health Care Get Smart?"
I participated by providing an interview for this article in the latest issue of Health Data Management examining the use of a PDA/phone for clinical use. The subhead is important to note:
Though most clinicians have yet to use a smart phone, industry experts say the mobile hardware has many potential health care applications.
I think the term "smart phone" can be misleading, and it would be preferable to talk about the issues of convergence in a handheld. Not to get hung up with the semantics, the basic issue is designing a device that is convenient and has the right balance of features to make your life easier to manage. Just recently, I ran across a relevant editorial, Palm vs. Pocket PC: The Paths Grow Nearer, by Steven Bush of Brighthand.com:
Some industry analysts have begun to predict the death of handhelds, citing the growth in smart cell phones, and other convergent devices, as its death knell. But it appears that Palm, with its Handspring acquisition, and Microsoft, with its Smartphone platform, have recognized that their original destination was not, in fact, Shangri-la, but a mirage, and have set their sights on the new promised land.
In a previous post on this blog, I discussed a similar view, calling it "convergent evolution." It is easily realized that optimized form of a device working under the same parameters would be very similar in form.
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