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Wednesday, April 07, 2004
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The Channel 9 Concept
Dave Winer gives the lead-in to this project/blog created by the Microsoft's tech evangelists.
Channel 9 seeks to utilize one of the blogosphere's strongest paradigms: transparency. The Channel 9 Doctrine is very Cluetrain-like, avoiding the press release approach to presenting a technology product, allowing a conversation among the developers and the potential/real end-users.
These evangelists can provide very levels of technical details along with heavy use of multi-media which can clearly and explicitly demonstrate what magic these tech products are expected to perform. I think this is a much needed approach to presenting tech options for those who are considering and/or planning any type of implementation.
11:33:38 PM 
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Analysts Push for Combined Wi-Fi/Cellular
This is a post on wifinetnews.com by Nancy Gohring linking to several stories about projections for these oft-considered competing technologies.
I'm always saying that predictions are the least reliable type of information, but seems to generate the most business technology articles, and consultant fees. But there is a growing demand for handhelds that offer both services, or even tri-wireless if you include Bluetooth. The limiting factor is battery life. This has been mentioned in the Wired piece Moore's Second Law - If we don't do something about increasing battery life, we're toast.
The problem can be stated in a single word: wireless. When Intel cofounder Gordon Moore made his famous proclamation in 1965, he may have anticipated the existence of untethered electronics. But in those days of core memory and wired logic, integrated circuits were seen as astounding breakthroughs in energy conservation. No one could have imagined that billions of chips would be in use, each packed with millions of transistors - and that so many of the chips would unplug themselves from the wall.
10:48:35 PM
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Special Deal for Dell's Axim X3i
You can purchase this PDA with integrated 802.11b with a 15% discount ($297) and free next-day shipping. This handheld is running the Windows Mobile 2003 OS.
10:34:12 PM
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Skype Announces VOIP Software for Wi-Fi Handhelds
Users need a handheld computer running Microsoft Corp.'s (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) Windows Mobile 2003 operating system with "Wi-Fi" Internet connectivity, and must be within range of a Wi-Fi hub.
Right now you're limited to calling only Skype users, but the plan is to offer access to all phone numbers in 3-4 months for "very competitive rate."
Andy Abramson gives his experience with using software of this type on a handheld.
Given my experience with FastChat and the XTEN Softphone on the Pocket PC, the one element I'm concerned about is the sound quality. Based on a few trials most people on the other end report that the sound is thin, or muffled. The mic on the Pocket PC is not telephonic grade. But, we're early in the game.
10:11:36 PM
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Hewlett Packard Healthcare Explains VOIP
This is a good, concise explanation of the basic terms, its importance and acceptance by businesses.
At long last, thanks to improved technology and cheap bandwidth, it appears the time for VoIP has finally arrived. In fact, a recent Information Week survey of 300 business technology executives found that more than 80 percent of them are using, testing, or planning to deploy VoIP technology. What's more, Gartner estimates that IP phone systems will constitute 97 percent of the telephone market by 2007. And with AT&T and other telcos now embracing rather than fighting the technology, such bullish VoIP predictions are gaining in credibility.
10:05:30 PM
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HealthRamp Begins Trial at Long-term Care Facility
Country Estates of Agawam, Mass., will use mobile health software from New York-based HealthRamp. [HealthRamp is a subsidiary of Ramp Corp.]The long-term care facility, an affiliate of Commonwealth Communities of Stoughton, Massachusetts, will implement the software, dubbed CareGiver, for a three-month trial.
I'm citing this story because I was directed to this company by a Sprint Healthcare representative who felt that they were committed to including smartphones in their development plans.
11:40:56 AM
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Microsoft Anticipates Clinical Smartphone Use
This post on Mobile Health Data site talks about their interview with Bill Keay, enterprise mobility solutions specialist for health care and life sciences at Microsoft Corp.
Additionally, smart phones may see increased use in health care organizations in the near future, he adds. Their inherent communication abilities give smart phones an edge in the communication area over other mobile hardware, making them useful to physicians who aren't connected to their organization's Wi-Fi network, Keay says. For example, some physicians prefer to use Tablet PCs as their mobile hardware of choice while at the hospital. But these physicians also want a separate, smaller device they can use to stay connected while at home. Smart phones, which typically run on mobile phone networks, could fulfill this need, he argues.
11:29:13 AM
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Bronx Hospital Embraces Online Technology That Others Avoid
This is the companion article to the one mentioned below, and described a successful implementation at the Montefiore Medical Center, which has to date cost $100 million.
"There is no question that Montefiore is a national leader," said Dr. William Stead, an expert on hospital technology and director of the Informatics Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center, another leader in the field. "I think everybody agrees that the old process is simply unacceptable and that everyone is going to go the way Montefiore has gone and we have. But so far, not many hospitals have."
11:16:56 AM
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Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient Care (registration required)
This is an article from yesterday's NY Times Business Day section.
It mentions the Bush and Kerry commitment to funding hospital computerization in light of the reported 98,000 avoidable deaths a year that patient safety systems might mitigate. But their commitment falls short of the estimated $20 billion required to implement these systems in every hospital by the end of the decade. Hospitals are questioning ROI, and anticipating a drop in cost of these systems years from now.
Yet even now, despite pressure from large employers, unions and health care advocacy groups - and aggressive marketing by vendors - only a few dozen medical centers across the country are making full use of the latest computerized patient safety systems.
10:55:14 AM
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