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Archive for March, 2009

Electronic Health Records – Possible or Not?

March 17th, 2009 by Chris Schassler

There have been a large number of articles published regarding electronic health records.  I wanted to share my thoughts given that this is an area that I believe has a tremendous amount of potential.  This topic is nothing new, it has been discussed, tried, abandoned, and retried a number of times.  Things are different now though in some important ways.  For starters it has a great deal of federal attention, President Obama campaigned on the subject and he has justified it as a big step in helping to improve the economy.  Secondly, the tools needed to facilitate this type of system are a lot more powerful.  Handling large amounts of unstructured data and classifying, tagging, and searching has all become relatively easy. (more…)

iPhone 3.0 and Content Management

March 17th, 2009 by Jim Nasr

So, the much anticipated announcement about iPhone 3.0 is out shortly–in about 1 hour to be precise. Lots of exciting new functionality rumored–cut & paste (finally!), MMS (why hasn’t it been here already?), better bluetooth functionality, etc. What I’m most interested about though is push notifications: the ability for apps to receive notifications from servers, without needing to open them first. For example, to receive offline instant messages. (more…)