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Study: Diagnostic Imaging on iPads Twice As Slow

Brian Dolan | Mobi Health News | January 31, 2012

A study from the University of Maryland found that radiologists using iPad 2s to evaluate patients for tuberculosis (TB) took twice as long to make a diagnosis as they did when using a 27-inch LCD monitor. Still, the study of 200 negative and 40 positive TB cases that included five radiologists, found the two displays to yield no significant differences when it came to diagnostic decisions. Read More »

Tech Fast Forward Families Are Ripe For Health Care Self-Care

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | October 21, 2011

...I’ve dug into the demographic of the tech fast forward segment, and am interested to find a bifurcation within the income segment: while the most affluent households with over $150K annual income over-index by 2-fold for tech fast forwards, I note that the population with less than $49K a year also over-indexes (at 113) – higher than people $50-99.9K (indexed at 84) and families with $100-$1 Read More »

Under The Surface, Microsoft's ARM Tablet Is A Terrible Mistake

A.T. Faust III | AppAdvice.com | July 3, 2012

Unhappy with Microsoft’s intended release of a direct hardware competitor, HP has reportedly withdrawn its support for the Windows on ARM RT (or “WART”) platform. The sages at SemiAccurate acerbically explain the whole ugly affair: "…Microsoft just unveiled one of the largest and most unethical industrial espionage campaigns of the last few decades, so it is no surprise that everyone is jumping ship."...

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Unopened iPad Stolen from VA as Program Launches

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | October 31, 2011

As soon as the Department of Veterans Affairs launched its program to allow Apple iPad tablets to be used on the job, an unopened one was stolen from an agency office in Washington, according to a VA senior official. But that will not deter the VA’s plans to integrate mobile devices into healthcare delivery. Read More »

VA CIO Forecasts In-House Mobile Apps Store

Bob Brewin | NextGov | September 28, 2011

Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker envisions development of an in-house application store for mobile computing, he said Wednesday at a press briefing, where he also announced that VA is on course to open up its network to smartphones and tablet computers by Monday. Read More »

VA CIO Trades in Laptop for iPad

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 2, 2011

Roger Baker, CIO of the Veterans Affairs Department, has traded in his laptop and is testing the iPad with up to about 200 other VA employees, mostly physicians at its medical facilities. VA will permit employees on Oct. 1 to use Apple’s iPhone and iPad to connect to the department’s network in the course of their jobs. Read More »

VA Plans Government's Largest Tablet Computer Deployment

Bob Brewin and Joseph Marks | NextGov | October 24, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to field up to 100,000 tablet computers, the largest such deployment in the government, VA disclosed last week in a request to industry for technical help. The department has developed a work around for federal wireless security standards that supports the devices' management in a vendor-operated cloud computing environment, according to the request. Read More »

VA Prepared for New Employee Mobile Devices on Oct. 1

Alice Lipowicz | Federal Computer Week | September 29, 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department is on track to begin allowing additional types of mobile devices on its networks starting Oct. 1, but will start slowly with only about 1,000 users, according to Roger Baker, CIO and assistant secretary for information and technology.
Currently, the VA has about 17,000 Blackberry users. Read More »

What a Classroom Will Look Like in 10 Years

Sarah Fudin | OpenSource.com | November 15, 2011

Technology is rapidly evolving. This evolution is occurring because people are sharing ideas, resources and themselves online 24/7. Read More »

Will An Anti-Innovation Culture In The NHS Kill Off Technological Progress?

Dick Vinegar | Data Management Hub | June 10, 2014

Hackday system has best chance of overcoming bureaucratic regulatory process that stops apps getting traction they need...

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“The President of the United States is on the Phone. Would You Like to Hangout on Google+?”

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | January 24, 2012

We're suddenly very close to science fiction becoming reality television, live streamed to large and small screens around the world. Read More »