While these kinds of devices are pretty cool, some hospitals will be slow to adopt them. On hospital system that I worked for didn't even want to give the staff laptops to carry from room to room. The reason was that they got stolen by staff, patients, visitors, everybody.
I suppose that if this was a UMPC design that was crippled to the point of being useless to anybody outside the hospital, then that would help some. However, that would probably come at the cost of being flexible enough to run any hospital specific applications.
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kettch @ Sep 28th 2006 7:13PM
While these kinds of devices are pretty cool, some hospitals will be slow to adopt them. On hospital system that I worked for didn't even want to give the staff laptops to carry from room to room. The reason was that they got stolen by staff, patients, visitors, everybody.
I suppose that if this was a UMPC design that was crippled to the point of being useless to anybody outside the hospital, then that would help some. However, that would probably come at the cost of being flexible enough to run any hospital specific applications.