A Look Back at Healthcare IT in 2008

A brief overview of the main healthcare IT issues from 2008. It looks like there is a lot of room for expanding this commentary and coming up with a comprehensive approach to reforming healthcare IT as Obama's economic stimulus plan may have as much as $25B to invest in improving our IT systems. An emphasis on interoperability, mobility and open-source would seem to make sense. (registration may be necessary to view content on Modern Healthcare)

New Palm Phone and Operating System Launched!

Finally! A new phone from Palm. The new Operating Systems is designed to be "web-centric" and enables running multiple applications at once. The launcher and touch screen are very similar to the iPhone's. The form factors is actually thinner than the iPhone. IN addition, it has a slide-down QWERTY keyboard. This might be the best thing from Palm in years. I will be blogging in the coming weeks on medical applications that can work on the new Operating System, but my guess is that it will run all of the old Palm applications, plus a lot of new applications that will emerge. You can read more and see videos here. The device is going to launch exclusively through Sprint in the first half of this year.