On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:22, Richard Schilling wrote:
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This would be useful for traveling patients if it takes a minute or two to dump their EHR on to a CD in XHTML. Do this maybe once or twice a year?
or store the data on a memory stick. There's pen-sized 128MB USB drives available for under $200 now. That's plenty of space for a lot of raw patient data.
Not real certain where you are going with this but I believe the basics you can assume in industrialized countries is 56k internet connecton and a modern browser. If you are looking to have the ability to run a custom client on a patient's home PC I think you have an up hill climb.
I'm sure my upstart peers in my neighboring town of Redmond would like it all to be Internet Explorer :-)
You're right, hardware access will always be a problem.
I'm speaking about commoditization (sp?) of hardware. A PDA will be useful for basic data manipulation in the present or not-too-distant future. Smart cards get better and better as well. --Richard
--Tim
