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News Week of March 20, 2005An Education in Flexibility: Gateway Notebook-to-Tablet PCs Enhance Learning Virtually Anywhere on Campus at Winova State University Winona State University chose to standardize on Gateway notebook and desktop PCs through a seven-year agreement. The University was able to hand out 4,000 Gateway M275 Notebook-to-Tablet PCs to incoming freshmen and current students eligible for a technology refresh, as well as to faculty and staff. By providing PCs to each student, faculty and staff member, the University has been able to add classroom space by eliminating over 75 percent of its computer labs. Today, everyone on campus has 24/7 access to the Internet, documents and files from almost any building on campus. (Source: Bitpipe) Tablets Slated to Screen Youth Columbus Children's Hospital will use the technology to fulfill the requirements of the Trial of Automated Risk Appraisal for Adolescents Project, a program funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The program screens adolescents for use of alcohol and drugs as well as symptoms of mental disorders or other at-risk behaviors. (Source: Mobile Health Data) Tablets Slated to Screen Youth Columbus Children's Hospital will use the technology to fulfill the requirements of the Trial of Automated Risk Appraisal for Adolescents Project, a program funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The program screens adolescents for use of alcohol and drugs as well as symptoms of mental disorders or other at-risk behaviors. (Source: Mobile Health Data) Killer app is non-lethal That's why the idea of the tablet PC is so appealing to me. It's a chance to get back to the good old days of pen and paper and, more importantly, a chance to trade in my desk for my sofa. Tablet PCs, such as the Fujitsu T series Lifebook I tested out recently, mean having a choice — in theory at least. I can use the keyboard and work away, or if the type of work I'm doing would be as well or better served by putting my feet up, I can simply turn my display screen around, fold it back, pull out the stylus and be transported to the days of pen and paper. (Source: Poonam Khanna ITBusiness.CA) Alias Announces 'Expose Yourself 2' Winner Electronic ER Receives a Good Prognosis The Tablet PC: Expensive but cool Well, there is such a device, called the Tablet PC, and once again, PDA users have been moving to these new, more powerful devices in an effort to get as much computing power in as small a package as possible. Tablet PCs are certainly larger than PDAs - in fact, they're usually just slightly smaller than ultra-thin notebooks - but that's where the similarity ends. Tablets are much more akin to PDAs in that they can recognize users' handwriting, like the Graffiti function on a Palm Pilot. Tablets run a special version of Windows (based on XP) that can automatically recognize a user's handwriting and convert it to typed text. (Source: David Shamah, The Jerusalem Post) New York Auto Show: Cadillac DTS and Escalade ESVe limosNew York Auto Show: Cadillac DTS and Escalade ESVe limos Streamload Launches xStreamMail --the World s First Web-Based Email System for Sending and Receiving Full-Quality Video and Photo Collections Docs Get Hooked on Wi-Fi It gave physicians iPAQ PDAs from Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., to use over the Wi-Fi network in the main hospital. Deaconess also enabled them to access select data, including lab results, patient census and other information from its clinical information system from Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pa., as soon as they entered the hospital. This hospital-only access, however, wasn't enough for some physicians. Soon after realizing the benefits of wireless access in the hospital, some physicians wanted it in their practices, says CIO Mike Neeley. "Physicians wanted wireless access and didn't want the PCs in the exam rooms anymore," he says. So far, the hospital has enabled Wi-Fi access in one practice. Physicians in this practice now use Tablet PCs, also from Hewlett-Packard, to wirelessly access their practice management system, from Seattle-based Physician Micro Systems Inc. They also use them to wirelessly access some of the hospital's applications, including a picture archiving and communication system from GE Healthcare, Milwaukee. Greg Hindahl, M.D., has been an advocate of using the Tablet PCs while treating patients at the practice, Neeley says. Before Hindahl goes into an exam room, he spends 45 seconds reviewing information for his next patient on a Tablet PC. As a result, when he sees the patient, he knows their complete history without looking it up in front of them, Neeley says." (Source: Moblilehealthdata.com) Microsoft and HP’s New Mobility Initiatives in Insurance Nationwide Insurance (see case study at www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies) distributed several thousand Tablet PCs to its claims adjusters and has seen significant reduction in the time required to process claims. Eliminating redundant data entry has reduced errors, and agents are becoming more productive and increasing their sales. Nationwide obtains more accurate estimates, reducing the time and expense needed to resolve each claim. Though completing claims on-site has been a goal at Nationwide for many years, the difficulty of collecting and processing information in the field often prevented on-site resolution. Now, with Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Nationwide's adjusters travel to a claim site with all the tools they need to record the incident information and process the claim. Using Tablet PCs, adjusters input information directly into their estimation programs while inspecting damaged items. As a result, they have been able to increase the number of claims completed on-site by as much as 15 percent. (Source: Adam Kornak,Windows Financial Services) Tablet gets results, sports a lower cost Submitted for your consideration: the new Toshiba R15 Tablet PC. At $1,599 with a CD burner built in, it is dramatically lower priced than most contenders offering clipboard-size laptops that fold transformer style into handwriting-enabled tablets. But first some scene-setting. Before writing this column, I grabbed Toshiba's tablet and tapped my stylus on the screen to fire up its built-in wireless Internet access card. Then I took a walk and acted like a Wi-Fi meter reader.(Source: James Coats, Chicago Tribune, Charlotte Observer) New RSS feeds for Microsoft Tablet PC Newsgroups You can see the latest posts from the Microsoft Tablet PC newsgroups in your RSS reader. Also, if you click on the link for the article in your RSS reader, you are sent to the appropriate newsgroup article where you can reply. The Pocket PC and PC format allow you to use your Pocket PC or PC to read and reply to the newsgroup articles. Added RSS feeds for the following newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc Newsgroups are updated hourly. (Source: Chris De Herrera, Tablet PC Talk) |
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