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News Week of December 23, 2007Wacom Cintiq 12WX LCD Pen Tablet Video Review CES 2008 PCs and hardware preview Prep school students buy own tablet PCs for classroom work At Brophy College Preparatory, a private Jesuit high school in Phoenix, half of the 1,200 students no longer use textbooks -- or paper, pen or pencils for that matter. Using a tablet PC and the school's wireless Internet, students download assignments in every class, upload tests to the teacher immediately after taking them and take notes with an electronic stylus that records writing as if it were on paper. Following a 30-student, seven-teacher pilot study in 2006, nearly 700 students -- the entire freshman and sophomore classes -- and 80 teachers are using the system. Brophy freshman are required to purchase a $2,250 tablet PC. The school offers financial aid to those who qualify. "It's an inevitability that you are going to need technology before heading off to college or into the work force," said Mike Nelson, Brophy vice president of technology and a fine arts instructor. (Source: Ty Young Phoenix Business Journal) Tablet PC has right touch A tap of your finger is all it takes to control Toshiba's newest tablet PC. Designed with a backlit LED screen that responds to both a digital pen and a fingertip, the tablet PC boasts a 12.1-inch wide-screen anti-glare display, a spill-resistant keyboard and a shock-absorbing design. (Source: Deborah, Porterfield, Gannett News Service, APP.com) Mi-Co E-Forms Point of Care Solution for Home Health Fully Compliant for 2008 PPS Changes Mi-Co, the mobile data capture software company, today announced that its Point of Care E-Forms Solution, Mi-Forms for Home Health, is fully compliant with the Prospective Payment System (PPS) 1.6 specifications approved by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for January 1, 2008. The OMB changed the Outcome and Assessment Data Set (OASIS) that provides information needed for the revised PPS in 2008. These changes by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services are the first full-scale reform of the Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment System since it was introduced in October 2000. While many home health care providers have been scrambling to make changes to paper forms and electronic processes that accommodate PPS, customers using Mi-Co's Point of Care E-Forms Solution have already been provided with fully revised and field tested electronic forms that incorporate the changes to the OASIS data set. "Mi-Co's homecare customers can be confident that their Mi-Forms E-Forms for Point of Care correctly reflect the OMB's 1.6 specifications," said Melissa Neal, VP of Sales for Mi-Co. "Mi-Co customers can continue to accurately capture OASIS data at the point of care via our easy handwritten forms interface, have that data checked against the new OASIS rules in real-time, and then immediately transmit the electronic data through the system, thereby ensuring proper and timely availability for processing for payments." Home health organizations had less than 60 days from the final rules approval by OMB to change their processes to become compliant with the new PPS. Ensuring accurate data in OASIS assessments is a critical element of providing quality of care and receiving proper reimbursements, and directly affects every Medicare-certified agency's bottom line. Mi-Forms for Home Health allows agencies to eliminate paper forms in the field while providing nursing staff with a comfortable, easy-to-use handwritten forms interface on a Tablet PC. This Point of Care E-Forms Solutions saves time and money, improves efficiency and accuracy, and provides more timely access to OASIS data. (Source: Press release) Tablet computers at crossroads? Upon the launch of the Tablet PC, some analysts projected annual sales as high as 10 million units by 2007. In reality, they've been a fraction of that - expected to come in around 1.7 million in 2007. "I think [Microsoft] succeeded in the sense that there are still vendors introducing Tablets," said analyst Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research. "I don't think they succeeded in the way that they'd hoped it would become a standard paradigm for mobile computing." (Source: Boston Globe, Seattle Post-Intelligencer) MobileTechRoundup 118 - HTC Touch Dual, WiBrain UMPC, and Dell Tablet PC MIT, Sony Turn Hand Sketches Into Physics-ready Systems (With Videos) |
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