Re: [Thinkpad] T42p upgrade to ... T61 or X61 (maybe tablet)?

They make incredibly good tools for Physician offices. I have now placed
several, but the cost of a full system and software for Internal Medicine or
Family Medicine, is about $90,000. Ours even write prescriptions that
disappear if they are copied, and turn blank if they are not used within the
days the doctor required.

I would rank the medical use as one of the most astonishinly useful tools I
have ever seen in a medical setting, having spent 30 years with the Centers
for Disease Control and US Public Health Service.

I know we have employees on this list from the National Institutes of
Health. I am curious if the notepad type Thinkpads are in Public Health
Service offices yet.

the ones we market to Doctor's office anticipate every question, starting
with initial registration at the front desk, inserting Insurance, medicaid,
and medicare stuff... and communicate between referral surgeons, pain
management specialists, radiologists, and so on, while allowing a print out
for the patient if requested.

I can see these notepads used for all sorts of routine records management in
a number of professions.

I do not see them being of any value to me on my Everest, Tibet, and Nepal
trips. They do not do as well in the cold, and their battery is
comparatively limited.

Still, if you are in the business of providing tech support and computer
sales, I can recommend these as an area in which you should become very
familiar.

RayBay

On Nov 15, 2007 8:37 PM, David Ross <ross@math.hawaii.edu> wrote:

> >Undoubtedly, there are niche users for which a tablet form factor is
> indispensable. Right now, the tablet form factor feels more like a
> solution in search of a >problem.
>
> They are useful in an academic setting, for taking notes. Also for
> real-time annotation of lectures: if I am giving a talk from
> computerized slides, and someone asks me how an equation is derived or a
> theorem proved, I have to turn on the lights, raise the screen, and do
> the work on the blackboard. With a tabled PC I could pop up a drawing
> window do the derivation right on the screen.
>
> David
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