sync has built in text to speech and will reply with a set of 15 predefined responses. Sync is much better than standard texting regarding safety.
Lets also not ignore:
Auto dial 9/11 when you get in an accident, car health reports, voice only GPS with up to date road conditions and rerouting, Heuristics of said GPS that learns your typical routs, voice commands for making calls, stereo bluetooth support for devices with that capability.... and next year they will open the SDK up, allowing even greater integration between smartphone apps and the sync system through custom apps meant to communicate with the app on the phone.
Most Health Care IT systems are to make billing more accurate and to make the lives of the bean counters and managers easier. Most of the systems my group deploy are used to support the patient care process. almost all of them are built to provide better billing and data tracking and are not meant to make the lives of the care giver easier. That situation has caused Doctors and Nurses to be skeptical of new systems.
One area where we have had a lot of Physician excitement though has been our HIM-EDMS. They love that their chart deficencies are sent to their centricity inbox and they just click on the deficiency alert, get taken into the app for completion , complete the deficiency and they are done. No more going to HIM being handed a huge stack of charts to sift through with post-it tabs for hours.
Now, if we can just get Centricity Home-Base to work well and get the charge nurses to use it properly, the nursing staff might see some great efficiency improvements.
Nurses and Doctors hate change. Unless you make them do something tehy will work around it. Weak administration policies and enforcment are the cause of the problems, not the systems themselves (for the most part)
Menon PTR does a good job of packaging data into PDFs. Most EMR systems are capable of importing PDF data. The process of indexing that data might be manual, or, depending on the quality of the EMR/ EDM system, could auto index the material.
Your opinion as to the quality of their project staff may vary though.
The rules are set by historical precedence. Western culture has cast aspersions on Black people by claiming they were more closely related to chimps than white people. Calling a Black person a monkey IS racist because of the history behind it. Calling Bush a Chimp because he looks like one (his ears and facial characteristics at times) does not have the same history behind it so it is not racist.
No... actually I have demonstrated that I hate both languages. I never intended to get into some deep analytical comparison between the two. The fact that I hate using both is plenty for me to say using one reminds me of using the other. I hate both because they are both pains in the ass. So one reminds me of the other. Kind of like how I hate driving a truck and piloting a boat so one reminds me of the other.
I am glad I can make you feel smart by providing an opportunity for you to bitch about something I wasn't talking about.
I don't ignore reality... I think you missed the jist of the discussion here.
the current web stack is in no way remotely capable of "defeating" flash and silverlight in the rich web application world. HTML 5 has been touted as such because of its support for a few new features that allow it to enter the room where flash and silver light are fighting it out currently.
Frankly, I am dubious about html 5's capability in that area.
You however seem to be living in a fantasy land if you think that XHTML has any future beyond 1.0.
Javascript is the crappiest language to do what you are attempting to do on the web. Every time I hear someone talking about javascript + HTML 5 +Canvas I want to rip their head off and shit down their neck.
If the OSS folks are so great at making standards, then why the fuck haven't they replaced the attack vector, POS VBA wanna-be Javascript with something good?
Javascript blows ass and is used as an attack vector on every major platform. CSS half works and sucks to get working everywhere. SVG is good but... Silverlight has xml based vector graphics. SMIL... seriously?
But what am I saying... Canvas and the Video tag will save the world.
Seriously... if Web Development in the standards world could simplify the stack, everyone would be happy. Flash (bleh) and Silverlight simplify the Web dev stack and bring more power and faster turn around to developers. While the hippies are tweaking their divs to look right everywhere, I am sipping margaritas on my Deck.
If W3C would dump Javascript for something real like Perl or Python or Ruby, then I think the world would start to be a better place. Javascript reminds me of VBA. (shudders in disgust)
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you don't pay attention to the darpa challenge winners do you?
It knows current traffic conditions and can automatically inform you of problems along your rout to work for instance
not sure how the / was added. Must be phantom hand syndrome.
sync has built in text to speech and will reply with a set of 15 predefined responses. Sync is much better than standard texting regarding safety.
Lets also not ignore:
Auto dial 9/11 when you get in an accident, car health reports, voice only GPS with up to date road conditions and rerouting, Heuristics of said GPS that learns your typical routs, voice commands for making calls, stereo bluetooth support for devices with that capability.... and next year they will open the SDK up, allowing even greater integration between smartphone apps and the sync system through custom apps meant to communicate with the app on the phone.
I accept that.
Most Health Care IT systems are to make billing more accurate and to make the lives of the bean counters and managers easier. Most of the systems my group deploy are used to support the patient care process. almost all of them are built to provide better billing and data tracking and are not meant to make the lives of the care giver easier. That situation has caused Doctors and Nurses to be skeptical of new systems.
One area where we have had a lot of Physician excitement though has been our HIM-EDMS. They love that their chart deficencies are sent to their centricity inbox and they just click on the deficiency alert, get taken into the app for completion , complete the deficiency and they are done. No more going to HIM being handed a huge stack of charts to sift through with post-it tabs for hours.
Now, if we can just get Centricity Home-Base to work well and get the charge nurses to use it properly, the nursing staff might see some great efficiency improvements.
Nurses and Doctors hate change. Unless you make them do something tehy will work around it. Weak administration policies and enforcment are the cause of the problems, not the systems themselves (for the most part)
your mothers experience is an example of WHY the systems cost more... idiot users and idiot systems that let idiot users behave like idiots.
30 years of pid based interface messages and some how someone expected HL7 3 to take off?
Menon PTR does a good job of packaging data into PDFs. Most EMR systems are capable of importing PDF data. The process of indexing that data might be manual, or, depending on the quality of the EMR/ EDM system, could auto index the material.
Your opinion as to the quality of their project staff may vary though.
That is why you get a head hunter.
The rules are set by historical precedence. Western culture has cast aspersions on Black people by claiming they were more closely related to chimps than white people. Calling a Black person a monkey IS racist because of the history behind it. Calling Bush a Chimp because he looks like one (his ears and facial characteristics at times) does not have the same history behind it so it is not racist.
Racism is in the intent, not the words.
No... actually I have demonstrated that I hate both languages. I never intended to get into some deep analytical comparison between the two. The fact that I hate using both is plenty for me to say using one reminds me of using the other. I hate both because they are both pains in the ass. So one reminds me of the other. Kind of like how I hate driving a truck and piloting a boat so one reminds me of the other.
I am glad I can make you feel smart by providing an opportunity for you to bitch about something I wasn't talking about.
3.5 is on any XP machine that is updated.
MS pushes those out all the time. As long as XP is in support .Net will be available for it and pushed out to it.
my comparison was very shallow as it was meant to be. VBA sucks ass... Javascript sucks ass... hey look ... I compared them.
The fact is, it can be read so objects can be identified and so readers can be written to read XAML.
you are right. I did biff my meaning.
I don't ignore reality... I think you missed the jist of the discussion here.
the current web stack is in no way remotely capable of "defeating" flash and silverlight in the rich web application world. HTML 5 has been touted as such because of its support for a few new features that allow it to enter the room where flash and silver light are fighting it out currently.
Frankly, I am dubious about html 5's capability in that area.
You however seem to be living in a fantasy land if you think that XHTML has any future beyond 1.0.
Not deployment from the web... deployment as a web application.
what a shock... a MS-anti fanboy doesn't even understand what MS is doing here.
who the hell is installing .net? it is part of the OS... that is like complaining about installing win32.
Javascript is the crappiest language to do what you are attempting to do on the web. Every time I hear someone talking about javascript + HTML 5 +Canvas I want to rip their head off and shit down their neck.
If the OSS folks are so great at making standards, then why the fuck haven't they replaced the attack vector, POS VBA wanna-be Javascript with something good?
uh... silverlight has used XML based markup since 1.0... screen readers can see the fucking UI code.
XHTML? dude... welcome to 2000. Try HTML 5.
Javascript blows ass and is used as an attack vector on every major platform. CSS half works and sucks to get working everywhere. SVG is good but... Silverlight has xml based vector graphics. SMIL... seriously?
But what am I saying... Canvas and the Video tag will save the world.
Seriously... if Web Development in the standards world could simplify the stack, everyone would be happy. Flash (bleh) and Silverlight simplify the Web dev stack and bring more power and faster turn around to developers. While the hippies are tweaking their divs to look right everywhere, I am sipping margaritas on my Deck.
If W3C would dump Javascript for something real like Perl or Python or Ruby, then I think the world would start to be a better place. Javascript reminds me of VBA. (shudders in disgust)
I have crappy DSL and Netflix never recalibrates.
Hulu just gives you shite picture.
deploying my desktop application in 5 easy steps to the web is not compelling?