Author: Hans
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Disruptive technology #1: Video games
In light of the recent announcements at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), I will start by profiling my first prediction for a disruptive technology: video games. The video game industry has exploded from being entertainment for children to a $11 billion industry in the United States alone! What may surprise even more is that…
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Long live the handheld!
It would seem that the “death of the handheld computer” is somewhat premature. An article in yesterday’s Globe & Mail reports how “smart phones” are being pushed by telecom companies and hardware manufacturers alike as the convergence device of the future. I would agree that the original “personal digital assistant” (PDA) didn’t stand a chance…
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Health care leads in wireless adoption
Now here’s an absolute surprise: health care is a leader in adopting wireless technology! Computerworld.com’s special report on “Mobile & Wireless” has an in-depth article on the use of wireless technology in health care. The article presents findings of a survey by market research firm IDC conducted in 2004. IDC found that “more than 80%…
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"Open source" for the masses? A report on open source
Here’s an online resource that I forgot to write about. This report is titled “Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential“. It’s freely available in electronic format. I haven’t read the entire report in detail, but here’s the gist. The authors believe that “open source” methods, which have been successful in the software…
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eHealth and rural communities: Can eHealth keep hospitals from closing?
We keep talking about how eHealth will bring about benefits to the health care system by making it more efficient and effective, but I wonder if there isn’t a significant western, urban “group think”, or even myopic view at play here. In my (limited) dealings with health care issues concerning northern and rural parts of…
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Changing and challenging futures for eHealth companies
Two recent articles suggest that the times are a changin’ for software companies (and eHealth companies too). The two articles are: “Execs Tell Software Makers: ‘Some of You Are Doomed’“, and “Emerging ASP model targets health records“ The first article, in my opinion, is more telling of the impending changes. Let’s face it – software…
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A taste for exotic cooking?
One of the mailing lists I’m on circulated a personal observation regarding some of the work that’s being done in East Asia, notably South Korea by Prof. Young Moon Chae. The moderator of the mailing list suggested that “Korea will be a hot bed in telemedicine in the future”. That’s an interesting and bold statement.…
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Standards wars – Is there a solution?
Since I’m sick and lying in bed today, I’ve been making a few cosmetic changes to my blog. It really sucks to be me because it’s sunny and warm outside and I’ve got some type of bug. Okay, enough whining… I’m working with MJ Suhonos to try and get my blog aggregated on the Journal…