Tablet PC Nursing

New surprise OneNote powertoy coming on Monday according to OneNote Testing blog. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2008/02/28/a-nice-surprise-and-powertoy-should-be-ready-on-monday.aspx

Microsoft has announced (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-13AmalgaPR.mspx) the Amalga (formerly Azyxxi) family of Enterprise Health Systems.

Components of the Amalga family include:

• Amalga - a unified intelligence system that provides a single point for unified access to the wealth of information present in a healthcare organization.
• Amalga Hospital Information System (HIS) - a fully integrated, single solution hospital information system.
• Amalga RIS/PACS - an integrated Radiology Information System (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).

For more information see: http://www.microsoft.com/amalga/default.mspx

It will be interesting to see how Tablet PC technology will be integrated into these Microsoft healthcare technologies.

Microsoft Research has released a very cool prototype Tablet PC application. It is called InkSeine. I heard about this project several months ago; but until this week this application was only available to Microsofties. It has been called "Windows Journal on steroids". It has a new user interface specific to the Tablet PC that utilizes gestures to select menu items. It is a free download. I just downloaded the application and have started working with it.

Information and the download can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/InkSeine/. Additional information can also be found at the InkSeine Development Team's blog at: http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/alpineinker/default.aspx. GottaBeMobile also has additional information at: http://www.gottabemobile.com/GBM+InkShow+InkSeine.aspx