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Could tablet computers be the future of EMRs?
Houston Neal wrote an interesting article about the rumour of a Mac tablet computer, and it’s implications for healthcare, particularly EMR:
Mac Tablet? - The Ultimate Device for EMRs?
He claims Apple has an opportunity to position themselves in the health market, if they create a reliable tablet interface.
I am not convinced that Apple is creating a [...]
Simple file management with Fresh
The makers of Leap (who I have no commercial affiliation with, review here) have recently released a access level tagging program. Fresh is a useful document utility, which has three main functions:
Tracking “fresh” or most recently used documents
Tagging files (searchable by spotlight)
Document launcher, or shelf for frequently accessed files
File access
Your seven most recently accessed [...]
Process: Just another Project manager
I have been working with a review version of Jumsoft’s Process, which is a task manager and project management tool. As always, I am looking at this in terms of managing my personal projects rather than managing group or corporate projects.
The functions
Basically, this is a task manager, where tasks are grouped under projects. [...]
Comparing Autofocus and GTD
I have been a long-time fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done, and I have recently started using Mark Forster’s Autofocus system. After about a month of using Autofocus (paper), I thought it would be useful to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the systems.
I would like to add that purists on both sides [...]
Leap: the nirvana of digital filing
Since I last wrote about digital filing, I have found nirvana - Leap ($34, Ironic Software). Most filing solutions I have tried were either slow, proprietary or limited. Now that I have found Leap, I realise that other solutions try to do too much. Instead of organising files into a database with [...]