Mac Tablet: potential best seller in healthcare?

There have been a lot of rumors about an upcoming Apple “iTablet.” Just as this could be a success in the consumer market, it could be a huge bestseller in healthcare. Why?

Well, a Mac Tablet would be the ultimate user interface for electronic medical records (EMR) software. With a touch-screen display like the iPhone, it could help physicians speed up normal EMR operations. For example, when physicians evaluate a patient’s illness, they have to enter an evaluation and management (E&M) code into the EMR. The code represents what service the physician performed during the visit. This process would be simplified using a Mac Tablet; the doctor could “dial in” the code with a swipe of a finger.

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Touchscreen Acer netbooks to appear by the end of the year

President of Acer (JT Wang) himself has confirmed that the Acer has been working on touchscreen netbooks, which will be made available by the end of this year. The EEE T101 is NOT going to left alone in competition of touch screen netbooks/tablets. I hope they make them with swivel display so that they can be used as tablets

Companies preparing to introduce Multi-Touch technology in netbooks and UMPCs

Plethora of Taiwanese LCD manufactures are readying themselves for the Windows 7′s multi-touch feature. Young Fast Optoelectronics, a Taiwanese company has already started manufacturing capacitive screens for the notebooks and will soon start manufacturing for the netbooks. Resistive touch screen makers like Mildex Optical will also start production to give some competition to the capacitive screen manufactures.

Windows 7 will probably be launched later this year (or early next year) and most of the netbook manufactures will FINALLY make switch from Windows XP to Windows 7. The reason is simple: Windows 7 offers some great multi-touch features which can change the way we use our devices and it will result in bump in demand of touch panels in netbooks/UMPCs.