InfoMedMD

Has anyone tried visiting InfoMedMD? Looks like a very interesting site that offers to provide immediate medical information for your symptoms. This site appears to be unique compared to other consumer health sites by tailoring information.

Will this company gain traction? According to Compete.com, this site has been getting a respectable amount of traffic over the last few months.

Internet Sharing - Bluetooth

I love the "Internet Sharing" feature on my XV6800. I can easily connect my UMPC through Bluetooth and have instant internet access without any cables or wires. Thanks Bluetooth! This is great because BT uses less power on my UMPC than Wi-Fi.

So, although my connection speeds may not be lightning fast, they are adequate for what I need to do. I'd rather have longer battery life anyways.

Using my OQO model 02 and loving it!

My faithful OQO model 02 served me well today when I was out all day on the field. Well, I wasn't technically on the field. I was outside though - for several hours for that matter. As usual, I was connected through my Verizon Wireless XV6800 so I was checking my e-mail, doing some PubMed research, and reading medical news.

I don't use my OQO as much these days since I'm not traveling very much. For a while there, I wasn't sure how to best use the OQO since I have other small devices. However, I've been giving this tiny little machine another shot because it's so small and yet so useful. I really hope that the UMPC market picks up in the healthcare sector. There is so much potential for ways to improve healthcare if clinicians leverage the different capabilities offered by emerging technologies.

Opera Mini vs. Opera Mobile

I've been testing both Opera Mobile and Opera Mini on my XV6800. Both are currently free and they represent some of the best mobile web browsers that are currently available. In fact, I would even say that they are the best browsers.

Opera Mobile consumes too much memory. I often get "out of memory" messages when viewing web pages.

Opera Mini is much faster and more efficient. Hence, I've been mainly using this as my main browser. You'll need a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run Opera Mini on the XV6800 or on any other Pocket PC / Windows Mobile device.

Blogs by Medical Students and Residents

I truly admire how some medical students and residents spend their time blogging. I hope they're able to keep up with their studies and clinical responsibilities. It's great to see students and clinicians leveraging Web 2.0 technologies. Think about how this will all evolve as these rising physicians enter the workforce. Communication, data collection, problem solving, networking - all these will be closely integrated with Web 2.0 for healthcare professionals. This is a glimpse of the future.

Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Tablet PC

I can't wait for the Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Tablet PC to come out. The X41 and X61 are both great tablet PCs, but I think the X200 will be the best among the three.

By the way, if you're looking for some great deals on a X61 tablet PC, check out the Lenovo Outlet.

So, when will we see the X200 Tablet PC appear on the Lenovo website?

Rivaroxaban submitted for FDA approval

What will happen to all those patients on coumadin (warfarin) if we get a new pill that requires no INR monitoring? Well, rivaroxaban (Xarelto®) may be that first pill in the USA. Rivaroxaban has been submitted for FDA approval. It acts by inhibiting factor Xa, so there is no INR to check since it does not work like warfarin (that inhibits vitamin K-dependent clotting factors).

What will happen to all those Coumadin clinics out there? What about all those fingerstick INR machines? Labs processing those weekely INR checks?

There was a lot of excitement several years ago with the development of Ximelagatran (Exanta). Live toxicity ended the development of that drug in the USA.

Some great pictures of OQO users

There are some great photos of doctors using the OQO. The OQO model 02 is such an innovative machine. It was also great seeing people using the older OQO model 01 and 01+

Take a look here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/oqousers/

Next generation capsule endoscopy

The future of capsule endoscopy may be in miniature robotic arms that can take biopsies and perform therapeutic functions. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed this capsule that has robotic arms that open to "hold" the capsule in-place in the gut. Essentially, these arms open to get this capsule stuck. Then, when the arms retract and close, the capsule is free to continue its course through the GI tract.

Want to read more? Then take a look at Technology Review.

Get Skype for your XV6800

Get Skype for Windows Mobile. The latest version supports Windows Mobile 6.1

http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windowsmobile/

XV6800 with GPS vs. iPhone

Since I'm on Verizon Wireless, I can't use an iPhone. However, I can use the XV6800 that has a built-in GPS chip. To use the GPS in the XV6800 (also known as the Sprint Mogul or the HTC Titan), you have to make some custom changes to the operating system (or ROM).

The nice thing about the XV6800 is that it runs on Windows Mobile 6 (or 6.1 if you load customized ROM). Therefore, you can run all sorts of GPS and mapping software, ranging from TomTom Navigator, Garmin Mobile, and several other software packages. Plus, there are FREE software solutions like Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search. Before you know it, you'll have a fully-functional GPS navigation unit in your hand.

The future of free EHR solutions

Will the future of EMR and EHR be open source and/or free advertisement-supported platforms? Marketing and advertising are so important to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, so there shouldn't be any problem funding EHR solutions that are ad-based. Will that be the future model for success?

So many physicians are unable to afford paying for standard EHR solutions. They can't afford the software + hardware + support that is needed to effectively run EHR in their practice. However, if the software cost = $0, then uptake could rise tremendously. Furtheremore, if support could also be FREE, then we'd have a winning solution.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) is using the term EHR over EMR, so I think that will become standard terminology. Free or open source EHR solutions should be CCHIT certified if they want to be competitive.

J Kim, MD, MPH

Those are my initials: J Kim, MD, MPH
or, more simply: JK, MD, MPH

There are obviously others who also have the same initials. Here are just a few:

Joe Kim, MD, MPH
http://www.csmc.edu/12988.html

John Kim, MD, MPH
http://www.baim.citymax.com/healers.html

Want to know how many people have J Kim, MD? That list seems endless...