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Posted in Mobile Video on June 7th, 2011 by Mark Hollander

Could Telemedicine & Telepresence Be The Great Cost-Cutter?

Telemedicine – the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients using telecommunications, usually 2-way audio/video – is gaining traction. According to a recent study by Manhattan Research, seven percent of U.S. physicians use online video conferencing to communicate with their patients.

Popular consumer video chat applications like Skype Video Calls and Apple FaceTime have eased the way for patients to perceive video as just one more channel of communication. And as Manhattan Research found, some specialities are early adopters, such as psychiatry read more…

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Posted in Mobile on February 4th, 2011 by Mark Hollander

iPads In Hospital: A Wicked Case of Tablet Fever

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iPads 2011: The Year of Mobile Medical Media

Stacey Homan, marketing specialist at AtriCure, blogged that 70% of Hospitals are going to deploy iPads in 2011.  This makes sense, as more than half of physicians are already using a healthcare application on a smart phone. Personally my own physician uses an iPhone. And when I get back home, I look up drug-drug interaction using Epocrates, (which once prevented a potentially fatal prescribing error).

iPad fever has also spread to thought leaders like read more…

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Posted in Social Media on May 23rd, 2009 by Mark Hollander

Social Media is mired in a massive hype cycle

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“Signal to Noise” refers to the ratio between the desired signal – music for example – to noise like static and hiss.  On your iPod, you want more signal and less noise.

And according Brian Roy, president and founder of Cosinity a firm creating communications applications Social Media is suffering from a lot of noise.

He suggests that some of this noise is attributable to the two groups who benefit: Marketers and the Monitors.

Marketers – looking for a more cost-effective way to read more…

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Posted in Buzzword Status Report on March 26th, 2008 by Mark Hollander

What is Foo Bar? And are they open late?

Foo Bar is neither a bar nor a restaurant. Nor should it be confused with F.U.B.A.R. (F*d Up Beyond All Repair).  Rather it is a placeholder name for computer programmers and seems to have been around forever.  A metasyntactic variable (a triple word score Scrabble word if ever there was one) the term

is commonly used to denote the subject matter under discussion or an arbitrary member of a class of things under discussion.

My personal experience in seeing in the README read more…

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Posted in Buzzword Status Report on March 26th, 2008 by Mark Hollander

What’s a Tumblr? Should I Get One?

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Tumblr is a mobile-phone optimized blogging website that turns ordinary people into mobile artists. Optimized for those quirky little camera phones, Blackberry’s and iPhones we all carry, this free web site is all about snippets of information. Think of it as Twitter without the noise. My personal site is gotham.tubmlr.com You can post information to this blogging system from any mobile phone by sending an email to a specialized email address. If you have access to a web browser read more…

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Posted in Mobile Video on February 26th, 2007 by Mark Hollander

You Must Embrace Your Enemy’s Technology

The admonition “keep your friends close and your enemies even closer” has never been more true that today with the launch of BitTorrent.com which has wooed Hollywood into this noble experiment featuring 1,000+ feature films available for legal download at a price points between $1.99 – $3.99. What makes this a hot story is that BitTorrent is a peer to peer (P2P) client historically used for trading in pirated movies. But forward-thinking studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount read more…

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