I have been involved in setting up this kind of application on the Newton.
Check out
http://www.incresearch.com/core_query.php3?Sec=0401
Some of our stuff on patient diaries and questionnaires has been published.
Anyone want a reprint, send me your mailing address off-list.
I was also featured in an Apple UK promotion in 1997. Again I'll send copies
to anyone who is interested.
I've also been involved in setting up cognitive tests on the Newton (I
published the first report of a pen-computer cognitive test back in 1993).
Info on www.penscreen.com
All the best -- B
Brian Tiplady
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AstraZeneca UK Clinical Research Group
10 Logie Mill, Logie Green Road, Edinburgh EH7 4HG, UK
Tel: +44 (0)131 652 3107 Fax: +44 (0)131 556 3307
EMail: brian.tiplady_at_astrazeneca.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Witte [mailto:jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us]
Sent: Sat 18 May 2002 01:40
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Newtons in Medcine
Hi,
Were there any pilot plans afoot when the Newton was alive for using
it for patient data entry, instead of the ubiquitous sheet you fill out
every time you see the doctor? This is one of the most obvious things I
had imagined that the Newton would have been really good at: instead of
the paper, the patient just gets a NewtonSlate type device to fill out,
which would automatically upload stuff into a database (anybody else see
this as a gimme for integration with WebObjects NOW?)
A couple of caveats I see for the state of Newton tech at the time (5+
years ago): The screen would have to be bigger, probably a half-page at
least, and I think it would have to be 100 dpi or greater to be
reasonable for ink text for someone who had never used it (I find it
hard sometimes to write even on the 2100 becasue the resolution is lower
than paper [duh!], especially with ink-text which shrinks your text and
I think throws out some of the fine points of the stoke in the stroke
compression). Contrast would have to be a bit higher than the 2100 -
130 certainly and LCD that didn't have the temperature-contrast problems
that the 2100 does. The processor would have to be at least 2100 speed
(or have a seperate one that was dedicated to recognition).
Jim
> I was just at the TEPR ("Toward an Electronic Patient Record") meeting
> in
> Seattle. It's mostly for physicians regarding electronic medical
> records.
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