Kind of funny- I'm so used to having to upgrade my hardware when Microsoft unveils a new version of Windows. . .heck, the Dell I'm using now is running like crap since I installed IE 8 that I want to throw it. I'm in a bit of disbelief that Apple is releasing an OS that will actually utilize a smaller system resource footprint.

I know some folks who've been testing Beta versions of Snow Leopard and love it, so I sprung for the twenty nine bucks and pre-ordered.

 

I saw this today, what is snow leopard?

 

The other cool thing, at least in my opinion, native Microsoft Exchange support. Now I can decide if I want to ditch Entourage.

 

People still use IE?

 

I just ordered it too. Too bad I wont be able to use it on my Power Mac.

 

Unfortunately, it's the only supported browser of my office management software. Slowly, things are changing but in the medical field we've been very pigeonholed into using "Wintel" products, even though many doctors prefer the Apple platform and GUI.

 

link

 

Every EMR and PACS system I've worked with only works with IE.

 

It's really sad that the "best minds" in the industry came together and the best solution that MSHUGS could come up with is HL-7.

The knowledge for a top-line, patient-based EMR already exists, piecemeal, between technology at the major search engines, social networking sites and "brick and mortar" tech companies such as IBM, Apple, GE and Microsoft. If we want to talk about price gouging in medicine, we need look no further than the barrel we're currently dragged over in support of the current HL-7 based EMR and PACS systems.

Until the industry becomes more open-sourced, I'm sitting on the sidelines. The $35K EMR that I implemented in 1998 (Cadusys for anyone who cares to know) went bankrupt.

 

I am currently working on a distributed pacs system that is compatible with mac/win/linux.

We are HIPPA complaint. We have been toying with developing EMR as well. We'll see.