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Title:

Potential Impact of the WiMax enabled PDAs on Digital Medicine

Author:

Ian Alexander, MD

WiMax is about sweeping changes in the remote handling of information and potentially even how we communicate. With high-speed data and Internet access available essentially anywhere in metropolitan areas, this technology is likely to have an impact on our personal and business lives on par with that of wireless voice communication.

Although healthcare may be delayed in adoption of this technology compared to business and society at large, it is inevitable that this technology will have a major impact on the provision of healthcare services. The purpose of this presentation is to explore the potential impact of WiMax technology, combined with increasingly capable pocket size computing devices, on the future of healthcare delivery.

Bio:

Dr. Ian Alexander is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and physician executive at SoftMed Systems Inc. He is a Mayo Clinic fellowship trained sub specialist in foot and ankle surgery. In 1995 he founded Aristar, Inc. with the immediate objective of leveraging information technology to eliminate the burden of dictation and cost of transcription while at the same time imrpoving the quality and timeliness of his clinical documentation and correspondence. Most recently Dr. Alexander has been working to facilitate multi-center outcomes data collection through the use of leading edge handheld and web technologies. With SoftMed's acquisition of Aristar in April of 2004, Dr. Alexander has refocused his efforts to bring handheld computer based point-of-care charge capture and electronic record keeping to a wider group of practitioners and to leverage structure documentation in the hospital setting to reduce costs, improve record and coding accuracy, and enhance provider and staff efficiency.