Mobile Health, or “mHealth”, offers benefits throughout the healthcare industry. For clinicians, mHealth is a method to remotely monitor a patient’s health and improve the quality care rendered. For patients, mHealth provides a way to monitor their own health more easily and reduces the cost of care by decreasing the amount of time spend at […]
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Mobile Development Best Practices
From Desktops to Mobile and Smart Phones – Lessons Learned This session at Lotusphere 2012 was presented by Usman Memonand focused on lessons learned and best practices many organizations face today when moving to mobile platforms. Some of the key lessons learned are highlighted here. Development Approaches and Considerations Users are attempting to access your […]
WebSphere Portal Mobile Accelerator
The mobility problem Too much diversity for a small set of new pages or JavaScript to handle. From infrastructure point of view, there are a lot of different apps that need to be mobilized. MPA solutions Extends IBM Portal to mobile devices One set of code delivered to many different devices. Developer needs to […]
The New “Gotta Have” Technology
Like many industries, information technology moves from one “hot” technology to another. Back in the mid-90s, the hot technology to have on your resume was the Java programming language and more importantly, server-side Java with the requisite knowledge of application servers such as IBM WebSphere or BEA WebLogic and EJBs/servlets. In the early 2000s, the […]
WebSphere Portal Mobile Themes
WebSphere Portal Mobile Themes Live from Lotusphere, Tyler Tribe and Jonathan Lidaka gave a presentation titled “Deliver Rich Mobile Experiences with IBM WebSphere Portal Mobile Theme.” First, let’s start with some mobile statistics. Mobile Statistics Within 5 years, 80% of all people will have a mobile device By 2020, 10 billion mobile connected devices Mobile […]
Android Design Site
Someone at Google Android must be reading my blog. Seriously though, Google just announced a website focused on aiding developers in the creation of smartphone applications for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The website will focus on features, design suggestions and approaches to different issues in Android application development. This website will augment the current […]
2011: The Year Mobile Figured Out IT, And Vice Versa
Thanks to Erin Moloney (@erine) for sending me the link. Bob Tinker, the CEO of MobileIron, has a nice article on Forbes.com about Mobile and IT, He makes five great points as to why Mobile figured out IT. Mobile IT is interdisciplinary Mobile IT is fast Mobile IT is mult-platform Mobile IT is driven by […]
Supporting the new superphones
Both Samsung and Microsoft have either announced or unveiled a line of phones that have been dubbed “superphones”. In the case of Samsung, the Galaxy Note, considered a cross between a tablet and a smartphone due to its size, contains a massive 5.3-inch display with a 1280 x 800-pixel resolution. Microsoft’s roadmap indicates that they […]
One Advantage of the Android Ecosystem
It has been no secret that Apple’s iPad has pretty much eaten Google Android’s lunch both in terms of sales and the accolades of the technical press. However, in one area, Android has outshone Apple and that is flexibility. This is by design on both Apple and Google’s part. In the case of Apple, Steve […]
Ask the Expert: How to Connect with Patients and Members using Social & Mobile Tools
Michael Porter is a Principal at Perficient for Portal, Social, and Collaboration solutions. He leverages 13 years of experience with portal and content management projects to help clients understand and take advantage of the value provided by web technologies. He has supported many multi-million dollar portal implementations for some of the world’s largest companies. Michael […]