Intel enters medicine with Mobile Clinical Assistant
updated 04:30 pm EST, Wed February 21, 2007
Intel Clinical Assistant
Though preceded by products like the CAREt Handheld, Intel is expanding the use of computers in medicine with the Mobile Clinical Assistant, being tested in England but already on sale in the US. Whereas the CAREt has a small screen and a limited keypad, the MCA is a full touchscreen tablet, and adds other hardware such as a digital camera for documenting wounds, and an RFID scanner for drugs and wristbands. Aside from these uses, the tablet can also be used to make referrals and instantly view test results. The convenience is not an inexpensive one, however: a base Motion Computing model costs $2,199.
