Short post today. Here’s a cool article on hand scans for electronic medical visit check-ins. It’s a few days old, so I’m sure I’ve been beaten to the punch by my fellow Tweeters and Bloggers, but I have to say a big “Wow!” Now if anyone can figure out how much it costs, I would be grateful to know. Surprisingly, Googling it doesn’t turn up the cost anywhere that I can find. That might be foreboding sign, but I like to hope for pleasant surprises.
Dr. West is an endocrinologist in private practice in Washington, DC. He completed fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. West opened The Washington Endocrine Clinic, PLLC, as a solo practice in 2009. He can be reached at doctorwestindc@gmail.com. Computo ergo sum.
I saw this hand scanner at HIMSS. It was in the Fujitsu booth (although this was from one of their partners). I liked it a lot. Definitely was an interesting implementation. Plus, I just love anything biometric.
I want to say when we talked price that it was something like $5000 for the hand scanner. However, there was also a software purchase as well. I could be wrong on this, but that’s what I remember off the top of my head.
That’s unfortunate. Will take a long time to pay itself off, if it ever does. But still very cool! I want one!