Cisco Healthcare Summit - Pittsburgh

I had the opportunity today to attend the Cisco Healthcare Summit in Pittsburgh at the Cisco office. Before I talk abou tthat, let me talk about one of my favorite shows. NCIS-LA. I turned on my DVR, sat down and began to watch the story unfold. Dekes best friend growing up and his snitch turned in an arms dealer. This dealer was going to get his revenge. So, what do our agents do, stage a killing. Now without going into all the details of the episode, there were a few scenes where the CIUS was used. Very cool. Great product placement. So, as I walked in to the office this morning the last thing on my mind was the CIUS. I was here to learn about Cisco's Telepresence.

I knew Cisco was a communications company but I did not know about the extent of their work in servers, cloud computing and virtualization. Great products and great solutions. For the kid in me though all I could think of was, I have the opportunity to play with the Cisco CIUS.

It's Cisco foray into the tablet world. Although, I do not like the term tablet since tablets have been around for many years. I am not sure what to call them, notepad? Appple started the trend with the Ipad and now everyone from Motorola, Samsung, Viewsonic and now Cisco. Although I did not have much time to play with it, wanted to take it home. Some of the features include HD output, USB port and built in web wex in a stylish 7"in form with 802.11a/b/n/g, ethernet port, bluetooth 3.o,3G/4G and 5mp rear facing cameras with built in support for a suite of cisco communications services. As a healthcare professional, there is tremendous opportunity for cisco with this product as it integrates into their unified communications.

The product overview from Cisco's website:

Cisco Cius^™ (Figure 1) is a mobile collaboration tablet built for business. It is designed to help organizations capitalize on the value of mobility by enabling anywhere, anytime access to important business features:

• Campus mobility with IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n, and broad mobility with 3G (4G planned) cellular support

• High-resolution multi-touch color display with an intuitive user interface

• High-definition (HD) video with Cisco TelePresence^™ solution interoperability

• Virtual desktop client integration (VDI) and cloud computing

• Full range of Cisco Collaboration and Unified Communication applications

• Open access to the Google Android Market with appropriate IT controls

• Expanded Android applications for business, linking Cisco Collaboration APIs through a software developer kit (SDK)

• Accessories, sold separately, which include base stations for enhanced capabilities and carrying cases for stylish yet functional protection while mobile

I wonder if mHealth is going to move towrds..tHealth (tablet health)..nHealth (notepad health).Here is a nice review of the top Android tablets. http://hubpages.com/hub/Android-Tablets-2011 As always, please leave your comments.