Tuesday, January 10, 2012

iCHART: the next big thing

The Apple world is full of fun speculation. Apple fans expect innovative new products. So let me introduce you to iChart! Apple’s upcoming killer Enterprise product.A new  application allows doctors to keep their patients’ lives in their pockets in addition to their own.Caretools calls its iChart app a "personal medical assistant," which stores everything from patient data to charts and lists of medications in a streamlined, organized fashion.

To ensure diagnostic procedures aren’t outdated, the application regularly updates with new medical data pulled from healthcare networks.Though theoretically such an application could exist on other smartphones, tech-savvy doctors view the application for medical imaging given its visual, intuitive interface and reasonably powerful processor.

iChart is a flip chart on steroids. It borrows the best from the past, building on the lowly paper flip chart and the easy sharing built into Electronic Whiteboards. It redefine the future of presentations. iChart breaks the monotony of the PowerPoint / Keynote presentations with live customized notations (by the presenter), audience participation, and simply pinch and zoom sorting. Finally, the flexibility of transparencies again. And yet so much more….. Airplay, video conferencing, and dual or multiscreen presentation possibilities. iChart is the future for any boardroom presentation, training room discussion; presenting the data in a format more adaptive and free flowing, enabling the presenter to work the displays in  a multi-modal fashion. Like brainstorming? Like post-its? Like enabling an audience? 


So would you want an iChart in your business? How would you use it?
Will iChart kill other telepresence / video conferencing products with it’s FaceTime built in? What might it mean for networked meetings? What special apps could it be loaded with? How might these be used in store? For promotions?
What would the real screen specs be? How much would it weigh? How low could the cost be? It appears the real cost will be in the screen?