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Earning employee buy-in is a challenge for many IT managers when looking to rollout a new mobile solution to a large or small field force. At Panasonic we’ve established some best practices to garner employee buy-in early on and streamline the deployment process.
Earlier this week I participated in Intel’s Healthcare Innovation Summit, a webcast event featuring the industry’s leading voices for actionable, real-world insights into the innovative methodologies, tools, and technologies driving the next generation of healthcare delivery.
Panasonic values the educational opportunities offered by these types of peer-focused events. We have created an environment for customers and partners to interact with each other and share best practices through programs like the Panasonic Healthcare Symposium and the Panasonic Thought Leadership Forum. Both conferences are great opportunities to understand how similar organizations approach mobile technology challenges.
In today’s world, business travel is a requirement for almost any job. According to IDC, the world’s mobile worker population will grow to nearly 1.2 billion people – more than a third of the world’s workforce – by 2013. For any executive or professional that spends a great deal of time away from the office, [...]
Today, former Microsoft executive, Steven VanRoekel, was announced as the replacement for the inaugural Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra. Kundra announced in June that he would resign this month for a fellowship at Harvard University. VanRoekel was most recently with the U.S. Agency for International Development, after a post as managing director of the of the Federal Communications Commission.
The past two years have seen a massive influx of tablet devices in the enterprise space. IDC predicts overall global unit shipments of tablets in 2011 will be 53.5 million units. The iPad’s popularity has created great demand for the tablet form factor and caused many enterprises to start thinking about how they can implement [...]
Panasonic made its first fully-rugged entry into the rugged mobile computing market back in 1996 with the Toughbook 25. As the demand for such devices grew, so did the market. However, these devices, often used in military and public safety settings, were over engineered for other markets such as insurance, military support and logistics, field [...]
Variety Care had previously been using commercial grade tablets that were not specifically designed for the demands of a healthcare environment; these tablets experienced breaks and failures which resulted in clinician downtime. Manager of Information Systems, Carl Flippin wanted to enhance the facility’s workflow with mobile devices that were durable, portable, lightweight, reliable and had wireless capabilities.
Flippin met with DataSource Mobility, a value added IT reseller with an expertise is mobile technology, to discuss the criteria for Variety Care’s next mobile computing solution. After research and evaluation, the Panasonic Toughbook T8 computers proved to be the ultimate solution.
For the past 15 years Panasonic has been equipping field technicians in industries such as utilities and telecommunications with rugged, mobile computing devices. Extended battery life is essential as these technicians are often in the field for an entire shift. As a result, Panasonic has always offered industry-leading battery life in its rugged line of [...]
A unique requirement for mobile devices in healthcare environments is their ability to withstand repeated sanitization – for infection control purposes – without damage. If a device isn’t designed with this in mind, the harsh chemicals can adversely impact cases and screens. In 2009, a new virulent form of influenza swept the world, reaching Japan [...]
