Ingenious Med Founder, Steven Liu, Earns Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine Designation

Ingenious Med Founder, Steven Liu, Earns Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine Designation

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 22, 2010-- The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has announced that
Steven Liu, MD, chairman and founder of healthcare IT company, Ingenious Med, is among the more than 150 hospitalists nationwide who have earned the inaugural designation of Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM).

Babies, sleep, and handheld computers

What's the link? Well, I have a new baby at home. The last time I had a new baby at home, I was severely sleep-deprived. However, I still wanted to do a bit of computing (sorry, I can't help myself) and I was able to do this with different handheld computers.

Now that smartphones are becoming more powerful, I may be able to use my HTC Touch Pro2 running Opera Mobile 10 (beta) to do most of my computing. However, I also have the option of using my OQO model 02 or my Samsung Q1 Ultra. Both of these are handheld devices and I use a wrist strap so that if I accidentally drop it, it doesn't hit the floor.

Continue to follow this blog and you may see me holding a baby and doing some handheld computing...

Star Trek and Medical Computers

You may not be surprised to know that I'm a Star Trek fan. I'm not a super-serious fan, but I'm also a bit more than your average fan. Anyways, I love the medical gadgets that appear in science fiction films. I often wonder if we'll see tablet PCs that are thin and light like the ones that appear on Star Trek. Maybe the color touch-screen Amazon Kindle will be the closest thing to the type of small tablet that's seen in science fiction movies.

The medical tricorder is seen in Star Trek as a handheld computer that scans people and immediate provides a diagnosis. We now have handheld ultrasound probes. You can even plug EKG leads to a handheld PDA (running the Palm OS or Windows Mobile). Will we see something like the tricorder in our lifetime?