As a former IT Admin for a medical clinic I can tell you that the medical software out there is generally outdated and usually running on older OS's and architectures. The doctors and other medical professionals want to do their jobs and not get bogged down in the technology. "If it works - don't fix it" is usually what they want - Not upgrading machines, software or anything else. Most of the time they point to the learning curve to teach people how to do things with new equipment (yes, some of the proprietary software out there is running -- still running -- on Win 98 and NT machines) or new software. Mandating EMR's (EHR) and "new" codes are good for patients for the most part. Unfortunately, Doctors and Software companies that supply them are very change resistant for a number of reasons.

My IPhone would be really smart if : 1) The carrier had a better network (really slow "3G" around here) 2) If I could use it without going to that crappy interface that you have to use. 3) If it actually worked with Linux 4) If I could Use Skype 5) If I could Use any browser I wanted 6) If I could get apps from anywhere and not just one vendor Those are just some off the top of my head but you can see how "stupid" my "smart phone" really is.

The big question of the day: Was the video DRM?