The Philips Cliniscape MCA104 medical tablet PC: DR McCoy from Star Trek would be proud

When Star Trek first hit our screens many of us fell in love with the technology and thought that we would never see this kind of technology, but now it seems that much of the technology is part of our ever day life. Take the communicator, well that’s a cell phone, how about those sliding doors, we now have them at the mall. Well it now seems as if DR McCoy has passed something to us now, and that is the Philips Cliniscape MCA104 medical tablet PC.

This Mobile Clinical Assistant designed by Intel’s Digital Health Group is just that latest piece of technology that will be heading to our hospitals. The Philips Cliniscape MCA104 medical tablet PC has a 10.4-inch touch screen, a core solo processor with 1GB of RAM, and the tablet is running a custom installation of Vista Business. Other features for the Philips CliniScape mobile clinical assistant are 2 megapixel camera, barcode scanner and RFID and Bluetooth radios, and a battery life of 3.5-hours.

As you would expect the Philips CliniScape mobile clinical assistant has a sealed medical-grade enclosure which can be wiped clean. Philips is now working with software vendors to help optimize their patient-care apps, and it is hoped that the Cliniscape MCA104 will be on sale by the spring of 2008.