Why Cramming Desktop Apps Onto Tablets Won’t Work

By February 18, 2013Technology

Most of the clinical applications that are in use today were written for traditional Microsoft Windows desktops. That is to say they require a Windows Operating System, a Microsoft browser such as IE7 and either Java in the browser (or?) and a fat Java client. Try to access these applications on a tablet device such as iPad or any of the Android form factors and it most likely won’t work at all, if it does work, it will look pretty terrible and most of the touch screen and gestures aspects will be absent.

A clinician on the move with a tablet PC will only need access to a subset of functionality, so why try and shoe-horn a Windows web application on to a 7 inch screen and expect them to navigate around? That’s doesn’t make any sense.

The MIA Portal, delivered as a virtual appliance, takes only essential information from existing clinical applications, deals with the Windows/IE/Java dependencies and re-styles it in to a new, sleek and user-friendly tablet application that exploits the features of mobile devices whether it’s an iPad or Android devices. Best of all it’s done securely using the NHS Smartcard.

NHS usable data, when and where you need it on the device of your choice… now that’s innovation.

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