Just before the Jewish New Year, Houston Neal from Software Advice pinged me, asking for my opinion about a post he wrote – Seven Great Applications for IP-PBXs in the Medical Practice. In this post he outlines a few ideas on how VoIP can be used in healthcare. Specifically on how IP-PBXs can be combined with Electronic Health Records (EHR). I’ve written here before about mobile video telephony and health care, but this is a bit different. This time the idea is to mesh up one service with another. And there’s no better way to do that than using VoIP. The Internet has brought us the ability to link services together in ways impossible to do before (or at least too hard to be worth doing). And while Houston Neal gives 7 examples of such mesh-ups, I am sure that there are more to be found – in health care and elsewhere. It is also why I think that innovation in video conferencing (a VoIP thingy) won’t come from new features but from new applications – from meshing-up video conferencing with other services for specific needs – from the current mundane web conference with added video conferencing to playing an online game in the living room between multiple families around the world.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 2nd, 2009 | Filed under Technology
I wrote my views on Modu when it launched its handset in July. Since then, I’ve had the time to continue and ponder about it, most recently during the World Innovation Summit 09 I attended here in Israel. One of the keynotes was given by Dov Moran – Founder, Chairman and CEO of modu – who provided his views on the future innovation in the mobile arena in general, as well as the innovation by modu. Basically, Modu’s innovation according
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 21st, 2009 | Filed under Clients
[back from ITEXPO, Anatoli Levine writes about his observations from the show.] After writing last week about my expectations going to ITEXPO in Los Angeles, let me report back on what I think took place (yep, all subjective feedback). All in all, the event was well organized, as expected – TMC knows how to run a show. It was also well attended, considering the on-going (almost-ending?) recession. And the technical content was solid, with moving and exciting keynotes (especially the
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By guest | September 10th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Video conferencing has been around for a long time – I should know, working at RADVISION for over a decade. It had been fun times, with lots of development and features being added. Then came HD – be it HD video or voice, increasing the quality (and experience) of a call dramatically. And then what? The hard truth is that for the last couple of years there is no real innovation in the video conferencing industry. Yeah, we talk about moving from 720p to 1080p, moving from 30 frames per second to 60 frames per second, adding another camera, adding more screens. But really – who cares? We’re marketing and selling the same solution we did years ago. It’s a bit faster, maybe a bit better, but that’s all. The margins companies make on video conferencing endpoints are diminishing yearly. The way to keep the pricing today Is to increase the video resolution. But there’s just so much you can charge for more resolution – we’ve already reached the point where it makes no sense to invest further. The open question to our industry is: what’s next? What will be the next innovation that will drive our niche and maybe, just maybe, bring it to the critical mass I’ve been told exist just around the corner.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 7th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
