Because both computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems and mobile technologies such as handheld devices have the potential to greatly impact the industry's future, IT vendors, hospitals, and clinicians are simply merging them into a logical convergence--"CPOE on a handheld"--with an expectation of full functionality on all platforms: computer workstations, rolling laptops, tablet PCs, a...

Recent advances in wireless and computing technology have led to accelerated efforts to equip soldiers at the tactical level with sophisticated handheld communications devices to share situational awareness data. An important consideration is how to secure these devices, and how to ensure that the users of the devices have not been compromised. This paper presents the details of prototyping act...

grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common computational platform. mobile computing is a generic word that introduces using of movable, handheld devices with wireless communication, for processing data. mobile computing focused on providing access to data, information, services and communications anywhere an...

Pervasive computing is the technology for the future. With efficient smart spaces and the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless networking standards, there are a lot of interesting potential solutions to many of the current problems. Due to the nomadic life of users, devices that are portable and handheld are highly useful in a pervasive computing environment. But there are severe proble...