1. Contra Costa County Health Services, California1 Supporting Tablet PC in CCAIR, An Immunization Registry Contra Costa County Health Services Siu Wing Tong, Ph.D. Information Systems Division

2. Contra Costa County Health Services, California2 Why Tablet PC Mobile Regular keyboard and mouse – May not be available – May not be desirable Alternative methods of data entry – Pen – Voice

3. Contra Costa County Health Services, California3 About Tablet PCs What kinds of Tablets – Slates – Convertibles Advantages and Disadvantages of each – Weight – Versatility – Docking and Sync – Battery life

4. Contra Costa County Health Services, California4 Development Methodology Microsoft Dot-NET development tools Reasons – Dot-NET in our regular, new version after program source code turnover to CA DHS in 2001 – Easy to write apps to run on mobile devices – Write once, run many

5. Contra Costa County Health Services, California5 Development Methodology, Cont’d Reasons, Cont’d – Server side controls – Simulators, good for development and debugging

6. Contra Costa County Health Services, California6 Development Experience Two cases – Rewrite only portions of the entire set of screens of the original application – Develop new prototype

7. Contra Costa County Health Services, California7 Development Experience, Cont’d Develop a brand new application specifically for tablet PCs – Cannot take regular bulky app to run on smaller form factors – Sacrifice many program functions in order to fit – Can still keep most essential data items

8. Contra Costa County Health Services, California8 Development Experience, Cont’d – Can make the screens in Tablet slightly bigger than those of other mobile devices, such as PDA, in order to take advantage of the slightly bigger form factor of notebook sized PCs

9. Contra Costa County Health Services, California9 Practical Use Targeted for providers walking around – Such as those in hospitals and clinics Mobile vans may choose regular laptops with cellular connections in addition to Tablet PCs

10. Contra Costa County Health Services, California10 Voice versus Pen Both voice and pen input mechanisms are built into Tablet PCs Accuracy Environmental factors Personal preferences

11. Contra Costa County Health Services, California11 Visit our Demo Booth Live demo WiFi

12. Contra Costa County Health Services, California12 Contributors Ates Temeltas Bhumil Shah Siu Wing Tong

13. Contra Costa County Health Services, California13 Contact Us Siu Wing Tong, Ph.D. Information Technology Supervisor Contra Costa County Health Services 595 Center Ave, Suite 200 Martinez, CA 94553 swtong@hsd.co.contra-costa.ca.us