Empire Software

Empire Software is a manufacturer and retailer of Tablet PC based electronic medical records (EMR) software programmes. Its Nucleus product is an example of software running on Tablet PCs intended to cater for hospitals, clinics, and private physician practices.

The Nucleus software is installed on site, and the company claims that it is suitable for any size of organization. Modular in design, it medical best practice was taken into account by its creators. Handwriting recognition software features in Nucleus , and the company asserts compatibility with common Microsoft applications.

A drawback of Nucleus is that it is a proprietary single platform application written solely for the Tablet PC. This reduces flexibility in both hardware platform and operating system deployment, meaning that each user must have the Tablet PC Operating system with its requirement for dedicated hardware.

Also see Software, Tablet PCs, medical technology

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# Mark A. Richman (President & CEO Empire Software, Inc.) [http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspxPostID=4690 Re: What would you ask the Tablet PC team ], 2004-04-22; Richman states that we designed Nucleus from the ground up to run exclusively on the Tablet PC .