UNICEF updating Uganda’s Digital Kiosk computing platform Gizmag In a collaboration that began in 2012, UNICEF partnered with Norway’s Design Without Borders on the overall design of the next generation kiosks, with the aim of scaling the system…

Source: www.gizmag.com

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance says it is the first in the country to implement patient services tablet technology.

Source: www.star-telegram.com

Besides being able to adjust the room temperature, patients can use the tablets to call for a nurse, check medical files for lab results and appointment dates, browse the Internet, read health articles and log into apps such as Skype and Netflix.

“I’ve ordered my food. I’ve had fights with my husband about the temperature,” Adkins said, laughing. Kaden’s big sister, Kaylee, has also enjoyed using the hospital’s tablet technology. “With my 3-year-old, we were able to play Frozen and stop it and rewind it to her favorite songs.

Branding – The Power of Visual Branding presentation by Eric Balinski. 

Source: selfserviceindustry.com

Key Points

• Brand images has instant meaning and cuts through a world of clutter
• The convergence of the physical environment with online and mobile is creating new arenas to engage and create customer experiences.
• Presence in the physical world is critical to the brand visibility, credibility, and reinforcing the customer’s experience with the brand.
• Physical environment are critical to building the brand and its value proposition, in addition to generating the customer relationship and sales.
• The physical environments provide information, human energy and touch points, which cannot be easily duplicated in the mobile or on-line worlds.

UC San Diego Health System is partnering with SeePoint, designer and manufacturer of interactive kiosk systems, to overhaul its check-in and vendor management system, according to a press release.

Source: www.kioskmarketplace.com

Vendor check-in units at healthcare are a market all to itself.  Also see story on HID badges being “cracked” a few days ago.

Stanford Cancer Institute has teamed up with SeePoint Technology to come up with a solution that would increase awareness and enrollment in clinical trials.

Source: www.kioskmarketplace.com

Seepoint kiosks in the news with pivoting 22″ display.  Seepoint also uses antimicrobial coatings.

EMV is getting real in the US as consumers are now getting chip cards in the mail. But if it’s going to take many years before all merchants are able to accept

Source: www.pymnts.com

Gemalto — “What I can say is there is a higher amount of activities from financial institutions in launching their EMV portfolios. The amount of activity in the first half this year is substantial, and the marketplace will easily have over 100 million EMV cards delivered to customers before the end of 2014. And that can easily be 2 or 3 times that by the time of the liability shift. “