Windows Phone Thoughts: US Army Medics Equipped with Pocket PCs!

"Pointsec will provide endpoint security technology for the U.S. Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) as part of a large deployment of Windows Mobile Pocket PC in the field around the world. The MC4 will work with IT products and services provider Insight Public Sector to deploy over 11,000 HP branded Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC handheld devices with Pointsec for Pocket PC encryption technology to its medical staff. These devices will be used by Army medical professionals all over the world, especially in the combat situations in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Not only does this article talk about a very large and interesting PPC roll-out, it also grabs my quote of the day with the line "unreliable paper-based systems"! Among other interesting items in this article, it reports that Pointsec's security and encryption software that works on the fly will have provide no performance decrease to the PPC. As Army technologies usually predict what will continue or grow in the private sector in the future, the day that your chart at the hospital is in the form of a PPC screen might not be too far away!