MacBook Pro’s new Touch Bar, a touch-screen strip at the top of the keyboard that changes to display functions specific to the app being used, is more than a texting tool with emojis but rather how millennials will redefine enterprise software and workflow.
Custom developed Touch Bar functions will change enterprise software experience.
For healthcare:
- Physicians placing a discharge order with a function key that displays automatically when certain conditions (in the Electronic Medical Record) are met
- Lab staff using a function key to notify physicians and nurses for critical lab results
This is not to say Apple’s Touch Bar (or others that will develop similar functions) is anything radical. This is more about the beginning of intelligent “clustering of actions” into smart functions. These
Intelligent Action Clusters© will replace simple functions like “Ctrl+C”, “Alt+Tab” to complex workflow functions.
Edgility's Cognitive Healthcare platform has plans for “Touch Bar” and the broader
Intelligent Action Clusters©.
