Art,
<<One of the strategies for making removable flash cards less seasonable is to create a demand that is different from consumer demand.>>
Speaking of which, I guess Sandisk was holding this card up their sleeve to take some of the sting out their report:
siliconinvestor.com
World's First Medical Trials of SanDisk's Wearable P-Tag Electronic Information Card Start This Month Over 5,000 Patients
Expected To Wear SanDisk P-Tags During The Three Month Trial Involving Three Texas Hospitals And 34 Health Maintenance
Organizations
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr 19, 2001 (BW HealthWire) -- SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK chart, msgs) announced today the world's first
commercial medical trials of its P-Tag (Personal Tag) flash memory card, the industry's first wearable storage device for the health care
market. The three-month trials, slated to start this month in the Dallas area, are expected to enroll more than 5,000 patients -- each of whom
will have their complete medical records on the small, durable 8 megabyte (MB) P-Tags.
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