"Dude, you're going to Dell."

Imagine yourself, hurt and in desperate need of medical attention.  As the ambulance arrives to the scene of your accident, you notice a familiar symbol littering the electrical medical equipment used by the EMTs.

Then you ask yourself...but doesn't Dell make computers?

Dell Inc. recently acquired Perot Systems Corp, breaking out from the computer-manufacture industry into the health-care industry.

Perot Systems is another econo-child of former U.S. Presidential Candidate H. Ross Perot. However, Perot Systems does not make most medical equipment used in the medical field, but does offers hardware and software solutions to health-care professionals.

Some of Perot's clients are: the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, along with hospitals, private-practice physicians, and insurance companies.

Despite the sheer divide between computer production and health-care, Dell plans to offer highly technological services to the ailing medical profession.  Such services will include, electronic health records, system integration, and application development.

Since many hospitals across the United States have begun to phase out paper, Dell has placed itself into a profitable position after a year of slumped sales.  With this latest merger, we can expect the Texas-based computer giant to provide the same volume of service through Perot Systems as we've seen through their computer sales.

With a hand in all computing needs, Dell now has the in-house potential to offer customers, whether consumers or industries, the computers (or servers), software, and services required for their health.