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- Can health care make voice interfaces viable?
- One of the big surprises in my career, watching technology develop, has been the failure of voice interfaces. (Image from Paramount.) Chalk it up to accents and the complexity of English. Listen to a Southerner or a Scotsman and the problem becomes obvious. Better yet try listening...
- Tags: Medicine, Voice, Health Care, Clinician, Professional Development, Vertical Industries, Career, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Remote Medicine ready for prime time?
- The flip answer is yes. Didn't you see House after the Super Bowl? Since I last wrote about this a week ago, there has been a flood of new publicity in this area. Much of the push is fueled by Cisco, which has a...
- Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., Medicine, Problem, Diagnosis, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- MRSA still vulnerable to soap
- In all the growing excitement over MRSA, the "deadly," "flesh-eating" bacteria which the media is turning into another "gay plague," one very important point is being almost systematically ignored. It's still vulnerable to soap. Simple lye-based soap. Wash your hands and, if you've been using the rest...
- Tags: Medicine, Grandmother, Sales Tools, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!
- Pardon me while I bang my head on my desk Less than 3 weeks ago I wrote about a simple storage device that saved 1500+ lives and over $175,000,000 in just a couple of hundred hospitals out of 3700 nationwide. Now the Feds have ordered...
- Tags: Checklist, Medicine, Patient, Procedure, Best Practice, OHRP, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- SNS Top Ten Predictions for 2008
- Forecaster Mark Anderson of the Strategic News Service (SNS) has published his top ten predictions for next year. As a context for his predictions, Mark noted that IT spending outside the U.S. will help bolster companies with the U.S. economic growth slowing: "Most large IT corporations now make more...
- Tags: U.S., Web, Medicine, Patient, HMO, One-to-One Education, Social Networking, Healthcare, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Crazy CopyCat Recipes (zip)
- The Crazy Copycat Recipes Program, Over 640 copycat recipes from Americas favorite restaurants. Not only can you make all your favorites in your own kitchen, but you can also help my son out with with a few dollars for medicine and travel expenses for his Kidney Transplant. Version 200X features...
- Tags: Medicine, Kitchen
- Software downloads 2007-10-19
- Why sports Medicine is the game to play
- Despite the scandals, both financial and ethical, which have swirled around sports medicine over the last several years, there remains little doubt that this is the place to play if you really want to make big bucks in health care. The reason for that is in one...
- Tags: Game, Medicine, Payment, Patient, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Today's Debate: Who should control the medical record database?
- Most databases are controlled by their owners. Medicine is currently in a non-stop arms race among HMOs, insurers, and hospitals, with each hoping to control medical decisions through their control of medical record databases. Even pharmacists are in on it. But who should control...
- Tags: Medicine, Database, Patient, Health Care, Medical Record, Medical Records Database, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Pillole.org_newsregion (org_newsregion)
- Pillole.org_newsregion is a reader that provides Italian news of regional relevance related to health and medicine, targeted to professional caregivers and physicians.
- Tags: Medicine, Physician, Relevance, Pillole.org_newsregion, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2007-04-27
- Medical Icon Set (zip)
- The Medical Icon Set is a comprehensive set of icons that covers most of the possible medicine-related application's needs. All icons in the Medical Icon Set have been handcrafted pixel by pixel by professional artists. Their look and superb quality will enable developers to attach a professional feel to their...
- Tags: Medicine, Pixel, Medical Icon Set
- Software downloads 2007-04-03
- Hyperhealth Pro (exe)
- Based on published scientific research Hyperhealth is an encyclopedia of nutrition and natural health and has emerged as the definitive guide for natural medicine. Now in its 10th version Hyperhealth contains 5195 topics and 47,000 references equaling a book of 32,000 pages. Containing the most credible and trusted content anywhere,...
- Tags: Medicine, Health Care, Hyperhealth, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2007-01-23
- Face on Earth, why it's interesting
- People find strange things on the satellite views for Google Maps and Earth, but a discovery posted on Digg caught my attention. The huge first nations face found near Medicine Hat Alberta is quite the coincidence considering "Medicine Hat" comes from aboriginal roots. With many relatives from this area, the...
- Tags: Medicine, Medicine Hat
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Medicinal Herbs (zip)
- Medicinal Herbs is an electronic herb book on alternative medicine containing herbs used in herbal remedy that have been proved to cure diseases and also help in healthy living. Version 2.1 adds more medicinal herbal listings and searches the online database.
- Tags: Medicine, Remedy, Disease, Medicinal Herbs, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2006-09-27
- Medicine Buddha Screen Saver (zip)
- The Medicine Buddha amidst a galaxy of blue stars. This screen saver contains the Gate Gate Parasamgate chant of the Heart Sutra, and will strike the bell every 15 minutes to remind us of the Vow to save all Sentient Beings.
- Tags: Medicine, Bell
- Software downloads 2006-02-03
- Herbal Medicine (exe)
- Herbal medicine can enhance immune system functioning, improve endurance and memory, overcome fatigue, stress, nervous anxiety and mental confusion, boost libido and add sparkle to sex life, relieve insomnia, slow down the development of caducity and solve skin problems. Herbal Medicine provides you with accurate, science-based information on the health...
- Tags: Medicine, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2005-06-17
Additional Resources
- Health care debate is a neverending story
- The longer I cover the health care beat, the more I realize it's the one market where no one is happy. This should not surprise. Supply is naturally limited, demand virtually unlimited. There seems no way to balance the two. Julie...
- Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Always-on boosted by British government study
- Five years ago, on a Corante blog, I began touting something I called the World of Always-On. (Picture from Ofcom.) Sometimes I was made to feel crazy, but I remained convinced that sensors and motes, linked to WiFi networks, could create applications living in the air for...
- Tags: Government, Sensor, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Statin era over?
- The era of statins, drugs like Zocor and Lipitor which lower cholesterol levels, may be ending. The FDA's decisions over the last week to reject Merck's Cordaptive and Isis' Mipomersen, coupled with a demand that the makers prove the drugs improve heart outcomes, looks like a turning...
- Tags: Gram, Blood Pressure, Merck & Co. Inc., Lipitor, Healthcare, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Nanny state resentment is universal
- Nanny state resentment is universalLeave me to my obesitybut you'd better help me with a free crane when I need to get to my fat sucking operation.Yup, me-me-me'ism does have its downside. LOL.BMIYes, by all means let's cut benefits for those who have let themselves go to seed by overeating...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Nanny state resentment, BMI
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- How dangerous is computing to your health?
- How dangerous is computing to your health?...Eat healthy, exercise often, and take time off to disconnect. Simple rules to live by! ]:)Back problemsSeveral years ago I felt like there was a knife in my back. It kept getting worse so I visited a chiropractor. As soon as I told him...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, computer, computing, health care, Preventive Medicine
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
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