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- Beaumont Hospitals Reduces IT Costs and Improves System Performance
- Beaumont Hospitals is a regional health provider with three community hospitals: a 1,061-bed hospital and academic center in Royal Oak, a 346-bed hospital in Troy, and a 289-bed hospital in Grosse Pointe. Beaumont Hospitals wanted to reduce IT administration costs throughout the hospital system and simplify management of more than...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Performance, Information Technology, Beaumont Hospitals, Linux, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-05-01
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- Garmin Nuvi 265WT
- The Garmin Nuvi family of portable navigation devices PNDs is growing constantly, and the GPS manufacturer has added a new line called the Nuvi 2x5 series that focuses on providing high-end features for an affordable price. The flagship model of this line is the Garmin Nuvi 265WT, and it offers...
- Tags: Keyboards, GPS, Network technology, POI database, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., Garmin Nuvi 265WT
- Product reviews 2008-10-09
- Psychiatric Records (zip)
- Psychiatric Records helps the psychiatrists keep patient records with the medications. You can have multiple records for the same patient with different dates. This can give you an overview of the changes in patient over a period of medication use. It often requires a laborious process to get this information....
- Tags: Patient, Medication, Amit Kshetarpal, Psychiatric Records, SoftPsych Psychopharmacology Software User
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consulting
- Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consultingAn Unfair ComparisonThe comparison is somewhat unfair. When the wrong patient gets an appendectomy, or the wrong blood, or instruments left inside the patient, it can be clearly established that the mistake stemmed from* Carelessness * Some best practice protocol not being followed* Lack...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, IT Consulting, blame, consulting, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consulting
- Effective today, Medicare will stop reimbursing hospitals for certain medical errors. There are important implications for IT consulting and project failures. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Consultant, Information Technology, Medicare, Consulting, Consulting Fee, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Does HIMSS hate open source?
- Does HIMSS hate open source?Our Health Care System is Broken in So Many Ways.I have no doubts that before our Health Care system is fixed if it ever will be, a million years in life will be lost. What a horrible waste. I would rather not be a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, open source, Does HIMSS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- Curing the primary care shortage
- Curing the primary care shortageBelling the catNow the trick is to persuade insurance companies to do that. Possibly you have some economic arguments you could make.Of course, they could also act to artificially inflate the supply by offering medical school scholarships to people who commit to general practice for...
- Tags: Insurance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, primary care shortage, care shortage, insurance company, compensation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- How pot may win the war against super-bacteria
- How pot may win the war against super-bacteriaWell, this would be great news for...Lays potato chips!This explains alot!!I think we finally see why Mr. Blankenhorn's writing has been of such "quality"...seems to have an affinity towards the poor, oppressed illegal users of "medical marijuana". Oh...maybe he's got a headache...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Pot
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Where WiFi succeeds
- Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- A HIX tax moves ahead in Vermont
- A HIX tax moves ahead in VermontElectronic Medical RecordsThe idea of creating Electronic Medical Records EMRs is really great.So that everything will be directly linked to a Health Information Exchange HIX.Here after we won't see any fraud at least in hospitals.==================================================shiny Vermont Alcohol Addiction Treatment
- Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, HIX tax
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- What good are gross hospital statistics?
- What good are gross hospital statistics?Patient population is significantAnd forget cheeseburgers. It's partly prior availability and use of medical care. People in some areas are more likely to be sick and more likely to have only emergency room interventions rather than ongoing care when their conditions force them...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Patient population, health care, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Will the EMR movement become a political divide
- Will the EMR movement become a political divideFYI: Its now EHR, not EMR...the change is to include dental, pyschological and other healthcare services.Electronic Health Records.We are in the middle of deployment strategy planning. The cost of deploying equipment and personell to get this up and running is staggering. ...
- Tags: Vertical industries, E-health, HEALTHCARE, Practical Reality, EMR, EMR movement, political divide, divide, government
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Garmin Nuvi 500
- There are many uses for GPS beyond in-car navigation. After all, there are times you could use some route guidance no matter what mode of transportation. Yet, you don't see too many multiuse GPS on the market, and we're beginning to see why. A while back we took a look...
- Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Nuvi 500, Garmin Ltd., GPS, car
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?Medical device development in MassachusettsSpeaking as a member of the orthopedic medical device industry, it is our hope that the regulatory process will allow input from industry to develop reasonable disclosure guidelines without stifling activities that are beneficial to Massachusetts healthcare consumers. Below is an abbreviated...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, medical device, S. 2863, medical device industry, health care, manufacturer, industry
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Can global competition bring health care quality?
- Can global competition bring health care quality?Medicine is best done up close and personal...and it's bad enough that patients in rural areas often have to go to distant cities without our sending people to foreign countries.We need a much more competitive system, but that's best done locally.Globalization has nothing to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, hospital, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Is it time for concierge emergency medicine?
- Is it time for concierge emergency medicine?No way!How would such a facility attract "the best and the brightest" medical people? Such people want to be actively involved in treating patients because they are motivated by the challenge. Just having the latest technology is nowhere near enough. Such...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, payroll solutions, emergency medicine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- If there was one solid message to come from the opening keynotes at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, it is this: Now is the time. Illustrated through the lenses of two large, mainstream industries – financial services and health care – the first two presenters talked about ways...
- Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Linux, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Microsoft External Research release five new tools to students
- I was told about these last week and was held off until now; annoyingly after Channel 8 decided to post their own video, probably to get all the credit. Sometimes I think, why do I bother do this job? (Good income, great hours, travel and trips...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tool, Collaboration Environment, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Corporate Communications, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Does this Internet make your kid look fat?
- Does this Internet make your kid look fat?Absolutly NOTThe responsibility of feeding a child and what they eat isn't the advertisers or manufacturers of products. Its the parents, if a parent wants their kid to eat nutritious low fat, low calorie foods then that is what they should buy.Who...
- Tags: Vertical industries, nutritional information, Internet-make, government, food, cereal
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
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