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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
Portal Puts Clinical Information at Healthworkers' Fingertips: The Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services DHHS wanted to make it easier for clinicians in the state's hospitals, clinics and community centres to share information that would help them deliver high quality patient care. This included state, local and specialist information as well as up-to-date professional resources. By...; Tags: Information, Clinician, Portals, Web Technology, Internet; Case studies 2007-12-01
Medical Device Manufacturer Makes Hand-Carried Ultrasound a Reality: SonoSite, Inc. is leading in the race to make medical imaging devices smaller and more portable. Its lightweight, hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound products enable clinicians to deliver safer, better, faster care, right at the patient bedside. For its latest product, SonoSite M-Turbo system, the company wanted to maintain rapid boot-up time...; Tags: Medical Imaging, SonoSite Inc., Medical Device, Texas Instruments Inc., Microsoft Corp., Clinician, Microsoft Windows, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies 2007-10-01
clinician's Calculator (zip): TakDak's Clinicians Calculator carries out routine calculations carried out in clinical practice. It includes Alveolar Arterial Gadient Calculator, BMI Calculator, Body Surface Area Calculator, Absolute Neutrophil Count Calculator, Multiple Renal Function Calculators (MDRD, Cockcroft), and some other calculators a doctor may need in clinical practice.Version 1.21 changes registration procedure.; Tags: Clinician, TakDak; Software downloads 2007-07-10
GFR Tracker (zip): The GFR Tracker calculates, stores, displays and retrieves GFR and creatinine values of your patients. The application is compatible with other TakDak products. It includes Patient Manager, Calculation of GFR and GFR adjusted for body surface area. It includes an interactive chart with embedded chronic kidney disease classification from the...; Tags: Application, Patient, Clinician, GFR Tracker; Software downloads 2006-11-14

Heparin Dose Manager (zip): Calculates all the doses of heparin for you. Features: weight based dosages of heparin based on evidence based guidelines, weight based adjustments of heparin dosages according to the aPTT values, monitoring aPTT values and easily identify heparin over dosage and under dosage. Version 1.3 adds better patient management, warning buttons...; Tags: Patient, Clinician; Software downloads 2006-08-28
Enhance Quality of Care and Clinical Decision Making in a Security-Rich Environment: IBM Workplace solutions provide the integral front-end interface that clinicians need to perform all of their day-to-day professional activities. Although tailored to the clinician's unique requirements, IBM Workplace solutions are typically based on IBM WebSphere Portal technology, which consolidates resources in a browser-based environment. Built on open standards, the Web-based...; Tags: IBM Workplace, Decision-making, Clinician, IBM Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Portals, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Groupware, Healthcare, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-06-01
Enhancing clinician Access: This webcast will address how to simplify and improve caregiver access to clinical information. In a workplace with multi-user workstations and a need for rapid access to patient information, security concerns readily take a backseat to providing patient care. New technologies can help IT professionals meet their requirements while ensuring...; Tags: Patient, Microsoft Access, Computer Associates International Inc., Clinician; Webcasts
At Carolinas Healthcare System, Wireless Connectivity Is Just What the Doctor Ordered: Carolinas HealthCare System CHS is the largest healthcare system in the Carolinas, and one of the largest publicly owned systems in the United States. The company faced the challenge of increasing clinician mobility and enhancing voice and data communications, enhancing clinician access to real-time information at the point of care...; Tags: Mobility, Cisco Systems Inc., Clinician, Carolinas HealthCare System, Wi-Fi, Wireless; Case studies
Cisco, Philips, and Emergin Collaborate on Patient Monitoring Solution That Delivers Immediate Waveform and Text Medical Alarms to clinicians: Healthcare organizations aren't challenged with workflow automation - they expect partners to integrate their systems in a manner that improves a caregiver's effectiveness and efficiency. Clinicians can now receive mobile medical alarms, such as electrocardiogram alerts on wireless Internet Protocol IP phones, to help improve the quality of patient care...; Tags: Workplace, Patient, Cisco Systems Inc., Clinician, Philips Electronics N.V.; Case studies
Microsoft Case Study: Wuesthoff Brevard Hospice: Hospice clinicians provide physical, emotional, and spiritual support to patients not expected to recover from an illness, and to their families as well. The more time they can spend in the field helping people cope with this difficult, yet special, time the more they can do to improve the quality...; Tags: Patient, Microsoft Corp., Clinician, Microsoft Windows CE, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware; Case studies
Mobile Technology Helps Hospital Accelerate and Improve Patient Treatment: Taking advantage of available technology for better patient care and greater profitability has always set El Camino Hospital apart from other healthcare facilities. Though the Silicon Valley hospital is limited in terms of physical space, it strives to be unlimited in the information available at its clinicians' fingertips. To enable...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Mobile, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Clinician, Healthcare, Tablets, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Case studies

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How about using an endoscopic webcam with Skype?: (image via Dan's Data) Phil from Skype Journal has linked to Dan Rutter's review of one of the most potentially exciting applications for using Skype I have seen in a long time. Basically, it would involve hooking up a type of digital pen camera...; Tags: Webcam, Skype Technologies S.A., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Microsoft targeting hospital IT with Azyxxi: Microsoft targeting hospital IT with Azyxxi"not limited by standards"Translation: bits check in, but they don't check out.Put another way, "all your health records are belong to us."Controlling on-seventh of the US economy should do wonders for MS' bottom line.Azyxxi: HomegrownComments taken from [url=http://www.ucsf.edu/its/listserv/emed-l/27688.html]here[/url]:[i]"...The Microsoft plan, analysts say, could be risky....; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., hospital, Azyxxi, health care, information technology; Discussion threads 2007-10-01
Microsoft targeting hospital IT with Azyxxi: The name reads like a sneeze. It's pronounced ah-zic-see, and it's Microsoft's most direct attack yet on the hospital automation market. The idea, says sales director Tom Poole, is to store all types of medical data -- registration data, lab results, pharmacy orders, all types of scans...; Tags: Hospital, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-01
A nanosensor to predict asthma attacks: Asthma is a common illness which affects at least 300 million people worldwide and which is responsible for about 200,000 deaths every year. But asthma attacks could be detected up to 3 weeks before they happen by testing regularly the breath of asthmatics. If the levels of nitric oxide increase,...; Tags: Nanotube, Handheld, Sensor, Breath, University Of Pittsburgh, Attack, Asthma, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-08-24
Virtual reality treatment for soldiers returning from Iraq: Doctors have treated post-traumatic stress syndrome with psychotherapy, but these days, doctors are treating vets returning from Iraq with virtual reality, the BBC reports. The immersive system combines realistic street scenes, sounds and odours to allow patients to relive traumatic events in a controlled environment. During the "exposure therapy,"...; Tags: Defense, Government technology, Healthcare; Blog posts 2007-02-19
Only 7% of physicians keep electronic health records: Patients' care may be adversely affected by missing information in as many as 220 mln patient visits each year, according to Journal of the American Medical Association. Clinicians estimated that the missing information was likely to adversely affect the patient's medical care and could cause delayed care or redundant services...; Tags: physician, patient; Blog posts 2005-02-03
Only 7% of physicians keep electronic health records: Patients' care may be adversely affected by missing information in as many as 220 mln patient visits each year, according to Journal of the American Medical Association. Clinicians estimated that the missing information was likely to adversely affect the patient's medical care and could cause delayed care or redundant services...; Tags: physician, patient; Blog posts 2005-02-03
Diagnostix Free Child Edition (exe): Diagnostix is a mental health clinician diagnostic reference tool, providing diverse clinical information. Access comprehensive diagnostic information and make multiple text referencing a thing of the past. Program features include: DSM-IV TR basic definitions and criteria, Code translation from the DSM-IV TR to the ICD-9 and ICD-10, treatment planning on...; Tags: Version, Diagnostix, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Office Suites; Software downloads 2004-02-24