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Community Hospital Expands IT Management Capabilities With Dell Software Inventory & Usage Management Service

South Nassau Communities Hospital SNCH in Oceanside, NY, is growing at a rapid pace. SNCH wanted IT Asset Management Solution to generate accurate software inventory reports for a Microsoft audit. As a solution it deployed Dell Software Inventory & Usage Management. This resulted in rapid deployment, predictable monthly costs and...

Tags: Software, Dell Computer Corp., IT Administration, Information Technology, Community Hospital, Tools & Techniques, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2008-10-01

Community Hospital's IT Productivity 50% More Efficient With Healthier Technology

Myrtue Medical Center was looking for a solution that was both effective and efficient. The hospital had a large number of computers and servers on their network, and a limited staff. Given the critical nature of their business, the organization needs to be "Up and running" one hundred percent of...

Tags: Hospital, Information Technology, Server, Community Hospital, Healthcare

Case studies 2008-03-06

Additional Resources

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

How fast can remote monitoring move?

Ler's use mu computer and my iPhoneMay sound nuts, but my notebook mine happens to be a Mac and my iPhone have the ability to work with a lot of medical devices - IF the makers build the connectors and write the software.I can enter my blood sugars on an...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Smart phones, Doc, monitoring, patient, computer, EKG, phone, Apple iPhone, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

The fight for medical cost transparency is coming online

Unfortunately the "industry" will manipulate the data to their advantage.Universities cannot force "honest" disclosure of true rates like the government can. I can see another indictment and or law suite for manipulation in a year or two.The colleges work for the governmentIt's semi-privatized, which conservatives will like, but it's...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Government, Benefits, health care, transparency

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

'How I tweeted my way out of spinal surgery'

Surprise, surpriseObama says that doctors provide unnecessary surgeries to boost their bottom line, and lo and behold, we suddenly get stories of people being coerced into unnecessary procedures.And, of course, we all know that anyone who tweets anything is telling us the absolute gospel truth.And, of course, if this woman...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Obama, hospital, health care, surgeon

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Why health care is not in the Constitution

Neither are food, clothing, and shelterThey're nowhere to be found in the constitution, yet are more important than healthcare. Without those 3 things you'll die real fast so you won't need healthcare. Those needs DID exist when the Constitution was written. There is no federal law making any...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, health care, Constitution

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Paediatric Handbook 12.0.2 (Mobile)

powered by Skyscape Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Paediatric Handbook is a highly popular, succinct guide to managing common and serious disorders in childhood. It is used far beyond the hospital by medical, nursing, and allied health professionals caring for children. It emphasizes the community-based approach to the management of children''s problems along...

Tags: Mobile, Insulin, Health Care, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Paediatric Handbook (Mobile)

powered by Skyscape Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Paediatric Handbook is a highly popular, succinct guide to managing common and serious disorders in childhood. It is used far beyond the hospital by medical, nursing, and allied health professionals caring for children. It emphasizes the community-based approach to the management of children''s problems along...

Tags: Mobile, Insulin, Health Care, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Requirements for Radio Frequency Identification in Healthcare

Radio Frequency Identification RFID is a growing technology among different industries. As a technology, it has been used since the Second World War, but just in the last decade, the Information Technology IT community and healthcare have been taking more action on studying and developing the technology. This paper represents...

Tags: Radio, Health Care, AIMC, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-19

Patient HandChart (Mobile)

The Patient Palm Chart is an electronic medical record for patient data management and assessment. Although this application can be utilized for any type ofpatient management system, the program provides all the necessary tools a Senior Care Practitioner requires to manage the geriatric patient. This program was designed to be...

Tags: Patient, History, Mobile, Patient Palm Chart

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Pocket Psychiatry (Mobile)

If you are a psychiatrist or other prescriber, this comprehensive collection of 11 databases will let you accomplish the following tasks quickly, easily, and without errors:Enter/edit demographic, diagnostic, and billing information for each patient Document all patient encounters in detail, including medication-related information Document a complete psychiatric evaluation using specially...

Tags: Patient, Mobile

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Apple's secret society

Apple's secret societyI think people......have the right to know if he was bumped ahead on a waiting list just because he has money or if he legitimately waited his turn.They do not give livers, or other healthy organsto a person who has one removed due to cancer, so chances are...

Tags: Benefits, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., secret society

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Sorry, the Help Desk Doesn't Cover That.

Dion Hinchcliffe has another good post up, this time on Cloud vs open source: there's a third dimension I'd like to expand on, and that's user support. After all the strategic planning is done, the plumbing hooked up and sawdust swept up, the...

Tags: Environment, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dion, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus far

Social media has taken the marketing world by storm. Major agencies and internal divisions are hosting think tank sessions to try and come up with witty ideas to market their products and drive customer loyalty. Some of the ideas they come up with  are great. But others, let's face it,...

Tags: Pizza Hut, Brand, Stunt, Social Media, Twitter, Motrin, Nannerpuss, Jack, Skittles Home Page, Ashton Kutcher, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Conficker infected critical hospital equipment

Conficker infected critical hospital equipmentAnd still there are people pushing windows to areas other than gamingWindoze is good for gaming, that's all.Something as serious as hospital equipment needs a secure, reliable OS. One that has a UNIX basis.Laser Hair Removal - Windows based.Don't ask how I know...Awesome MS Software! ;)It...

Tags: Linux, HEALTHCARE, Operating systems, UNIX, SECURITY, Most IT department, hospital equipment, hospital, Conficker-infected, IT Skills

Discussion threads 2009-04-24

News to know: Sun-IBM; Cloudforce; Windows 7 downgrade; AP's crackdown

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Associated Press, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computing

Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computingNot Sure!Not Sure if ICELAND can be a hub for global cloud computing.I am worried about the initiatives the Govt of Iceland will be willing to take in the given economical crisis. And moreover ICELAND is one of the worst hit...

Tags: Iceland, pollution, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-03-29

Vendor claims ZDNet being "exploited" to send spam, forgets definition of exploit; Update: we were sending spam

Update: this post is factually incorrect.  ZDNet was sending out spam. A security vendor has claimed that ZDNet is being "exploited" by Google Docs in order to send spam. Let's pick apart this exploitation claim and try to figure out what the spammers are really doing....

Tags: Google Docs, Exploitation, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-01-19

Community Medical Centers: On-Premise Implementation for HIPAA Compliance

Community Medical Centers is the central California's largest health care provider. Operating three acute-care hospitals, outpatient and ambulatory care facilities, rural clinics, and the largest Emergency Department in the state, the Center employs a staff of 6,200 and 1,100 physicians, and is the most comprehensive hospital system in the Valley...

Tags: DataMotion, Compliance, HIPAA Compliance, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Case studies 2008-12-20