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Customized Project Management and Security Training Advances IT Staff for Government Healthcare Provider

Government Healthcare Provider GHP offers a range of healthcare services for America's military veterans, including health care facilities, disability compensation, pensions, and burial services at government-owned cemeteries. In 2000, the educational project manager was faced with several challenges stemming from the rollout of Windows 2000. First, his IT management needed...

Tags: Benefits, Enterprise Software, Global Knowledge, Government Healthcare Provider, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Operating Systems, Project Management, Security, Software, Training, Vertical Industries

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The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Carper option in final Senate health bill

opt outdoes that mean a state can decide, whether or not, their citizens can get national health care?"Let the trolling begin in earnest."?I think you meant:"[i]Let those who disagree with me begin posting.[/i]"No......trolling is posting deliberately inflammatory remarks in order to get responses. You've even admitted you're doing that, because...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Financial Planning, U.S. Senate, health care, insurance, Carper, Lasik

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?

Well, if I am a light user, I DO NOT want to pay for the hogs that drive upcosts for the carriers. I want a dirt cheap plan, that will immediately throttle me if I start hogging, or, possibly give me the option to pay more if I want to...

Tags: Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Network technology, Apple iPhone, mobile broadband, AT&T Corp., broadband, mobile, UNLIMITED

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Democrats lack votes for health care reform

It's amazingWhen Republicans are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. When Democrats are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. Who's running that show anyway?Carl RapsonRepublicansRepublicans will continue to run Washington until the assumptions underlying their rule change. This is good news.We dont need to overhaul a system that...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nope, Obama, insurance, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

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

Condemning what the market does worse

Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?

Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Health reform must focus on incentives to cut costs

Health reform must focus on incentives to cut costsChanging who pays for health careis precisely what is needed to cut costs. The only problem is, who pays for health care needs to be you, and not someone else. As long as we simply shift who the "someone else" is, the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Financial Planning, Right Now IT, health care, insurance, cut cost, incentive

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

What Obama can do for and to open source

What Obama can do for and to open sourceSorry we let you down.It doesn't surprise me though. We are very focused on our agendas. The Obama Administration presents a large field of issues. The only thing I can say so far is that his choice to fill...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Obama, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

GPL's cloudy future

GPL's cloudy futureIn the Cloud: ANYBODY can do ITANYBODY. I believe that is the essence of the Cloud revolution.Users old enough remember the IBM PC. It was a revolution. A maneuver around traditional IT which gave rise to a new generation of software and hardware development without...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Configuration Files, GPL, AGPL, Google Inc., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Proprietary advantage the argument against health IT?

Proprietary advantage the argument against health IT?Health Care = Big BusinessThose of us who live in the developed world outside the US and have nationalized health care systems (Canada, Europe, Japan, etc.) are always astounded at how much Americans pay for health care. My father just had two major surgeries...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, health-IT

Discussion threads 2009-03-20

Canada not the solution either

Canada not the solution eitherA donkey is a horse designed by a committee ...I work in healthcare reimbursement in the U.S. The bottom line is that any multi-payor system will have all sorts of problems. Payors spend huge amounts of time and money trying to avoid their obligations and...

Tags: Research & Development, Government, Vertical industries, donkey, Fraser Institute, Harper, payor

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

Health Care IT a promise too far?

Health Care IT a promise too far?It has began!!!!!All you have to do is take a look at the recent merger between Allscripts Healthcare and Misys Healthcare into the new AllscriptsMisys. Nationwide, more than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare providers in clinics, post-acute care facilities,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, HIPAA, Insurance, health care, Allscripts Healthcare

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It's a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...

Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

IT Provider Enhances Security and Meets Customer Needs With New Operating System

Cerner Corporation creates healthcare IT solutions for hospitals, physician offices, employers, and government organizations. The company is responsible for sensitive data and required an operating system that would help it enhance security. It began upgrading to the Windows Vista operating system. Now, Cerner enjoys better use of its IT resources,...

Tags: Cerner Corp., Security, Physician, Information Technology, Operating System, Strategy, Operating Systems, Management, Software

Case studies 2008-07-10

Alabama's Broadband Tide

BROADBAND INITIATIVE â€" If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you’ll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called “Redneck Riviera,” at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. â€" No more...

Tags: Initiative, Broadband, Alabama, DirecWay, RV, Johnson, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, TVs, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Managed Care Provider Hits "Five Nines" Uptime With HP Virtualization Solution

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Tampa, FL, WellCare Health Plans, Inc. is a provider of managed care services dedicated to government-sponsored healthcare programs. WellCare wanted to provide a robust Adaptive Infrastructure through server consolidation and virtualization. WellCare conducted environmental analysis of three data centers, reclaimed or recycled older servers,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Uptime, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware, Storage

Case studies 2008-06-01

The insurers bid to fix health care

The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Socialized Medicine, insurance company, tort, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-05-30