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SOA's strong medicine

ZDnet's Dan Farber recently sat down with Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka, to talk about his technology-driven healthcare organization. (See post here, which will lead you to a video). Dr. Halamka is also engaged in building a very significant service-oriented architecture at Harvard Medical and its hospital affiliates, as...

Tags: Web service, SOA, Harvard Medical School, John Halamka, Web

Blog posts 2005-04-13

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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

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

Major Hospital Enhances Auditing Infrastructure Using SQL Server 2008

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BIDMC, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is the largest member of CareGroup Healthcare System. BIDMC needed a better auditing solution to help ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA. BIDMC is upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise database...

Tags: Hospital, Microsoft SQL Server, Auditing, BIDMC, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Case studies 2009-03-17

Disrupting rush to the medical home model

This year's hot economist is Dr. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School, and just in time for our health reform debate he has a book out on the health care market. (Amazon has it for 33% off.) Christensen is famous for his idea of "disruptive innovation," describing...

Tags: Health Care, Clayton Christensen, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton

Author, Producer and Director Michael Crichton, 1942-2008. Photo: Associated Press With election week and coverage of other events such as the Microsoft PDC and the latest Windows 7 builds, many of ZDNet's readers may be unaware that one of America's most...

Tags: America, Fiction, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Caribbean medical schools and the primary care shortage

Caribbean medical schools and the primary care shortageIs a Carribean-trained MD good enough?He is if he passes the boards and does the same internship and residency as anyone else (except I'd waive the internship and residency if the applicant has actively practiced medicine abroad for at least 5 years). ...

Tags: Corporate governance, Caribbean medical school, medical school, primary care shortage, care shortage, residency training

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?

Is Brown going to replace Harvard as America's premier medical school campus? Will Harvard and MIT faculty start fighting for visiting privileges there, in order to skirt the law and get more coffee mugs? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: business operations, corporate insurance, dana blankenhorn, finance, financial planning, insurance, management, massachusetts, strategy

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Are hospitals really safe?

Are hospitals really safe?More on the Medical Device Interoperability Program MD PnPDear Mr. Piquepaille, Thank you for referencing our work.The Technology Review story may have left the impression that I'm not very optimistic about the adoption of medical device interoperability. However, the story didn't have enough room to convey that...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, medical device, hospital

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

HMS Memory Disorders & Medications Low Res (Mobile)

Know everything from Memory Disorders to Medications! HMS Memory Disorders & Medications is now on your mobiles; adapted from Harvard Medical School Guide from a leading expert Dr. Aaron P. Nelson. Medication adherence is a substantial problem in the elderly. It may be even more important among elderly persons with...

Tags: Mobile, Memory, Health Care, Adherence, HMS Memory Disorders & Medications, Medication Adherence, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Flash Memory, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-19

HMS Memory Disorders & Medications Hi Res (Mobile)

Know everything from Memory Disorders to Medications! HMS Memory Disorders & Medications is now on your mobiles; adapted from Harvard Medical School Guide from a leading expert Dr. Aaron P. Nelson. Medication adherence is a substantial problem in the elderly. It may be even more important among elderly persons with...

Tags: Mobile, Memory, Health Care, Adherence, HMS Memory Disorders & Medications, Medication Adherence, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Flash Memory, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-19

HMS Memory Disorders & Medications (Mobile)

Know everything from Memory Disorders to Medications! HMS Memory Disorders & Medications is now on your mobiles; adapted from Harvard Medical School Guide from a leading expert Dr. Aaron P. Nelson. Medication adherence is a substantial problem in the elderly. It may be even more important among elderly persons with...

Tags: Mobile, Memory, Health Care, Adherence, HMS Memory Disorders & Medications, Medication Adherence, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Flash Memory, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-19

Got room in your heart for a hacker?

I was looking over famed security researcher and cryptography expert Bruce Schneier's blog today and found an article on hacking medical devices.  I have to admit that I was surprised, but I shouldn't have been.  These days, if you can build it, we can break it seems to be the...

Tags: Device, Researcher, Article, Hacker, Schneier, Hacking, Security, Digital Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Have a heart (attack): Defibrillators, pacemakers vulnerable to hackers

Researchers have discovered that an implantable heart device, a combination of a defibrillator and pacemaker, is vulnerable to hackers. According to a study, authored by researchers at the University of Washington, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard Medical School, hackers could get wireless access to a heart...

Tags: Software, Patient, Researcher, Radio, Privacy, Hacker, Attack, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, Implantable Medical Device, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-12

A new strategy to fight HIV and AIDS

An international team of researchers has developed a novel strategy against HIV. They added two genes to immune cells which 'transformed them into potent weapons that destroy cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.' This idea of 'genetically engineering immune cells to redirect their infection-fighting ability toward killing...

Tags: Strategy, Researcher, Cell, HIV, HIV-infected, CTL, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Take your tech recession and stuff it

Take your tech recession and stuff itBetter Solution to "H-1b Problem"Currently most H-1b workers are DOL level-one entry level and most of those earn well below $50k salary. In virtually no case are employers required to first recruit and consider qualified American applicants - new grads etc.SOLUTION: Reform H-1b to...

Tags: Workforce management, Seagate Technology LLC, H-1B, talent

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Healthcare Group Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 to Better Protect 2 Terabytes of Data

Based in Boston, CareGroup is the corporate parent of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and three other area hospitals. CareGroup hosts its data on 390 databases on 30 instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The organization is updating databases to SQL Server 2008...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., CareGroup, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-01-01

The importance of gene targeting and persistence

This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the discovery of "gene targeting," which is now a vital technique not just in isolating diseases to specific genomes but in producing study subjects. The study subjects in this case are mice, which can now be produced with any...

Tags: Genome, Mouse, Scientist, Gene, Biotechnology, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-09

CIO Sessions: 1-800 Flowers blossoms with new technologies

In a CIO Vision Series interview, Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers talks with me about what it takes to run the company’s daily IT operations, across a network of more than 9,000 florists. Today, about 75 percent of 1-800 Flowers transactions are...

Tags: CIO, Environment, 1-800-FLOWERS, Web 2.0, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-04