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- Balearic Islands Health Service (IB Salut) Unifies and Centralizes Administration of Identity Management
- Balearic Islands Health Service wanted to simplify the authentication of users registered in various information systems and reduce the number of user credentials needed to access computer applications to five. The challenge was to unify and centralize user management to facilitate movement of patients between hospitals and health centers and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Health Service, Administration, Health Care, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Carena creates corporate concierge health service
- Here's another way to healthier employees. You give them a phone number. They call when someone in the house is sick. A nurse can walk a patient through first aid, make sure they get to an emergency room, or have a doctor come visit. ...
- Tags: Patient, Health Service, Doctor, Health Care, Carena, Mike Viles, Wiles, Patient Interaction, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Health Services Center Treats Staff to New Remote Access, Boosts User Productivity
- Montgomery County Memorial Hospital MCMH commits itself to providing high-quality health services to many communities throughout Southwest Iowa. The lack of a reliable remote access solution from any location or browser prevented staff from getting critical work done when outside the facility. This created technical support challenges for the IT...
- Tags: Health Service, Health Care, Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, Remote Access, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2008-05-12
- Electronic Information Enhances Patient Care for Health Service
- Delivery of care by multi-disciplinary teams within the National Health Service NHS suffers from fragmented information and workflows. This can lead to duplication of patient records, unnecessary hospital stays, and a large volume of unplanned admissions. Working with partner D2i Solutions, Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust PCT is...
- Tags: Patient, Health Service, Health Care
- Case studies 2008-02-06
- Nortel Networks Case Study: NHS Direct
- NHS Direct is England's 24-hour health service telephone line. NHS Direct wanted to improve the service they were offering, while achieving the cost savings that centralisation should bring. They recognised that the only way they could create the desired consistency and efficiencies was through virtualisation - joining up all call...
- Tags: Health Service, Nortel Networks Corp., NHS Direct, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
- Case studies 2007-02-07
- Police maintain uneasy relations with cybervigilantes
- Police maintain uneasy relations with cybervigilantesSounds like what police told us!Our neighborhood has had a sudden rash of burglaries and home invasions, apparently from gangs coming from out of town. The police told us they can't afford to increase surveillance and can't improve response time when they are called....
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Strategy, knowledge, health service
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- National Health Service Improves Patient Care for 59 Million Citizens
- The National Health Service NHS provides healthcare for 59.6 million citizens of the United Kingdom. Recent initiatives have mandated improvements in the way citizens access healthcare and other government services. As a result, NHS anticipates that greater numbers of patients and healthcare providers will need to access information using the...
- Tags: Patient, Performance, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Health Service, National Health Service, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Making the giant health database work for you
- It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work as well as paper. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Health Database, Vertical Industries, Storage, Benefits, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Human Resources, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Digital-rights Management, Server, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Google PPOB? What is it?
- When you are looking for things that Google is about to do, the best place to keep your eye on is Google's robots.txt file -- a document they keep updated with a list of websites they don't want search engines to index. A week ago, they added "/search2001" which...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Web Site Development, Search, Web Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures
- Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...
- Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Amazon cuts S3 pricing; Dangles carrot in front of enterprises
- Amazon said Thursday that it will cut prices on its Simple Storage Service (S3) and offer more volume discounts. The pricing, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, may reflect that Amazon is looking to grab share as competition from Microsoft and others is about to heat...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Desktone "Desktops as a Service"
- I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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