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The biggest market for the iTablet: healthcare

Software Advice's Houston Neal thinks that a Mac-based tablet computer could be the ultimate device for the healthcare industry specifically for EMR's or Electronic Medical Records. There have been a lot of rumors about an upcoming Apple "iTablet;" we think this new device would be a huge bestseller in...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Physician, Health Care, Apple Inc., Software Advice, Healthcare Industry, EMR, Tablets, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Why Outsource Healthcare IT Staffing

The healthcare industry is ultimately the most complex in needs, data demands, regulations, market size and revenue models, core functions and outsourcing niche vendors. Regardless of the fact that in recent years the complexity of healthcare IT solutions has significantly increased, this industry is still projected to be one of...

Tags: Benefits, Business Operations, Finance, Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Industry, Human Resources, Information Technology, It Operations, Management, Operational Accounting, Outsource, Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Revenue, Strategy, Vertical Industries

White papers 2009-01-01

Clinical Decision Support Using OLAP With Data Mining

The healthcare industry collects huge amounts of data which, unfortunately, are not turned into useful information for effective decision making. Decision support systems DSS can now use advanced technologies such as On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP and data mining to deliver advanced capabilities. This paper presents a prototype clinical decision support...

Tags: Decision Support Inc., OLAP, Multimedia University, Healthcare Industry, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Databases, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-09-01

The Cisco Medical-Grade Network: Transforming Healthcare

The healthcare industry is undergoing a transformation. Faced with mounting pressures to reduce costs while improving the overall quality of care, healthcare organizations worldwide are increasingly turning to information technology to help address business and technical challenges. The Cisco Medical-Grade Network framework is a network design optimized for the healthcare...

Tags: Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Healthcare Industry, Cisco Medical-Grade Network Framework, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2007-07-02

Doctors urged to switch to e-prescriptions

Doctors urged to switch to e-prescriptionsAbout time. Healtcare industry is in the dark agesThe Healthcare industry is not only the largest industry in terms of dollar value of services, it is incredibly the most archaic in adopting technology.Doctors still write on dead trees to record and update patient information. They...

Tags: Healthcare Industry

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

IT spending by healthcare industry reached $98.1 bln in 2004

Increasing IT adoption rates within the US healthcare industry are expected to fuel the growth of the software market over the next five years, according to IDC. On average, the healthcare market will represent a 9.7% five-year compound annual growth rate CAGR within the packaged applications, infrastructure software, and application...

Tags: healthcare industry, health care

Blog posts 2005-07-28

Intel gives health care a dose of tech

Intel gives health care a dose of techPortable devices and embedded systems...Portable devices and embedded systems are going to be big business as the aging baby boomers place a huge load on the healthcare industry. These devices are going to be important in the whole "do more with less"...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, healthcare industry, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-02-09

$13.6 bln will be spent on healthcare applications by 2008

Annual growth in applications spending is expected to reach a trough in 2006, with growth expected to increase at an escalating rate in 2007. However, growth is expected to remain strong over the next five years. By 2008 growth in spending on this category is expected to reach roughly 9%....

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, health care, healthcare industry

Blog posts 2004-10-21

Additional Resources

U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%

Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

House due for its health reform vote tomorrow

the American patriots will rise againand defeat the socialist bill.All real Americans are outraged about ObamaCare and the Congress should listen to them.Only the GOP healthcare bill is the one we can afford and will improve the healthcare.Not going to passPeople do not want this socialist fiasco.RE: House due for...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, WTF, health care, insurance, patriot

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

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

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

iSinglePayer for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

iSinglePayer for iPhone gives you a direct line to your congressperson so you can ask for effective health care reform in the United States of America. iSinglePayer for iPhone packs in the following features use GPS to automatically determine your local congressional district and state, call your local member of...

Tags: Health Insurance, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Health Care, Floatopian, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-23

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Self insured may be biggest winners in health reform

more nonsenseAvoiding insurance companies and creeating death panels are not going to improve the healthcare.The only measures that can relly reform helthcare are in the republican bills that the democrats don't want you to see.Noo thanks"Intervention in maintaining wellness."If by "intervention" you mean "we know what's better for you than...

Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, patient, Dana, Obama, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

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

IBM® Industry Podcast series: Tips for Thriving in Today's Economy with BPM.

Today, more than ever, organizations must deliver the benefits of cost optimization and business agility. This Podcast series explains how that goal can be realized through dynamic Business Processes Management. The series focuses on banking, government, healthcare, insurance, cross-industry and retail.

Tags: BPM, Industry, Series, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Government, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Internet, It Operations, Business Operations

Download resources 2009-10-07

Open Solutions Alliance acquired by Europeans

Merger is Good for OPen SourceAwareness of the value of open source continues to spread horizontally across industries, including financial, telecom, healthcare, media and the software development industry itself. As open source use and mainstream adoption progresses, a natural evolution could be the development of a channel for business-oriented...

Tags: alliance, open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-05