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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

Monument to cost rises over Copacabana

The old Copacabana nightclub in New York, across from the Javits Convention Center, will come down in favor of a 1 million square foot, 45-50 story tall medical device market.The World Product Centre is the brainchild of Israel Green, and will be built by Extell Development, best known for residential towers....

Tags: Medical Office Equipment, Medical Equipment, Hospital Equipment, Home Health Care Equipment, General, Gadgets

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Today's Debate: We're all just electrical impulse

Yesterday's big story, the lead on the NBC Nightly News, was of course the use of a "brain pacemaker" to bring people out of deep coma.Brian Williams expressed great amazement at this feat, called Deep Brain Stimulation, noting that hundreds of thousands may be "awakened" by it.DBS is already approved as...

Tags: Medical Equipment, Hospital Equipment, General, Ethics, Curioisities

Blog posts 2007-08-02

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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

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customers

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customersWhy, just Why?Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to becoming Comcast customers? Where I live even DSL is not available so my only choice is Comcast and they are terrible, their customer service is terrible, their installers are unreliable and they...

Tags: INTERNET, Cable, Network technology, TVs, Broadband Internet, comcast, Comcast Corp., voice customer

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

WSJ: Steve Jobs received liver transplant

WSJ: Steve Jobs received liver transplantNon disclosure another serious FU to shareholdersThey have same level of distain for their shareholders as they do for their custonmers so it's no surprise that even already under fire for withholding Jobs health info from them they'd try to withhold this information. At...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Steve Jobs Received, liver transplant, transplant, stock

Discussion threads 2009-06-20

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

Eaton gives you more power over your power

Power equipment manufacturer Eaton has compressed the design for a new three-phase data center uninterruptible power systems UPS, called the Eaton 9390IT, which is 61 percent smaller than units from rival manufacturers. The technology also uses a double-conversion process, which Eaton says helps the 40kVA UPS deliver efficiency of 99...

Tags: Data Center, Eaton, Uninterruptible Power System, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-05

News to know: Windows 7; Swine flu; Facebook; SOA

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. Zack Whittaker: Tech-take on the spread of swine flu. Techmeme Ed Bott: What you need to know about the Windows 7 Release Candidate ...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, SOA, Release Candidate, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

How much is that Mac ephemera in the window?

How much is that Mac ephemera in the window?Ok, so?I just can't stand some mac guys always wanna show their "virtual" nobleness (which I don't see and I never believe).Apple taxPaying the Apple tax for a lifetime instead of a health insurance. Way to go. And he doesn't even realize...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Construction, Desktops, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Apple Macintosh, health care, window, U-2, Apple Inc., tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-21

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

How far does Conficker infection of British government go?

I guess the question is whether we really expect that government IT is a highly sophisticated operation or that it's run with the same efficiency as the gasbags whom it serves. Friday, the Guardian reported that the House of Commons has been infected with Conficker, which...

Tags: Infection, Network, Government, Virus, House, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Perfect Medical Icons 2009.1 (Windows)

Healthcare is a huge domain of knowledge that uses an immense array of notions, symbols, signs and other visual elements. If you are developing applications for the medical industry or are working on a health-related website, you need a set of graphic elements that will make your interfaces intuitive, attractive...

Tags: Health Care, Microsoft Windows, Aha-soft, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-03-23

Nuclear weapons lab loses 67 computers

Nuclear weapons lab loses 67 computers Lost or StolenI like how this is one category.Stolen is stolen - a criminal matter.Lost - that's employee carelessness.Two completely different things with different actions being required to remedy the situation.The blackberry doesnt matter, they can just brick it.as for the PC's, vpns and...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear weapons lab, computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

McKinsley blames technology for our health care woes

McKinsley blames technology for our health care woesGive us old folks the little blue pillNo, not Viagra.Samuelson is obviously one of the more affluent of us as we move toward old age. Quite happy to increase costs of medical care and reduce expensive services for those on Medicare. ...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Samuelson, health care, McKinsley, health care woe

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

Go med young man

Go med young manThink of all the doctor appointments that you've ever hadYeow---I didn't like any of them---traumatized!Doctors are expensive to educate...... leading to large loans. They require expensive procedures and prescriptions to do their jobs.How many Doctors can the country afford?I've read that the mathematically best and brightest...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, young man, health care, Socialized Medicine

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care

How medical device makers can improve U.S. health careIt could be that 289,241,887 less people areeasier to take care of?Population of the US: 305,682,000Population of the Netherlands: 16,440,113A minor difference to be sure.Additionally, how many people imigrate, or are illegal to the Netherlands vs the United States? Are these poeple...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Document management, INTERNET, HEALTHCARE, Netherland, DME, medical device, management system, imaging, ROI

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Aging equipment or none at all?

Aging equipment or none at all?Is it broken?Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the purpose served by replacing a perfectly functional IV metering system with one that's newer just because of an arbitrary 10% rule.Also note that the easy way to keep up with mandated service-life requirements is...

Tags: old equipment

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

The 12 Elements of Great Managing (Mobile)

Essential leadership and managerial skills that are effective in motivating workers are reflected in The 12 Elements. Key business and corporate policies, procedures such as rewards; materials and equipment; recognition and praise; and growth opportunities are discussed.12: The Elements of Great Managing is the long-awaited sequel to the 1999 runaway...

Tags: Opportunity, Mobile, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2008-11-02