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- Hospital Goes Wireless to Improve Patient Services
- Inova Fairfax Hospital is a 656-bed regional medical center located in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. Nurses at Virginia's Inova Fairfax Hospital don't stop to take phone calls any more. That's because hundreds of nurses and other hospital employees answer their phones while they're on the go. This...
- Tags: Patient, Phone, Hospital, SpectraLink Corp., Telephone System, Wireless, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Healthcare, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications
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- Where WiFi succeeds
- Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Apple: "Let's Rock" on September 9
- Apple: "Let's Rock" on September 9I guess...I guess they are going to announce that Apple is better that PC,OS X than Windows Vista!, iPhone than Nokia, etc etc.I hope Apple Stocks go UP to $200. Investors please buy!RE: Apple:DRM free music across the board.iPods? Those obsolete things?In keeping with all...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Games, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, iPODS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Follow that robot!
- Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. This system mimics the human ability to...
- Tags: Cue, Leader, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- See the heart beat in real time from outside
- See the heart beat in real time from outsideUltrasound has gone a long wayBack in '71, when my wife was about 6 months along carrying our first born the hospital where she worked got the first ultrasound in the state. The Dr. (a friend of my wife's) came running...
- Tags: Ultrasound, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- My father, the casemodder
- My father, the casemodderTwo modsInstead of attaching the whole PC to the La-Z-Boy maybe a thin client connection to the PC in the home office would be cleaner.Also, I'm thinking of those newer couches where you have the table that can be folded down in between the two reclining ends....
- Tags: Keyboards, Desktops, Thin clients, Monitors & displays, PC Box, PC, thin client, wireless, LCD, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...
- Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- What good are gross hospital statistics?
- What good are gross hospital statistics?Patient population is significantAnd forget cheeseburgers. It's partly prior availability and use of medical care. People in some areas are more likely to be sick and more likely to have only emergency room interventions rather than ongoing care when their conditions force them...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Patient population, health care, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- What good are gross hospital statistics?
- Play the game, and then let me know if you're really going to make buying decisions based on this information. While you're on your back. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Hospital, Healthcare, Games, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Strategy, health care, ideology, ideological night, enormous innovation, surcharge, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Pet Vet 3D Animal Hospital (exe)
- As a pet vet you'll get to take care of fuzzy bunnies, adorable cats, dogs, horses, ponies and even piglets. Packed with oodles of awesome activities ranging from animal examinations, dog training and even horse back riding; you'll learn amazing facts about animals while you treat, care, and love them....
- Tags: 3D, Patient, Hospital, Viva Media
- Software downloads 2008-08-19
- U.S. Internet down by law, not market
- U.S. Internet down by law, not marketPlease refrain from the BS, Dana[i]ISPs are free to set terms and conditions of service, but if those terms become onorous the consumer can simply change carriers[/i]And we cannot?If I do not like Comcast I can move to Verizon, Cavalier, AOL, ATX, the list...
- Tags: Cable, Network technology, broadcaster
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?Medical device development in MassachusettsSpeaking as a member of the orthopedic medical device industry, it is our hope that the regulatory process will allow input from industry to develop reasonable disclosure guidelines without stifling activities that are beneficial to Massachusetts healthcare consumers. Below is an abbreviated...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, medical device, S. 2863, medical device industry, health care, manufacturer, industry
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Do you know where your computers are being recycled?
- I have almost 200 really old iMacs that are supposed to be recycled by Apple before school opens in September. I have an abandoned school building closed last year due to budget cuts with another 100 or so badly battered PCs that are in really sad shape, too. ...
- Tags: boy, e-waste, nigeria, computer, productivity, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Can global competition bring health care quality?
- Can global competition bring health care quality?Medicine is best done up close and personal...and it's bad enough that patients in rural areas often have to go to distant cities without our sending people to foreign countries.We need a much more competitive system, but that's best done locally.Globalization has nothing to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, hospital, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- HospitalGate Advanced (exe)
- HospitalGate is a network and multi-user hospital Information System - HIS, electronic medical record software and hospital admission software for small-medium hospital that contain all the financial, clinical, and operational elements for a successful running medical office. HospitalGate for small-medium hospital to manage in-patient & out-patient medical record, laboratory tests,...
- Tags: hospital, billing, electronic health record, insurance, medsites, hospitalgate, e-health, healthcare
- Software downloads 2008-08-07
- LinuxWorld: Health care IT solutions
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, McKesson CIO Randal Spratt explains why his company deploys its health care applications on Linux. He says these applications are scalable, affordable on tight hospital budgets, and reliable--making better patient care possible.
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, healthcare, IT, McKesson
- Videos 2008-08-05
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.It hasn't been that long ago...my company got rid of its last Green screen based network in favor of a fancy Windows based network at several of our branch offices. Guess what. We didn't pick up one iota of productivity gain. We...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Loverock Davidson, NOW IS, LinuxWorld, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- If there was one solid message to come from the opening keynotes at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, it is this: Now is the time. Illustrated through the lenses of two large, mainstream industries – financial services and health care – the first two presenters talked about ways...
- Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Linux, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
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