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Microsoft launches its Mayo-branded Healthvault

Microsoft announced it has finished integrating its Healthvault PHR with the Mayo Clinic's EHR system, which it will market to Mayo patients under the name Mayo Clinic Health Manager.This fulfills market promises first made in January, 2008. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Mayo Clinic, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Value in hospital branding

Branding is a hush-hush topic among hospital administrators. Most prefer to think of reputation. That's different. You throw out a name at someone, they nod, and that's a good reputation. They throw a name at you, that's branding. Individuals like Rusty...

Tags: Brand, Mayo Clinic, Technology, No., Branding, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Mayo to brand Microsoft health site

The Mayo Clinic will lend its brand name to Microsoft's consumer health site. This is not the only Mayo-technology tie-up you have seen here. There is ongoing work with IBM in medical imaging and in data-mining. While the clinic is best-known as being in...

Tags: Brand, Mayo Clinic, Martha Stewart, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Big fish hospital, big fish vendor

The alliance of the Mayo Clinic and IBM, first announced in 2004, was expanded yesterday with a medical imaging initiative aimed at speeding-up diagnoses. As the epic Seinfeld episode noted almost 15 years ago, "not that there's anything wrong with that." Which was then, and is now,...

Tags: Alliance, Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft Corp., Computing, IBM Corp., Healthcare, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-09

Additional Resources

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health IT

Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health ITIs this like the internet all over again?Wasn't it Microsoft who said the internet is a useless fad right up until they released internet explorer?Sometimes, letting others make the mistakes first is wise.And when it comes to IT health care there are thousands of...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Health IT, health care, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Does SEC have a role in Jobs' health reports?

Does SEC have a role in Jobs' health reports?Fecal studiesWhen one tries to consider just what the SEC could do that would be of value I think it's important to first look at what the Whipple procedure is. They could do a Google on the Whipple procedure - the...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, SEC, health report, Whipple, job, health care

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

How Daschle-care will change Health IT

How Daschle-care will change Health ITHuh?"...the first job of a Federal Health Board would be to seek better data on both wellness and illness..."Federal Health Board? Come again? We already have the Dept. of H&HS...plus the CDC. Etc. etc. etc. Why not add another?!RE: How Daschle-care...

Tags: Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Daschle-care, Federal Health Board, health care, Health IT

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tour

Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tourMicrosoft HealthVault offers the nickel tourSounds good in theory but...[i]But Nolan admits the system won't really take off until its partners, such as Kaiser, Mayo Clinic and New York Presbyterian Hospital, build in connectivity that lets you download your records from them quickly.[/i]Therein lies the...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Microsoft HealthVault, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart disease

GSMs offer new link between Alzheimer's and heart diseaseYou've got it wrong!The "plaque" that forms in Alzheimer's disease brains is biochemically and pathologically completely different than the "plaques" that form in arteries with atherosclerosis. The link between these two conditions and treatment thereof that is implied in this article...

Tags: Alzheimer's disease, GSM

Discussion threads 2008-06-14

The value in name patients

The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...

Tags: Friedman, patient, Kennedy, surgery

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer benefits but no panacea for IT managers

I am always skeptical about new technologies that "threaten" to transform the traditional PC desktop. In my 20 years following the PC industry, I’ve seen them all â€" server-based models, thin clients, application streaming technologies, hosted ASP and newer software-as-a-service models, even Linux.  I still use a...

Tags: Desktop Management, Benefit, Server, ScriptStart, Leostream, Desktops, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Is Congress looking at the right VA scandal?

The U.S. Senate is finally getting on the Veterans Administration's VA case. Spurred by a class action suit which is now going to trial, Sen. Patty Murray has demanded the resignation of Dr. Ira Katz, the head of the agency's mental health wing. As...

Tags: Sen., U.S. Congress, Health Care, John McCain, VA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Bottled water and baby bottles: maybe not so good

Bottled water and baby bottles: maybe not so goodIf given directly to small mammals in large quantities.If you follow the trail to the original research, it was actually a study on mice who were given large quantities of the chemical directly.As far as I know, however, the studies on humans...

Tags: baby bottle, Bottled Water, not-so

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

Credibility in online health care

One reason readers here respond so strongly -- both positively and negatively -- when I mention Google lies in how it finds things for you. (Picture from AlignedStrategy.Com.) The PageRank algorithm, at its heart, is a popularity contest. If all the popular sites point to you then...

Tags: Credibility, Tech, Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Sales Tools, Branding, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-04

PocketBilling 4.0 (Mobile)

PocketBilling 4.0 is the leading charge capture solution for physicians. Use your handheld to track hospital and ambulatory charges! Key BenefitsPocketBilling is the leading stand-alone charge capture and tracking handheld software.It is the fastest, easiest, and most intuitive method for physicians to capture charges for inpatient billing and tracking. Excellent...

Tags: Physician, Mobile, Southern Illinois University, PocketMed, PocketBilling 4.0

Software downloads 2007-06-18

Mobile Diet 1 (Mobile)

Beside physical exercise, getting your ideal body largely depends on your health diet. Designed for innovation, originality and ease of use, Mobile Diet lets you achieve your weight goal consistently. With only 1 key operation, it takes only 2 seconds to enter a meal, compared to the average 2 minutes!...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Diet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-12-11

Site puts disaster info at schools' fingertips

With hurricane season bearing down on the Southern states once again Tropical Storm Alberto threatens to become a hurricane at post time, the nation's top emergency management officials now have a new resource for helping schools deal with disaster preparedness, reports eSchool News. Ready-or-not.org is a low-cost,...

Tags: Ready-or-Not

Blog posts 2006-06-12

NEW! - Anesthesia Central (Mobile)

Anesthesia Central PDA, Web, & Wireless -- for one price! Anesthesia Central is the all-in-one, mobile solution for anesthesiology providing detailed information on diseases, drugs, tests, procedures, and techniques along with powerful tools for tracking and searching the medical literature. With one product purchase you receive Unbound Medicine's award winning...

Tags: Web, Patient, Mobile, Wireless, Unbound Medicine, Anesthesia Central, Davis, PDAs, Handhelds, Productivity, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-04-27

Best Seller! Sizzling 12000 Recipes (Mobile)

Don't know what to make for dinner?Get over 12,000 different recipes for any setting! There are 3 ways to navigate for recipes:1) Alphabetical Index, which lists all recipe categories for faster browsing.the selected letter.2) Search feature; tap on the Search icon while in the Database (binoculars icon at the bottom...

Tags: Food, Mobile, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2003-05-10