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SaaS is quick way to medical automation

SaaS is quick way to medical automationOh Yeah baby.."They're trying to sell a health care application, and the customer is asking questions about Ethernet cable degradation. This makes it exceedingly difficult unless we're with them. We can answer that. We actually have an Ethernet cable replacement policy."Man, We walked in...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Network technology, Clean Up, health care, SaaS Model, automation, medical automation, cable, Healthcare Delivery, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2007-08-18

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News to know: VMWare; White House; Google Books; Skype; Apple vs Android

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. Larry Dignan: VMware to step up data center automation game Sam Diaz: White House not equipped to hold keys...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, White House, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Digital Cameras, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Atrium Medical Identifies Clinical System Capabilities Needed to Support Continued Business Growth

Atrium Medical wanted to scale operations to support rapid growth in new product development requiring clinical trials and improve the speed, cost-effectiveness and quality of clinical trial operations. The challenge was to design a more integrated and transparent approach to creating and managing clinical trials and identify opportunities to improve...

Tags: Atrium Medical Corp., Clinical Trial, Healthcare

Case studies 2009-08-01

EMC World: Companies that adopt new tools still need to manage the data

How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...

Tags: Mark Lewis, EMC Corp., Tool, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-19

AggreGate Device Manager 4.24.01 (Windows)

AggreGate Device Management Platform is a complete device management solution that employs modern network technologies to control, configure and monitor different electronic devices. It also helps you to aggregate device data into a common database, where you can "slice and dice" it according to your needs, as well as let...

Tags: Device, Network, Microsoft Windows, Tibbo, AggreGate Device Management Platform, AggreGate LinkServer, Data Centers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-04-14

Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm

The idea of nanorobots floating throughout our arteries to fight diseases and deliver drugs is migrating from science fiction to medical fact, at least in virtual 3D simulations. Nanorobotics pioneer Adriano Cavalcanti and his colleagues report progress with their nanorobot control design NCD software which helps them simulate the behavior...

Tags: Gradient, Vessel, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-25

$20 billion is the number on health IT stimulus

$20 billion is the number on health IT stimulusWASTE of Tax dollars for Big Gov....Welcome to Socialism 101...Insurance company lap dogsWhen I was young (in the 50s) the concept of insurance companies was to share the risk. Today the goal of insurance companies is to minimize the risk.The problem...

Tags: Financial Planning, insurance, risk, insurance company

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

NITConnect Automates Hospital's HR and Payroll Systems

At a time when every industry is feeling the pinch and cutting costs, maintaining quality and efficiency becomes more difficult. To tackle these challenges organizations are embracing automation as a means to streamline daily business processes. Hoboken University Medical Center HUMC engaged NITConnect to convert its timekeeping process from a...

Tags: Human Resources, Hospital, Kronos Inc., Network Infrastructure, Payroll, Network Infrastructure Technologies, NITConnect, Network Administration, Healthcare, Networking

Case studies 2009-01-01

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast â€" Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

A UMan robotic arm

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...

Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Windows Embedded 'Quebec' due in 2010

Although it hasn't said much about its plans for a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based  embedded operating system, Microsoft already is working on one. Microsoft released during the first week of June a new test build of its latest Windows XP-based embedded operating system, known as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Windows Embedded, Quebec, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Does business really oppose universal coverage?

Does business really oppose universal coverage?Oh please. Not another government bureaucracy..run with the efficiency of the Post Office. Far better, in my view, to leave health care in the hands of the consumer. But do it in a way that encourages competition, not the way it is...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?

The headline is the Congressional Budget Office says a claim by RAND Corp. the nation will save $77 billion through heavy use of IT in health care is bunk. But that's not the whole story. The CBO, a bipartisan body which helps Congress formulate...

Tags: Information Technology, Congressional Budget Office, Blog, Health Care, Automation, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Delaying a PC revolution in cell diagnosis

What if we could revolutionize medical testing, a platform as basic as a PC? Then what if every application, and every input, had to be separately inspected and approved by the FDA? That's life. Iknoisys of New Haven says it has just such a...

Tags: FDA, PC, Test, Clearance, Party Solution, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Hacking and the modern hospital

As if you need another reason to distrust medical automation Jeffery Gibson of Marshall, Minn. faces up to 10 years in prison for planting a logic bomb in a hospital's computer system. (Picture from Profitability.Net.) What makes this especially scary is that Gibson was not a hospital...

Tags: Google Inc., Hospital, Hacking, Computer, Productivity, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-24

WildPackets Case Study: Baxter Regional Medical Center

Baxter Regional is at the forefront of meeting the increasing demand for health care services in the Twin Lakes area. As a not-for-profit corporation, Baxter Regional's strategy relies on improving process efficiencies with more automation and with optimal network infrastructure. Baxter Regional Medical Center wanted to maintain optimum network performance...

Tags: WildPackets, Network, Health Care, Network Performance, Baxter Regional, Vertical Industries, Networking, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-01-22

What the electronic medical record movement needs

The march toward automating health records goes on. (Image of stick memory from MedicAlert.) New York has set a goal of getting its basic records online by the end of this year. That's patient charts, referrals, and prescription data. Medical groups are already touting...

Tags: Patient, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Standards, Quality, E-health, Leadership, Healthcare, Business Operations, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Who will mandate electronic health records?

There's a race on to mandate electronic health records. (Picture from Medical Informatics Insider.) Insurers, politicians and hospitals are all piling on the pressure to make the investment. An AMA story this week describes the pressure. Some doctors are retiring rather than automate. In...

Tags: Hospital, Electronic Health Record, Insurance Company, Automation, AMA, E-health, Healthcare, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Nanorobots for drug delivery?

The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-08