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...
Medical technology manufacturer not only builds the instruments used to treat various ailments, but also employs sales professionals to market those solutions directly to hospitals. If the company can accurately predict which job candidates will produce more sales in this specialized medical industry, it holds a profitable advantage in employee...
Skytron, a medical equipment company, and Clinical Engineering Consultants, a re-seller, are teaming up to build a Web portal for tracking the performance and ownership costs of medical equipment. It's a great idea but they're going to have to work on the name. The...
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....
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...
Istituto Clinici di Perfezionamento ICP oversees the Vittore Buzzi children's hospital, the Orthopedic Trauma Center, and 22 local district hospitals around the city of Milan. ICP wanted to improve tracking of electronic medical equipment in a busy working environment. The challenge was to reduce the amount of paperwork and process...
Republicans up to no good again.Another buck for doing nothing.CCHIT HappensThats it.We bought a package that was CCHIT certified, one of our requirements.We had plenty of other requirements for an EHR, but they wanted to make sure it was certified by someone else just incase the goverment came up with...
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...
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...
OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. It is fully compliant with the...
Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...
We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...
The clinical benefits of computerized medical records are clear; however, the costs of current proprietary systems are large. These high cost systems inhibit many small practices from transitioning to computerized medical records. This obstacle can easily be circumvented with OpenEMR. OpenEMR is a free medical practice management, electronic medical records,...
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...
Based in San Antonio, Texas, SPFM is a distributor of medical equipment, health and beauty products, and specialty food items. The company needed to modernize its IT infrastructure to accommodate rapid growth and improve the availability of critical applications. With the help of Catapult Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner,...
Sensors, search and sleep apnea on Microsoft Research confab's line-upsleep apnea?sleep apnea? sounds off-topic for Microsoft, but I can understand it. Military and health are two fields where there is a lot of money to be made if you can get a foot in. It's low volume, but...
Health reform must focus on incentives to cut costsChanging who pays for health careis precisely what is needed to cut costs. The only problem is, who pays for health care needs to be you, and not someone else. As long as we simply shift who the "someone else" is, the...
This is the stand alone version of KidCard, which is also included in the KidPack bundle by Medical Data Solutions. Emergency medications are classified into easily accessible, menu driven categories such as Asthma, Seizures, CPR meds, Infusions, and Equipment. Doses are calculated based on patients entered weight. Our new version...
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...
Medical Icons for Vista provides an almost unlimited selection of various icons on medicine-related topics, such as conventional signs of professions in healthcare, medical equipment and insurance, veterinary, etc. The icons will relieve designers and software developers of the burdensome task of creating icons for websites and desktop software on...
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