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A better way to track equipment with a better name needed: 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...; Tags: Software Product, Circuit Board, Idea, Air Traffic Control, Portal, Medical Equipment, Skytron, Portal Product, Playwright, Portals, Web Technology, Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, Internet, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-13
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
Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento Improves Equipment Management and Maintenance: 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...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Medical Equipment, Healthcare; Case studies

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Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform: Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...; Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Patent reform dead for 2008: The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...; Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
A stick and personal care for those who can afford it: Lorne Stitsky has a dream. It's the comfortable life internists enjoyed generations ago. A small number of patients, whom he can know intimately and who will depend on him as families did way back when. You can almost hear Randy Newman's Dayton Ohio 1903 playing in the...; Tags: Patient, Dr., Lorne Stitsky, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The death gap: The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young...; Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.: The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...; Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-14
OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?: Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival or at least one of them Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY up the ante when it comes to an energy-efficiency proclamation. Here's the thing: While other vendors, including...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks): Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksThe tests Adrian refused to runI guess he was going to find that his Mac Mini was not a good purchase anyway.RE: Benchmarks: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksWell what do the numbers indicate ??? Larger numbers better or worse...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Psystar, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, computer, Tiny Computers; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
Electronic Piano (5): Learn to play music on your computer. Play Musical Notes, Chords, and Drums using the computer keyboard. With this fascinating program you can learn to play and compose music right on your computer without having to buy any additional equipment or instruments. This version is the first release on CNET...; Tags: Computer, Music, MSI, Productivity, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals; Software downloads 2008-05-14
GymGoal Lite (zip): GymGoal Lite puts over 200 weight training exercises at your fingertips. Every exercise comes with detailed instructions. Most of exercises are illustrated by drawings. The software makes it easy to find exercises by worked muscles, type, equipment, level of difficulty, and other parameters. GymGoal Lite also offers ready-to-use workout routines,...; Tags: Exercise, Smaltek, GymGoal Lite, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-14
Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...: Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...; Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-13
6 Gbit drives coming: Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra's end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate's early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives HDDs. This successful demonstration of 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI SAS interoperability provides server and storage system equipment...; Tags: Disk, PMC-Sierra Inc., Serial Attached SCSI, Seagate Technology LLC, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-05-13
No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly: EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out its gear. EarthLink says in a statement: After months of negotiations with...; Tags: EarthLink Inc., Network, Wi-Fi Network, City, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers: The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...; Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-13
HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies: HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....; Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
The SunFire X4500: Addressing New Workloads with a New Blend of Server and Storage: This IDC report shows how the digital world has become more varied over time, and the types of data that must be stored as part of regulatory and compliance standards encompass more formats than ever before. Video images, medical images, document images, audio files, and large data sets generated by...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Workload, Server, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2008-05-13