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What scares doctors about technology

I think I know what most frightens physicians about technology.It's the fear of becoming part of a roll-up, like Esse Health, profiled recently by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On the surface Esse is simply a collection of doctors' offices. But when new CEO Mike Castellano talks about it, he's describing something...

Tags: Physician Information, Payment Processing, Medical Records, Medical Office IT, Medical Office Equipment, Medical IT, General

Blog posts 2007-08-02

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

Additional Resources

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

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...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

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...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customers

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...

Tags: INTERNET, Cable, Network technology, TVs, Broadband Internet, comcast, Comcast Corp., voice customer

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Sensors, search and sleep apnea on Microsoft Research confab's line-up

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...

Tags: apnea, sleep apnea, line-up, Microsoft Research, sensor, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Palm Pre has a date: June 6; Price: $199.99; A 'crossover' device?

Palm Pre has a date: June 6; Price: $199.99; A 'crossover' device?Good luck, they'll need it...It ain't no iPhone, and never will be an iPhone. No AppStore, iTunes or iPod and limited to what it comes with. Why would I buy one of these when I can buy an iPhone...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Digital music, Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, Palm Inc., Pre

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Microsoft, Linux Foundation issue joint letter opposing proposed software-licensing principles

Microsoft, Linux Foundation issue joint letter opposing proposed software-licensing principlesTranslationWe linux and MS know most of our software is crap, and if you make us warranty it, we're screwed.I find this very interesting!The amazing thing about software, if written correctly, is that you CAN guarantee it will do the same...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., software, operating system, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Advances in TREKnology

In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once...

Tags: Netscape Communicator, Star Trek, Technology, Information Technology Star Trek, McCoy, E-mail Clients, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-08

The biggest market for the iTablet: healthcare

The biggest market for the iTablet: healthcareReally?My doctor has been using a tablet PC in his office for a long time now. Not sure he is concerned with ease of use as it is a windows based pc with an application that would be no different on a Mac....

Tags: Tablets, Desktops, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Notebooks, Food & Beverage, iTablet, PC, health care, tablet PC, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Inc., tablet

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration

As much as many of us would like to continue to revel in the day, the inauguration with all of its rock-concert fanfare, pomp and circumstance is over, and it is finally time for the new administration to get to work. The 44th President of the...

Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Administration, Broadband, Digital Television, TVs, Workforce Management, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-21

How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care

How medical device makers can improve U.S. health careIt could be that 289,241,887 less people areeasier to take care of?Population of the US: 305,682,000Population of the Netherlands: 16,440,113A minor difference to be sure.Additionally, how many people imigrate, or are illegal to the Netherlands vs the United States? Are these poeple...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Document management, INTERNET, HEALTHCARE, Netherland, DME, medical device, management system, imaging, ROI

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Will the EMR movement become a political divide

Will the EMR movement become a political divideFYI: Its now EHR, not EMR...the change is to include dental, pyschological and other healthcare services.Electronic Health Records.We are in the middle of deployment strategy planning. The cost of deploying equipment and personell to get this up and running is staggering. ...

Tags: Vertical industries, E-health, HEALTHCARE, Practical Reality, EMR, EMR movement, political divide, divide, government

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Fire burns for three hours at Apple HQ in Cupertino (updated 2x)

Fire burns for three hours at Apple HQ in Cupertino (updated 2x)Witness reportedseeing a fat bald guy in his 50s running from the Apple campus. When he reached the street and looked back at the fire, the witnesses said he started jumping around the street - something like a...

Tags: 3G, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breach

Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breachRegulation neededI agree that regulation is needed. But until consumers really start pitching serious fits, and/or the courts start implementing some punitive damages with teeth, it's not going to happen. http://whistlersear.wordpress.comRE: Failed IT causes major Georgia Blue Cross health...

Tags: Regulations, health care, information technology, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Georgia Blue Cross health privacy breach, Georgia Blue Cross health, Failed IT cause, privacy breach, regulation

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Chronic conditions break the bank

Chronic conditions break the bankUnpatentable therapy that won't break the bankEnd-result data, historical statistical data showing the longevity records of people exposed to niacin therapy, has shown that niacin, alone, significantly increased mortality.I recently read articles at http://www.cholesterolscore.com that claim niacin (B3) improves all the blood/lipid ratios more effectively than...

Tags: Niacin, Body Mass Index, U.S. Economy, Chronic condition, bank, therapy, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform

Medical companies celebrate death of patent reformOur health insurance dollars at workIn this case, patents allow medical equipment companies to charge premium prices to medical offices and hospitals, who pass the costs on to insurers, who pass the costs on to employers and taxpayers. Eventually, it's the patients who...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Benefits, patent, Jefferson

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Should doctors' offices go SaaS?

The recent Misys-Allscripts deal highlights how many medical offices are starting to see the advantages of going SaaS. (Illustration from Eric Berto's blog at Etolos, an open source software vendor.) Software as a Service SaaS means that you really only need simple PCs in your office, with perhaps a...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-28

On living with your doctor

Aerotel has announced the GeoSkeeper, a Global Positioning System-enabled, wrist-mounted unit that alerts a call center when you press its panic button. The call center can also track your position and raise an alert when you leave predefined zones such as your school. In addition to the GeoSkeeper (can you...

Tags: Doctor, Monitoring, Health Care, Aerotel, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Call Centers, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, It Operations, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-03-11