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Today's Debate: Who should control the medical record database?: Most databases are controlled by their owners. Medicine is currently in a non-stop arms race among HMOs, insurers, and hospitals, with each hoping to control medical decisions through their control of medical record databases. Even pharmacists are in on it. But who should control...; Tags: Medicine, Database, Patient, Health Care, Medical Record, Medical Records Database, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-09-17

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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
Workday: a tipping point?: Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...; Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14

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
Semantics add value to new travel site as UpTake emerges from private beta: Palo Alto-based travel meta-search site UpTake formerly Kango entered a new phase this morning, emerging from a private beta programme that began in December to give a clear indication of how they've been spending the $4million secured from Shasta Ventures last year. For...; Tags: Hotel, San Diego, Site, UpTake, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Frequent open source miles: Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...; Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis: The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...; Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Kernel Access Database Repair Software (exe): Kernel Access - Corrupt MS Access database repair software tool is designed to reconstruct corrupt access database files which gets corrupted. The software uses LivePreview technology, which quickly extracts the damaged database structure and restores lost tables and data stored in the tables. Supported MS Access databases are MS Access...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data 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
Livescribe demos new smartpen: Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe, shows off the 2GB, Java-capable Pulse Smartpen at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The pen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, then synchs up the sound with the writing. Audio can then be played back when someone taps the pen on paper....; Tags: Audio, Smartpen, JavaOne, Livescribe, Pulse, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Videos 2008-05-13
Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today: Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine. The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself. To be fair to...; Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches: Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains:...; Tags: Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Zero Day Initiative, Security, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent: When Microsoft starts shipping its Windows Small Business Server 2008 product later this year, its price will be substantially higher -- as much as 80 percent -- than the current version of Small Business Server. Surprisingly, some testers and at least one market researcher don't seem fazed...; Tags: U.S., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Product, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, CAL, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-13
CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS: I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-13
SQL Excel (zip): Freeware Excel Add-In - Simplify data retrieval from SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and MY SQL and any other ODBC compliant database. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: SQL, SQl Excel, Programming Languages, Databases, Microsoft Excel, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites; Software downloads 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
Advanced Graph and Chart Collection for PHP (zip): Add reporting features to your Web / Intranet pages and applications. With advanced graphing you will be quickly adding impressive and dynamic charting capabilities bringing your data alive. The PHP graphing scripts provide a very easy way to embed dynamically generated graphs and charts into PHP applications and HTML web...; Tags: Web, Database, PHP, Computer Consultant, Sirius, Scripting Languages, Channel Management, Storage, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-05-13