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Veriscrip built on government regulation

One fact that marks healthcare IT is how you can build a profitable business just based on the need to enforce government regulations.VirtualHealth Technologies of Lexington, Kentucky, for instance, is building itself on HIPAA, through a unit called Veriscrip.HIPAA requires secure tracking of medical information, and controls who can access...

Tags: state government, Physician Information, Medical Records, Medical Office IT, Medical IT, General

Blog posts 2007-08-03

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

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Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Obamicans rebranding NHIN-Connect as the Health Internet

Hey look. A tech storyYou don't want me to write about policy so here's a tech story and we get...crickets. I guess the market is saying write more policy stories, isn't it? I'm sorry...... I'm still trying to figure out what an "Obamican" is.(But you get extra points for using...

Tags: Vertical industries, Obamicans, Health Internet, tech story, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

QPack Free Testing Tool Test Management 5.3.1 (Windows)

QPack is an end-to-end solution for Application Lifecycle Management, containing all development lifecycle modules, such as market requirements, system specs, development, testing, and delivery. QPack ALM supports the marketing team, system architects, developers and testers by providing each team with professional tools suited to its specific needs and methodologies. QPack...

Tags: Medical Device, Microsoft Windows, Application Lifecycle Management, Tool, Orcanos Application Lifecycle Management, QPack, QPack ALM, Medical Device Software Development, QPack Medical Device Software Development, Healthcare, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

GE shows off mini ultrasound device

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the new device will be make it easier for clinicians to monitor the human body in a variety of settings, including countries where medical professionals cannot afford...

Tags: General Electric Co., Web 2.0, Document Management, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Components, GE

Videos 2009-10-21

Web 2.0 Summit video: GE shows off mini ultrasound device

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the new device will be make it easier for clinicians to monitor the human body in a variety of settings, including countries where medical professionals cannot afford...

Tags: Web, General Electric Co., Video, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

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

VA now loves its VistA software

In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Reduce the Cost to Achieving HIPAA Security Compliance with Lumension® Solutions

Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online. Lumension helps organizations address these compliance challenges by providing the proactive risk management and the required audit readiness to meet many aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule.

Tags: Compliance, Lumension Security Inc., Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2009-10-12

Handy Patients Enterprise 5.2 (Windows)

Handy Patients Enterprise is a patient tracker electronic medical records or EMR for professional use that is compatible with desktop computers, notebooks, TabletPCs and UMPCs. This software is aimed at professionals who take care of patients every day and would like to simplify and modernize their working environment. From recording...

Tags: Patient, Microsoft Windows, Handylife, Handy Patients Enterprise

Software downloads 2009-10-01

Microsoft's Courier tablet: A Franklin Covey planner on steroids?

I'd buy one instantlyThe Courier embodies everything I've wanted in a portable device for well over five years now - essentially an electronic pad/binder that works very similar to the physical counterpart. Notebooks are too cludgy (being clam-shells) and tablet PCs far too heavy (and still basically clam-shells), not...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Microsoft Corp., Franklin Covey

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Kareo 1.46 (Windows)

Kareo provides Web-based medical billing software, practice management software, electronic claims processing, and electronic medical records software. Trusted by thousands of doctors and hundreds of medical billing companies, Kareo is the most user friendly, easy to buy, and easy to set up solution on the market offering immediate benefits with...

Tags: Software, Medical Billing, Microsoft Windows, Kareo, Healthcare

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Does Oracle matter to open source

only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Companies to offer free foreign travel for their sick

Wow, a great way to force our overpaid doctors to compete. Doctors should have a comfortable life, but, they do not need to earn 100x what they do in other countries.and if there are complications?If a US citizen travels abroad for a procedure and returns home, who will treat any...

Tags: Financial Planning, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Facebook ranks in privacy poll; Users like control of their content

Facebook is ranked as one of the 10 most trusted companies when it comes to privacy, according to the findings from a survey by the Ponemon Institute, an information security research company, and TRUSTe, a widely recognized Internet privacy trustmark company. The social networking site - ranked...

Tags: Facebook, Privacy, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon

It's about time.. Maybe they'll even learn about tech.Now if only Washington would start protecting our digital media rights. We should be able to use media we purchase on any device we own. Washington has done everything it can to screw us out of that right for the past decade....

Tags: Government, Benefits, Vertical industries, cloud computing, Data Ownership, Google Inc., benefit, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Survival of the fit-most

backblazeHi Phil,Great post as always. Extra kudos to the backblaze team for publishing this information. I was particularly impressed by the detail that conveyed a genuine desire to help the community in their blog post.-NickDoes it really take so many words to say . . .Does it really...

Tags: Benefits, security, benefit, health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Not your father's tech school

Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit our local vacational/technical school several times. When I was a kid, the voc tech school was only for dropouts, burnouts, and pregnant girls, with the occasional budding mechanic thrown in for good measure. This couldn't be further from the case now...

Tags: School, Clinical Trial, Tech School, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-09