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- Midland hospital proves open source savings
- Midland Memorial Hospital got an $18 million EMR system for $7 million, thanks to open source. David Whiles, the hospital's director of information systems, told ZDNet that after a year in operation he's finally ready to brag about his Medsphere OpenVista installation. Midland signed...
- Tags: Hospital, Midland Memorial Hospital, Open Source, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- A complete EMR system for half the money
- Midland Memorial Hospital is finally ready to brag about its Medsphere EMR system, installed for $7 million when other vendors were asking at least $18 million. Director of IT Systems David Whiles and his 30-person staff removed the hospital's patient charts a year ago and are now calculating their return...
- Tags: Hospital, Midland Memorial Hospital, Systems David Whiles, Midland, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
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- Who will set price and quality standards?
- Did you know Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has a blog? It's a pretty good blog, in that it's evident he writes it himself, and in it deals with issues on a personal basis. For instance, he did a series of posts on a recent...
- Tags: Mike Leavitt, Health Care, Standards, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Where is the money going in health care, and why?
- I stumbled today upon an ADVANCE 2008 investment outlook for health care, and decided you might like me to hit some of the high points. The piece is written by James Brennan right, managing director of VirtualCDO, a medical merger outfit whose Web page describes him as the...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Health Care, James Brennan, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- TomTom One 130S
- The TomTom One 130 and TomTom One 130S mark a new beginning for the company's line of basic GPS. You still get TomTom's hallmark ease of use and community features, but the portable navigation systems now boast more compact designs as well as a new vehicle mount that can be...
- Tags: GPS, Keyboards, TomTom
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
- UK Health Program: a Very Sick Patient
- UK Health Program: a Very Sick PatientYou wait ages for a failed IT project and then four come along at onceThe failure of an IT project in the National Health Service is one of a number of failures in information technology recently. Other disasters are to be found at the...
- Tags: Other Disasters, patient, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- How elastic is health care demand?
- A New York Times feature on the difficulty insured patients are having with health care costs begs an obvious question. How elastic is health care demand? (Comedian Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman, turned 82 in January.) The idea of price elasticity is essential to making...
- Tags: Health Care, Emergency Medicine, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Can You See What I See? (exe)
- Help an unfortunate shop owner save his collectibles shop in this original take on hidden object fun! Meet poor Clyde Curfuffle. He's suffered a fire, a flood, and a nasty fall that's left him in the hospital. This horrible string of bad luck means there's no one to run his...
- Tags: Fun, SpinTop Games, Healthcare
- Software downloads 2008-05-05
- Will market reject Sun's open source vision?
- Will market reject Sun's open source vision?Sun needs to make moneyWhile it's fine to talk about "building communities" and such, I still fail to see how Open Source enables Sun to make money. Jonathan has never provided any details, rather he talks in slogans--just like a politician.This is not...
- Tags: Java development tools, Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Will tablets go the way of the Palm Pilot?
- Will tablets go the way of the Palm Pilot?I doubt it ...While tablets have gained considerable traction in the vertical industries where they could be replaced by cheaper and more convenient alternatives, they are also gaining a foothold in other industries - namely, education - where their functionality is useful...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Handhelds, tablet, Palm Inc., Palm Pilot
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Deja vu all over again on health insurance
- Deja vu all over again on health insuranceNothing's gonna happenThe same thing will happen that happens every time they talk about "health care reform". They'll make minor changes that have almost no effect and move on. The great "reforms" of the past have consisted of allowing prior healthcare...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Insurance, Nothing, health care, Deja Vu, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Doctor iPhone, I presume?
- The ClearHealth guys were so anxious to brag on their iPhone customer story they didn't even wait on the press release. Instead customer happiness guru David Uhlman dragged Shawn Bellina, CTO of Clearview Cancer Institute in Huntsville, Alabama, hiccups and all, to a quick phone conference this afternoon....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Physician, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Analogy: WOA treats symptoms, but SOA the cure for IT complexity
- "There is a very specific disease of Enterprise IT that SOA cures. It cures chronic ESSD, or Enterprise Software Stupidity Disease." Leave it to Miko Matsumura Software AG to come up with a clever analogy for all things service-oriented. Miko has been following the WOA-SOA brouhaha I...
- Tags: Patient, Information Technology, SOA, Business User, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Study calls robot the better surgeon
- A surgeon using the DaVinci robot on heart procedures gets better results, according to a University of Maryland study. (This is going to go over big at the club.) Superior Financial and Quality Metrics with Robotically-assisted DaVinci Coronary Artery Revascularization is the name on...
- Tags: Surgeon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Windows or open source is not the question
- Over at another publication an entrepreneur asks a rather silly question, whether his server-side application should be developed with Windows or open source. This is not even a question. Windows or Linux, that's a question. Closed source or open, that's a question. (Picture from Boycott Novell.) Asking...
- Tags: Mobile Linux Application, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- VistA dieing of starvation and neglect
- VistA dieing of starvation and neglect...McCain is a f*cking idiot! Gee some patriot he is, eh?"[B]Ideology, a desire to privatize all government functions. “John McCain has come out for closing the VA and giving everybody vouchers,” Longman said.[/B]"And privatizing our government... don't you people get it? When you privatize we...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Medsphere, OpenVistA CIS
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- How many doctors reject insurance?
- How many doctors reject insurance?Let's change the business modelI'm not a liberal by any means. But my past experience with well-meaning and dedicated doctors is pushing me towards advocating socialized medicine.The first doctor I went to when I moved to Virginia decided to stop taking insurance. So I...
- Tags: Financial Planning, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- How many doctors reject insurance?
- Internist Albert Fuchs doesn't take insurance anymore. (His lovely bride, shown with him here, is an immunologist.) He also wrote a guest column for the LA Times bragging about how he did it. Slowly. He first cut off the carrier who reimbursed him the...
- Tags: Fuchs, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000
- A few months back, I told you about how my neck had gone bad, really bad. At that time, I was in the middle of a six-month dive into pain, alleviated only by gobbling unwholesome quantities of Percoset. Three weeks ago last Friday, I had an amazing surgery that relieved...
- Tags: Blog, Doctor, Disc, Health Care, Surgery, Healthcare, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
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