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- 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
- Loan Servicing and Management Software Gets a Boost From Visual Basic .NET
- Midland is a leading third-party provider of servicing and technology solutions for the commercial real estate finance industry. Midland had a variety of third-party applications running on several different platforms and technologies. Its existing Enterprise system was based on the Microsoft Windows DNA architecture. After evaluating other options, Midland standardized...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Midland, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, .Net, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- News to know: IE 8; Big storage; Gnome 2.2; Apple; Acer; Tech lobbying
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Will IE 8 break the Web? Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations There's more than one way to make Microsoft software 'serviceable' Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Yahoo! Inc., Storage, GNOME, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., Channel Management, Virtualization, Internet, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- midland hospital proves open source savings
- Midland hospital proves open source savingsMS execs arrive via emergency entranceOne having a cardiac on the news, the other blabbering something about TCO.How big is that hospital?We are implimenting an EHR this year and between equipment and software licensing, i am at 1.5 million for pharmacy, dental, family, peds, ob...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, TCO, hospital, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- 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
- Dow Corning Uses Enterprise Rights Management to Help Protect Intellectual Property
- Dow Corning is a global leader in silicon-based technology and innovation. The company is based in Midland, Michigan. Dow Corning needed to make it easy for employees to share information while following the company's information protection policies, which dictate how intellectual property must be protected. The company deployed Active Directory...
- Tags: Corning Inc., Rights-management, The Dow Chemical Co., Intellectual Property, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Research & Development, Business Operations, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-27
- Drowning in an information sea
- Drowning in an information seaNASA studyRemember that the main issue NASA had with releasing that study was that its results are meaningless, as the study failed to eliminate double- or triple- or more reporting of incidents. What's most embarrassing is that so much money was spent on a study with...
- Tags: Government, Food & Beverage, information sea, meat, dairy, food, bureaucrat, pyramid, grain
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Mandriva...Not just for Classmates
- Mandriva...Not just for ClassmatesMandriva / MandrakeI have used Mandriva since it was Mandrake 7.1. It is the only Linux distro that is usable out-of-box.SUSE is probably the second and the worst is Fedora/RedHad nothing works without lots of extra work.I don't mention Ubuntu because it is UNSTABLE. Being base...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Desktops, SuSE, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, Fedora Project, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Medsphere reboot is complete with Doyle hire
- Medsphere completed its re-boot yesterday by announcing the hire of new CEO Michael J. Doyle from AHS, an online billing company. The hire makes good sense. The weakness of Medsphere, which began with the VA's public domain VistA software, always lay in the billing area. Since the...
- Tags: Hospital, Billing, Automation, Medsphere, AHS, Open Source, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Why the ban on mandatory RFID implants should be Federal
- Why the ban on mandatory RFID implants should be FederalWho is requiring an implant?Can you please cite some examples of actual companies requiring RFID implants?Lastly, do you honestly think employees will be rushing to work for a company that requires one?If you really want to get yourself into a tizzy,...
- Tags: RFID Implant, RFID, mandatory RFID implant
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Medsphere begin again
- Two years after throwing over its founders and making a public domain code base proprietary, Medsphere is seeking a new CEO and a new start with the open source movement."The community edition licenses are on the Web site – we have a version under Mozilla and then we have a GPL...
- Tags: Applications, Database Management, General, Implementations, Legal, management, Software Licensing, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Outsourcing The News
- Outsourcing The NewsJournalistsDon't make me laugh. For at least ten years now, journalism has been reduced to cut-and-paste editing of the newswire reports.Yeah, but...This is a worthwhile subject to consider. The money-driven media that we have now dances to the tune of their advertisers, and even PBS with...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PBS, media, Professional Journalist, advertiser, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Google Apps finds Microsoft Office friend
- Google CEO Eric Schmidts dream of a happy Google Apps--Microsoft Office ending in the universal cloud may be making headway, in Midland, Michigan, at least.A fiscal drama is unfolding in the city, "Midland school outsourcing decision nears."OurMidland reports:Midland Public Schools needs to reduce next year’s budget by at least $5...
- Tags: Google Software Applications, Business Models, Microsoft, Google Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Is Medsphere taking it back?
- Is Medsphere still an open source company, or is it trying to turn public domain software into something proprietary? And can you run a company open source when the cost of making a sale is astronomical, but the price you must charge for support (to compete against do-it-yourself efforts) is...
- Tags: Medsphere, Applications, Development, Implementations, Legal, Infrastructure, Distributions, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Gothic 3 demo (zip)
- You have saved the island Khorinis from the forces of evil in Gothic I and Gothic II. Now it is time to travel to the realms of the mainland. Invading Orcs have enslaved the human kingdom. There are but a few free humans in the icy north and the southern...
- Tags: Aspyr Media Inc., Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-11-16
- Ballmer on Microsoft's persistence: The bone doesn't fall out of our mouth easily
- Ballmer on Microsoft's persistence: The bone doesn't fall out of our mouth easilyYou forgot to mentionAnd monopolizing and monopolizing and monopolizing and monopolizing. ;)I once heard......that Archer Daniels Midland won't even enter a market unless they think they can dominate it (at least 60% market share) in a short...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft Corp., security, Microsoft .NET, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2006-10-10
- One customer to unleash the flood
- When it comes to enterprise software, it's always that first customer which is the toughest. Prove your claims once, and the world may beat a path to your door.Open source can play that game, too.The subject here is Medsphere. I've written about them before. Their OpenVista technology was originally developed...
- Tags: hospital, Medsphere
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- How the undermining of US intelligence continues in cyberspace
- How the undermining of US intelligence continues in cyberspacePolitical correctness is part of safety...I'm not arguing with you so much as trying to shift the emphasis a tad. We need friends, allies, and for the world to understand that the US is trying with varying degrees of sucess to treat...
- Tags: Federal government, Outsourcing, FBI, Political Correctness
- Discussion threads 2005-08-29
- 'Halo 2' clears record $125 million in first day
- 'Halo 2' clears record $125 million in first day$$Yay for Microsoft.XBox, a failure?I remember when the people said, MS will never will be sucessful on the gaming market, they will only be 2 or 3 years at most, etc. I would like to know what those people think...
- Tags: Games, game, Halo 2, first day, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-11-10
- SCO, BayStar resume squabbling
- SCO, BayStar resume squabblingSCO = M$hill joke.And the GPL was just declared legal in Germany..BayStar, Give It Up !!! . . . You've been had . . .Take what you got - and be happy. You are unlikely to get anything else from those sniveling SCO crooks.YOU'VE BEEN...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., BayStar, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-07-23
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