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- 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
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'Brilliant move ... Duh!Brilliant move! There's already a language named M, formerly known as MUMPS. The Veterans Administration (now Dept. of Veterans Affairs) wrote its DHCP Decentralized Hospital Computer Program in M and SAIC used that as the basis for the CHCS program...
- Tags: Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., MUMPS
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- The Eclipse of open source health tools
- The Eclipse of open source health toolsColabNet and VistALet me talk about VistA.VistA though not represented in ColabNet is the current Gold Standard of HMS. There are a few characteristics that produced its success. It is written in MUMPS or "M" which allows for RAD even by users. That means...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), MUMPS, health tool, Microsoft Windows Vista, Eclipse, health care, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Medsphere now says open source will make it dominant
- Medsphere now says open source will make it dominantMumps...but I wonder if [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS#Major_users_of_MUMPS_applications]Mumps[/url] will prevail?Not a lot of Mumps programmers out there.Good startA system of the size and scope of Veterans' Administration is an excellent foundation upon which to build. There are also a fair number of hospitals and...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Medsphere, open source, MUMPS
- Discussion threads 2007-10-26
- SAP, Accenture team up on health care software
- SAP, Accenture team up on health care softwareVistA Medical Imagining/ RecordsAccenture is the former Andersen Consulting, of Arthur Andersen Enron shredding infamy. When I worked at Arthur Andersen, it had the largest health care IT consulting practice in the US, and wasn't married to any one vendor. I worked as...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, team, health care, Accenture Ltd., MUMPS, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-09-20
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- How health reform and health IT reform are linked
- Socailist Government controlGovernment to 'peasant':I know your medical history.I know when you go.I know how many ailments you had.I will ration you on treatment.This may be viewable to a potential employer.Dictator driven government by someone who will call people un-American for not wanting this, or they are a fringe when...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, collusion
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panic
- A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panicWhere to start?[i]Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose study, trumpeted on 1,000 Web sites, claimed the preservative in MMR (Mumps, Measles and Rubella) vaccines given to infants contains mercury which causes autism.[/i]Wakefield never claimed that preservatives in MMR caused autism; this may be due...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, mercury, MMR, autism
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- Legal shoe drops on vaccine-autism link
- A special master of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, dubbed the "vaccine court," ruled today that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. It does, however, usually prevent Measles, Mumps and Rubella german measles, all of which I got as a kid and all of which are extremely...
- Tags: Vaccine, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- 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
- Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversy
- Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversyGates Next ACTWhat's surprising about this?Carl Icahn thinks he knows how to run Yahoo!.The medical community has a pretty set way of choosing to adopt generalized treatments, and a lot of consideration goes to cost vs benefit. Bill will have to...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- London Healthcare Trust Boosts Vaccinations Using Business Intelligence Solution
- Wandsworth Primary Care Trust PCT is responsible for improving the health of the people living in a large area of south-west London, and has to meet a large number of government-led performance targets. After meeting with Microsoft and IT consultants 21C, the organisation gave the go-ahead for a new system...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Corp., Wandsworth Primary Care Trust, Performance Management, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?...And people wonder why I hate corporations so much! Here is a perfectly functioning system of which I am a member of as a disabled veteran and now because of greed, we have to have our services jeopardized?!This is total bullsh!t and exactly...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Maduro, Cerner Corp., health care
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- A successful Veterans Administration is dangerous
- A successful Veterans Administration is dangerousAgreedIt has not always been so. In years past the VA did an outstanding job, and it remains a very cost-effective provider. The question is whether its recent mismanagement is fixable, or endemic to its nature.Do you know any Vets receivingmedical care? I help...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Veterans Administration, medical care
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Sun, MySQL and the return of integrated solutions
- I just read the announcement that Sun has acquired MySQL for $1 Billion. Rather than just citing the facts and wishing that I was one of the founders of MySQL so that I could purchase that dream home in Florida, I'd like to consider what's really going on rather than...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?
- Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?Linux Vendor Lock-in?[i]without giving them the power to switch vendors which open source delivers naturally[/i]Is not Linux and Open Source supposed to do away with software Lock-in?Just a matter of time.Hospitals are one of the killing zones pardon the pun for proprietary software...
- Tags: Operating systems, HEALTHCARE, hospital, McKesson, open source, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- Microsoft: Better software can prevent medical mishaps
- Microsoft: Better software can prevent medical mishapsOver reach??As an critical care RN I have suffered thru too many "know it all companies" that have no background except in the medical field but do have the silly idea that they can make billions with any idea. OK, what Microsoft is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- National ID plan may have killed immigration bill
- National ID plan may have killed immigration billBill RejectionThe headline states The Senate rejected President Bush's immigration plan. It should read The Senate finally listened to the people. With 80% of the US citizenry opposed to the bill President Bush has nothing to do with it. It was...
- Tags: Ted Kennedy, National ID plan, National ID
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls
- Cory Doctorow on taming the trollsAttracting the trollsFirst let's define what a troll is. Basically it's someone who disagrees with you - they may be foaming at the mouth and raving about Win$ucks or Eunuchs (guilty ;-)) or be incapable of logical argument see Paul Murphy but essentially they...
- Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Bloggers, Cory Doctorow, troll, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Practice Fusion brings free, on demand service to physicians
- San Francisco-based startup Practice Fusion is hoping to do for medical practice management and electronic health records EHR what salesforce.com did for CRM. Practice Fusion is on demand suite of physician applications that includes practice management including claims and billing, electronic medical records, scheduling and a patient portal. ...
- Tags: Patient, Physician, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Practice Fusion, Ryan Howard, Electronic Health Records System, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- OpenBSD hit by 'critical' IPv6 flaw
- OpenBSD hit by 'critical' IPv6 flawIt still isYou can still make that claim. Remember, "Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years!" That still makes for a very good arguement of being one of the most secure operating systems.My faultI posted on...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NETWORKING, BSD, OpenBSD, IPv6, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-03-14
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