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- BidShift uses Saas to right nursing shortage
- Every trade show I attend features little gems, and HIMSS 2008 is no exception. One such gem is BidShift, which is tucked behind the giant Cerner booth. It's Software as a Service SaaS applied to the nursing shortage. Here's how CEO Graham Barnes right explained...
- Tags: Hospital, Nurse, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Give nurses the checklist
- Give nurses the checklistFirst someone must ask them in...The creation of the checklist must be directed by doctors and administrators, with input from nurses. That's the only way it's valid. The nurses, however, need to be empowered to enforce the protocols, as they are informally empowered now. As my sister...
- Tags: hospital doctor, nurse
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Give nurses the checklist
- A New Yorker feature this week on intensive care units ICUs detailed the problems Peter Pronovost right is having getting a life-saving procedure -- the checklist -- adopted by doctors and hospitals. The magazine has chosen not to place the story online but it reads like a movie...
- Tags: Checklist, Nurse, Magazine, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- New York Times: I.M. Generation Is Changing the Way Business Talks
- As I've been saying, voicemail is dead. Sun's Tim Bray even says internal e-mail is dead (I don't agree atall -- not in a global company where people are asychronously available...doesTim not sleep?). Still, instant messaging is taking over.Nowa generation of office workers who...
- Tags: I.M.
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- VoIP: a matter of life and death
- I just had a fascinating conversation with a couple of IT guys who work for a new community hospital in Southern California. I can't name the facility just yet, but I may be able to in a few weeks.Anyway, they were telling me that VoIP is far and away the...
- Tags: doc, nurse, telephone, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-03-18
- QUALCOMM Case Study: Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey
- The 105-year-old Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey VNANNJ is a 350-employee provider of home healthcare, therapy, adult daycare and related services - primarily to elderly Medicare patients. VNANNJ wanted field nurses to be able to sync patient data in real time, without tying up their own home phone...
- Tags: Patient, Nurse, Qualcomm Inc.
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- Intel productizes health monitoring
- Intel productizes health monitoringThat's what I've long thoughtI think this is a bigger deal than the release of the Apple iPhone 3G. But that's just me.WOW...finally something USEFUL.......instead of just hosing us for music, movies and games.Intel productizes health monitoringDana, just need a bit of clarification. Would this replace...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health monitoring, health care, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- What putting off health care means
- What putting off health care meansPreventionI used to get severe headaches occasionally migraine whenever the weather changed. If a thunderstorm was coming, I would get a bad headache. When the weather was turning nice again, I would get a severe headache. I had a couple of dental...
- Tags: Vertical industries, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?
- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?Great Idea will hospitals buy it thoughThe chair seems like a great idea but i wonder if hospitals will put the puse before the nurse.I don't know...That's the great thing about entrepreneurship. There must be some facilities who can afford these...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Entrepreneurship, wheelchair
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Carena creates corporate concierge health service
- Here's another way to healthier employees. You give them a phone number. They call when someone in the house is sick. A nurse can walk a patient through first aid, make sure they get to an emergency room, or have a doctor come visit. ...
- Tags: Patient, Health Service, Doctor, Health Care, Carena, Mike Viles, Wiles, Patient Interaction, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Purrfect Pet Shop (exe)
- Purrfect Pet Shop puts you in charge of an animal adoption center, caring for strays as they arrive and matching them with the perfect owner. Nurse your own customizable dog or cat back to health, choosing from thousands of possible combinations. Earn the animal's trust with toys, careful grooming and...
- Tags: Adoption, GameFools, Purrfect Pet Shop, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-05-05
- All pharmacies will soon be clinics
- The obvious success of in-store clinics at CVS and Wal-Mart has created a stampede to launch nurse-run sites in pharmacies nationwide. (Picture from Dr. Toni Brayer's EverythingHealth blog.) And the stakes are rising fast, with doctors now heading to a strip mall near you. ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Pharmacy, Health Care, CVS Corp., Rite-Aid, Wal-Mart Clinics, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reform
- A map of Massachusetts does look like a snub-nosed revolver pointed at the rest of the nation. (You can buy a flash version of this map for just $14.95 from Maps4.com.) In the case of health care reform that's an apt metaphor. Fact is...
- Tags: Massachusetts, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- On living with your doctor
- Aerotel has announced the GeoSkeeper, a Global Positioning System-enabled, wrist-mounted unit that alerts a call center when you press its panic button. The call center can also track your position and raise an alert when you leave predefined zones such as your school. In addition to the GeoSkeeper (can you...
- Tags: Doctor, Monitoring, Health Care, Aerotel, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Call Centers, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, It Operations, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Checking the clock for DST is a good reminder for tech product expiration dates
- Various groups use the twice-yearly daylight savings time shift as a reminder to check product expiration dates. While most are about things we eat, drink and apply to ourselves, there are a few items we might want to check in the technology department, including flash cards. My...
- Tags: Card, Solution, Battery, Expiration Date, Camera Battery, Engineering, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Cardiology Service Sees Gains in Efficiency, Core Measures With Data Aggregation
- Cardiology clinicians used all of the powerful image technologies driving advances in heart care - coronary angiograms, echocardiograms, CT, MRI, and nuclear PET scans. Typically, such images were stored in systems far from the patient unit, so physicians and nurse practitioners had to leave the patient's bedside to see them....
- Tags: Patient, Cardiology Service
- Case studies 2008-02-21
- NetSuite's numbers are not what they appear
- NetSuite's numbers are not what they appearOfficial response from NetSuite to inaccurately cited customer dataDennis, some points of clarification:1. On our call and in our filings we talk about active customers. Customers are not considered "active" until they go live with the product. Since customers choose their own...
- Tags: Blogging, Dennis Howlett, NetSuite Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Short of staff, Norway eyes robot care for elderly
- Short of staff, Norway eyes robot care for elderlyRobot salary?How much do the municipalities plan to pay the robots for all of this hard daily work? Will they strike if union demands aren't met? Real questions for real practical issues.thanks.RE: Short of staff, Norway eyes robot care for...
- Tags: Robots, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, robot, eyes robot, government, tax, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Immunity launches exploit for 'unlikely' Windows worm hole
- Immunity launches exploit for 'unlikely' Windows worm holeRE: Immunity launches exploit for 'unlikely' Windows worm holeWow! Windows has an exploit? One that is exploitable? Really??? No way! Not the "great Microshaft" that we have all come to know and hate! Come on Microsoft! ...
- Tags: SECURITY, Nothing, Windows worm hole, worm hole, Microsoft Windows, exploit
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
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