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- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...
- Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...
- Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Open source tries again with health care
- Last year was the worst of times for open source in health care. The undercapitalized Medsphere had to reorganize after tossing its founders for daring to treat their open source promises seriously. Misys tossed some code over the side and called it an open source strategy. ...
- Tags: Health Care, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Can Tolven give Medsphere the lift it needs?
- Medsphere's efforts to revolutionize hospital computing with an open source code base (derived from the VA's VistA system) got a big boost at HIMSS with news it would partner with Tolven Inc. The reason is only now becoming apparent. Tolven's founders, most of them former Oracle executives, have...
- Tags: Medsphere, Tolven Inc., TolvenHealth, Tolven Institute, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Red Dog: Yet another unannounced Microsoft cloud service
- In the Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie regime of "announce no service before it's done," there have been precious few cloud-computing announcements from Microsoft. That doesn't mean Microsoft is sitting on its software laurels, just waiting for the clouds to pass, however. There are a bunch of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- User perceptions and student jobs
- User perceptions and student jobsSummer ChallengesThe biggest challenge for summer interns is that of utter boredom. Usually the company has a policy of hiring summer interns, while the departments have NO policy on what to do with them. I remember well my first summer intern job, where I worked at...
- Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, IT Student, summer intern, information technology, student job
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- 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
- Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home Server
- Microsoft's biggest lemon - Windows Home ServerI was thinking of buying this until this article.At home we have 2 PC's and 3 laptops. I have a NAS drive for common storage, and a tiny print server to share the printer.I was thinking of getting WHS purely because it is a...
- Tags: Printers, Servers, Operating systems, data corruption bug, server, lemon, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, printer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Computer science departments expanding focus and enrollment
- Computer science departments expanding focus and enrollmentNiche MarketingI suppose this makes sense but only as long as the skills being taught are valuable to employers. CS and CIS departments should look for in demand and future demand skills and fill those. If they happen to stumble across some niche to...
- Tags: Outsourcing, PRODUCTIVITY, computer science, Computer Science Department, enrollment, offshoring, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Tri-Service General Hospital & HP: Expanding Healthcare Business
- Tri-Service General, one of the largest health systems in Northern Taiwan, has implemented HIS, LIS, PACS, CIS & RFID for accurate patient identification & faster, better service delivery.
- Tags: Hospital, Hewlett-Packard Co., Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- Windows Home Server fan club beats me up for asking if WHS is Microsoft's next flop
- Literally within minutes of each other strangely coincidental, I received two e-mails -- one from a colleague and the other from someone who concealed their identity -- that basically told me I was out of line for questioning the chances that Microsoft's Windows Home Server will succeed. My colleague...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Flamingkittens, Sue, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- 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
- The road to Web 2.0 goes through SOA, but how?
- A new survey, reported here, finds that most executives see SOA as a key enabler to effective use of Web 2.0 technologies and approaches. The survey of 330 companies in 11 European countries, sponsored by BEA, found that 55% view SOA as "the best way to...
- Tags: Web, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Virtual Machine Software - Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
- Virtual Machine Software - Failing to Plan is Planning to FailA Machine is a MachineWhen was the last time someone said E-Commerce? 1998? Commerce is commerce.A Machine is a Machine--virtual or physical--so treat them the same way.Leverage existing processes like Change & Release Management.Use and enforce Security Policies and Compliance.Check...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization, Virtual Machine Software, virtual machine
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- What scares doctors about technology
- What scares doctors about technologyProcess UniformityMost companies that serve the public such as McDonald's strive for process uniformity. Such uniformity ensures consistent outcomes across multiple client encounters and geograhpic locations.Healthcare services delivery is still very much a "cottage industry" in many ways, with each provider delivering care using their...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, physician
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- 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
- Composite Software tackles the speeds and feeds angle of SOA
- As the amount of enterprise data explodes, so does the need to access this data from disparate and widely flung sources, increasing the market for data integration and management.Composite Software this week announced a major release of its Composite Information Server CIS, as well as a Composite Active Cluster, designed...
- Tags: Web Services, Software Infrastructure, SOA architect, SOA, management, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, datacenters, BI
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Start-up looks to open source as business model
- Start-up looks to open source as business modelRegarding CISI think this is an interesting blending of open source and proprietary dource development methodologies. You have collaboration, but with a twist. The abiguity of whether the software will be free, once developed, is likely to raise the ire of some open...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
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