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XDent 3.7.0.0 (Mac)

XDent, available for Apple MacOS X, Linux and Windows systems, is one of the most technologically advanced products among the programs for the management of dental practice. It is designed to simplify the work of the dentist and his assistants. The immediacy and ease of use of the program lets...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Patient, Patient Data, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Patient Data Is Secure With the Help of Backup Software From Symantec

With 1,000 beds, the Helios Clinic in Wuppertal is the biggest hospital in the Bergisch-Land area in the west of Germany serving patients from many nearby regions. 26 medical departments provide the highest possible levels of medical care covering almost the entire medical spectrum. More than 2,500 people are employed...

Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Patient, Backup Software, Patient Data, Backups

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Harvard study: for healthcare, IT doesn't seem to matter

AgreeThe problem ?is mainly that computer systems are built for the accountants and managers and not built to help doctors, nurses and patients,?That totally nailed the problem. Yes, I work in healthcare and that is exactly the problem. The systems are written, installed and maintained by IT folks who are...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, HEALTHCARE, patient, health care, tool, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Guess who else is married to paper?

Another paper perilThankfully, knock on wood, I don't get sick very often.Since I hadn't been there for years, my Clinic threw away my entire medical history.Paper is a fact of life.You have to a have a paper trail, the entire concept of goingpaperless is just silliness.I am sure with the...

Tags: patient, doctors office

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Why not pay for what works?

Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

The NSW Health Department Introduces New Business Intelligence Solutions to Provide Holistic Patient-Centric Data Analysis

NSW Health manages healthcare for the state of New South Wales. It comprises 232 public hospitals across eight geographical areas, as well as numerous radiology and specialist units. NSW Health wanted to obtain holistic patient data across the continuum of care and provide hospital and area health managers with relevant...

Tags: Patient, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., NSW Health, NSW Health Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-11-08

DICOM Printer 1.6.4.1400 (Windows)

DICOM Printer permits the user to virtually print any document directly to a PACS server or to a DICOM film printer; this DICOM-enables most legacy devices that would normally have to be replaced. Just print to the DICOM Printer and your document appears in a queue. Then, from within the...

Tags: Pacs, Microsoft Windows, FLUX, DICOM Printer, Healthcare

Software downloads 2009-11-08

Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

How fast can remote monitoring move?

Ler's use mu computer and my iPhoneMay sound nuts, but my notebook mine happens to be a Mac and my iPhone have the ability to work with a lot of medical devices - IF the makers build the connectors and write the software.I can enter my blood sugars on an...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Smart phones, Doc, monitoring, patient, computer, EKG, phone, Apple iPhone, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Obamicans rebranding NHIN-Connect as the Health Internet

Hey look. A tech storyYou don't want me to write about policy so here's a tech story and we get...crickets. I guess the market is saying write more policy stories, isn't it? I'm sorry...... I'm still trying to figure out what an "Obamican" is.(But you get extra points for using...

Tags: Vertical industries, Obamicans, Health Internet, tech story, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

NHS Connecting for Health Transforms Management of Patient Data to Optimize Quality of Service Delivery

NHS Connecting for Health wanted to build a planning and management architecture for the National Programme for IT NPfIT, a US$21.05 billion (GB£12.7 billion) multiproject initiative to transform service delivery through technology and manage 10-year rollout of NPfIT to over 300 hospitals (270 general, acute hospitals) in England to give...

Tags: Patient, QoS, Hospital, Oracle Corp., Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-11-01

HealthSouth Corporation Strengthens Financial Visibility and Accelerates Monthly Closing

HealthSouth Corporation wanted to improve companywide visibility of financial data as part of HealthSouth's reorganization and relisting to the stock market and automate financial, budgeting, and human resources processes. The challenge was to accelerate monthly reporting, annual budgeting and planning and consolidate reporting by combining data and information from patient...

Tags: HealthSouth Corp., Financial, Human Resources Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-11-01

Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Web 2.0 Summit video: GE shows off mini ultrasound device

Not uniqueSonoSite makes a similar product. As part of a an upgrade of portable ultrasound used by the PA's to place central lines in a hospital chain, SonoSite reps used their latest & greatest product at the bedside on my patient who has known abnormal subclavian vein issues that...

Tags: video, SonoSite, CPR, patient, General Electric Co.

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

A billion streamed videos per day, $0 in bandwidth costs

A professionalA professional would be able to help design the sexiest dress. There are several online outlets that sell beautiful prom dresses . These websites also provide information about choosing the right kind of prom dress and also help to design one. These include dresses from popular designers like Jovani,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Routers & switches, Network technology, bandwidth cost, dress, Google Inc., Daisy, video

Discussion threads 2009-10-17

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

T-Mobile offers Sidekick customers $100 credit, is that enough to retain them all?

Lets see those T-Mobile Customer Service figures againSomehow Sprint or even MetroPCS don't seem too shabby anymore. Personally, if I just lost all my data from my cell company's incompetence there is no way in hell I'd stay with them. They'd have to give me that android phone and comp...

Tags: T-Mobile, SideKick, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

GGZ NHN Improves Performance and Availability of McKesson's Electronic Patient Dossier Horizon GGZ

GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord GGZ NHN wanted to improve primary system performance and stability of McKesson's electronic patient dossier, Horizon GGZ, and enable interactive operations by users while the organization runs batch processes, including monthly invoice runs and improve availability during planned and unplanned outages. The challenge was to achieve a more...

Tags: Patient, Oracle Corp., Performance, GGZ NHN, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

Jeju University Hospital Improves System Performance, Eliminates Network Downtime

Jeju National University Hospital is a teaching hospital, which was established in November 2001. Korea's Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs recognized the hospital as a specialist intensive care and emergency institution. Over recent years, the amount of electronic patient records that needed to be managed and archived had...

Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Performance, Network, Downtime, Jeju National University Hospital, E-health, Healthcare

Case studies 2009-10-01