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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

Additional Resources

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

How Providers Can Lower Costs and Improve Patient Care Using Evidence Based Medicine

When combined, adoption of Healthcare Information Technology, the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine, and the deployment of quality initiatives, tremendous gains can be realized in the healthcare ecosystem. Technology built on Oracle's WebLogic, Web Center Interaction and other Fusion Middleware, SOA-based IT platforms have been successfully deployed in many healthcare settings...

Tags: Patient, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

White papers 2009-07-01

Drug Facts - Gold (A to Z Drug Facts and Drug Interaction Facts with Auto-Updates) 1.2 (Mobile)

Drug Facts - Gold (Ato Z Drug Facts and Drug Interaction Facts with Auto-Updates) Powered by CogniQ from Unbound MedicineThe premier drug and multi-check interactiondatabases, automatically updatedwhen you synchronize!See also: Silver |Gold | PlatinumDescriptionA to Z Drug Facts -- produced by Facts andComparisons -- provides detailed information on thousands of...

Tags: Mobile, Interaction, Medication, Unbound Medicine, Memory, Flash Memory, Handhelds, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Drug Facts - Silver (A to Z Drug Facts and Drug Interaction Facts with Auto-Updates) (Mobile)

Drug Facts - Silver (Ato Z Drug Facts with Auto-Updates) Powered by CogniQ from Unbound MedicineThe premier drug database, automatically updatedwhen you synchronize!See also: Silver |Gold | PlatinumDescriptionA to Z Drug Facts -- produced by Facts andComparisons -- provides detailed information on thousands of medications. Itprovides information on dosing, indications,...

Tags: Physician, Mobile, Unbound Medicine, Memory, Flash Memory, Handhelds, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Drug Facts - Platinum (A to Z, DIF, and RNP with Auto-Updates) (Mobile)

Drug Facts - Platinum with Auto-Updates(Ato Z Drug Facts, Drug Interaction Facts, and Review of Natural Products) Powered by CogniQ from Unbound MedicineThe premier drug information package, automatically updatedwhen you synchronize!DescriptionA to Z Drug Facts -- produced by Facts andComparisons -- provides detailed information on thousands of medications. Itprovides information...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Interaction, Health Care, Unbound Medicine, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Advances in TREKnology

In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once...

Tags: Netscape Communicator, Star Trek, Technology, Information Technology Star Trek, McCoy, E-mail Clients, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Health gets one-quarter of Obama science board seats

Health gets one-quarter of Obama science board seatsChains we can believe in...ntKnowledge -v- information -v- dataI'm happy with this development and am supportive of funding for R&D. That will generate medical knowledge and make out lives better over time. It's different than the general data in Health IT...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, knowledge, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Installing Mac OS X on a Dell Mini 9 â€" the easy way (Updated 3x)

If you're looking to get a notebook to install Mac OS X on, I recommend the Dell Mini 9. It's one of the best, no-compromises platforms according to the BoingBoing compatibility chart for netbooks running OS X and one can be yours for around $400 depending on the options that...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, MyDellMini Forum, Mini 9, SSD, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-05

The Washington Manual Surgery Survival Guide 6.0.4 (Mobile)

Prepared by residents and fellows at Washington University School of Medicine, this survival guide provides all the essential information that every surgery intern needs from Day 1 on the wards - including daily routine, rounds, chart reviews, preoperative and postoperative care, operating room conduct, radiology, critical care, and interaction with...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Surgery, Skyscape Inc.

Software downloads 2008-11-26

Microsoft to 'webify' Office (sort of)

Microsoft to 'webify' Office sort ofHow is this different from expected?Quoting the comment:Microsoft is finally doing what many have been clamoring for — making Web-based versions of its Office apps available — but in a different way than expected.[End quote]Did anyone expect an attempt to make Office on the desktop...

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

The Techie Hall of Shame

A SFGate story began this week with the all-too-familiar line--"A disgruntled computer engineer..." before going on to list the disgrace of the day, in this case virtually commandeering San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network and hacking it to deny access to top administrators. He's now locked up with a $5...

Tags: Network, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Security, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Supercomputer performs prostate surgery

A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...

Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-02

The application interface problem

I believe that almost any programming language can be used to build almost any kind of user interface, but that the closer the user interface is to the assumptions built into the language, the simpler and more efficient this component of the overall application will be. More importantly, I believe...

Tags: Application, User Interface, Tool, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-12

The three week Microhoo countdown begins...

Microsoft took off the gloves and gave Yahoo three weeks to negotiate or the software giant will launch a proxy war. In a Saturday memo, Microsoft dropped the negotiating through the media routine and delivered its message loud and clear: Come with us if you want to live. ...

Tags: Shareholder, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-05

Feeling organs via a display screen

Computerized image analysis is used to extract information from images. It can be used in medical applications to determine the size of organs or to build 3-D models of organs before surgery. For example, a PhD candidate at Uppsala University, Sweden, has developed new technology to make easier to diagnose...

Tags: Segmentation, 3D, Organ, Feedback, Visualization, Uppsala University, Image, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-10

Doctors Boost Patient Load and Still Get Home for Dinner With Microsoft-Based System

The Michigan Knee and Shoulder Institute, of Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a leading sports-medicine practice in the region, staffed by two board-certified orthopedic surgeons. Before adopting a first generation Electronic Medical Record EMR system, the institute's physicians needed to document each patient interaction in detail through paper-based notes and dictation...

Tags: Patient, Microsoft Corp., gloEMR, E-health, Microsoft Windows, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-02-08

PEPID Student Nursing Suite for BlackBerry (Mobile)

A one-year subscription to PEPID RN SCC for PDA devices using the BlackBerry OS platform. Introducing the only reference for student nurses designed and written by experienced nurses. We''ve created PEPID RN Student Clinical Companion. PEPID RN Student Clinical Companion is fully integrated into PEPID RN and is the only...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Nurse, RIM BlackBerry, PEPID LLC, PEPID RN Student Clinical Companion, Electrolyte Imbalances/ABG'

Software downloads 2008-02-04

PEPID Critical Care Nursing Suite (Mobile)

A one-year subscription to PEPID RN Critical Care for BlackBerry devices.PEPID RN Critical Care OVERVIEW PEPID and the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists NACNS have partnered to create PEPID RN Critical Care. Advanced practice nurse authors designated by the NACNS have provided the critical care content. Following PEPID''s commitment...

Tags: Nutrition, Patient, Mobile, PEPID LLC, Electrolyte Imbalances/ABG'

Software downloads 2008-02-04

PEPID Gerontological Nursing Suite for BlackBerry (Mobile)

A one-year subscription to PEPID Gerontological Nursing Suite for BlackBerry devices.PEPID RN Critical Care OVERVIEW PEPID and the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists NACNS have partnered to create PEPID RN Gero. Advanced practice nurse authors designated by the NACNS have provided the critical care content. Following Developed in partnership...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Section, RIM BlackBerry, Drug, PEPID LLC, Electrolyte Imbalances/ABG', PDAs, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-02-04