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Will computing save health care?

Will computing save health care?Will Assistive Technology save IT?With Google or Microsoft wanting to buy into peoples' data, and house it at the most inexpensive location and not even considering local laws or identity theft (I mean, that's expensive), I don't see computing doing much help.After all, it's easy to...

Tags: computing, health care, Predictive Health

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

How far can predictive health take us?

How far can predictive health take us?Scarry.Any talk about genetics and health care always makes me nervous. If the insurance companies could figure out a way to label genetic diseases as pre existing conditions the cost savings for them would be enormous. Even graduated rates based on genetic predispositions...

Tags: Financial Planning, Vertical industries, insurance, predictive health, health care, insurance company

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

Additional Resources

Ready for the iProd?

I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you load it with answers to health-related questions, which the device uses to create a...

Tags: Monitor, Health Care, Monitors & Displays, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Universal coverage changes the debate

Once you start following countries with universal health care, it's clear that problems remain but the terms of debate shifts. Take Canada, for instance. (Please?) Questions of how much money is spent on drugs cease being academic. Government can freely decide what people can...

Tags: Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...

Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate

The knives have already come out in the fight against health care reform in 2009. On the one hand we have ideology, represented by former Rep. Dick Armey, who complains that some Republicans are getting weak-kneed in their rejection of any but the most "market-oriented" (i.e., tilted...

Tags: Physician, Ideology, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

A stick and personal care for those who can afford it

Lorne Stitsky has a dream. It's the comfortable life internists enjoyed generations ago. A small number of patients, whom he can know intimately and who will depend on him as families did way back when. You can almost hear Randy Newman's Dayton Ohio 1903 playing in the...

Tags: Patient, Dr., Lorne Stitsky, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Tiny Site Watcher (exe)

Tiny Site Watcher is a utility for monitoring the status of any Web site or computer on your network. It will alert you visually, audibly or by email whenever the site or machine fails to respond. Used principally by Web site administrators and Web developers, it can also be used...

Tags: Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Tiny Site Watcher, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-15

The death gap

The death gapCause and Effect[i]Death rates are rising from all causes — heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes — because prevention messages aren’t being heeded. We’re saving no money from this horror show.[/i]But are we looking at cause or effect? To what extent is this a matter of those who...

Tags: Vertical industries, death gap, Poor people

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

The death gap

The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young...

Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.

The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...

Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2

If you're running Windows XP and haven't yet installed Service Pack 3, Microsoft has included a few incentives that might interest networkers. First, XP Service Pack 3 provides support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), the most recent security standard derived from the...

Tags: Router, Network, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft Windows XP, Routers & Switches, Networking, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-05-14

News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day

Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...

Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Profiler for VMware (exe)

Profiler for VMware provides agentless, cross-domain visibility, management, and intelligence from applications through servers, network, and storage. Profiler enables users to visualize and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, with a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilization of physical resources...

Tags: VMware Inc., Tek-Tools Software, Profiler

Software downloads 2008-05-14

BitSlice (zip)

BitSlice is a set of readymade business components encapsulating business functionality that can be used to build business applications quickly and efficiently. BitSlice Component technology allows the developer to demarcate the application into levels of distinct functionality that could be stitched together to compose the application. The BitSlice components can...

Tags: Application, Business Application, Domain, Composite Software Systems, BitSlice, BitSlice Component Technology, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...

Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...

Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-05-13

TechNet Edge Series: Network Access Protection with Microsoft IT

Video about Network Access Protection, a new feature in Windows Server®2008 that allows you to enforce computer health requirements before allowing machines to communicate on the network. To view the entire video click here here.

Tags: Microsoft Access, Network, Information Technology, Health Care, Video, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Microsoft TechNet, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Networking, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Windows Server 2008

Videos 2008-05-13

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost

The final nail in the coffin of municipal Wi-Fi was hammered today as Earthlink pulled the plug on Philadelphia's wireless program, as the Wall Street Journal reports. "This was about a business model that simply didn't work," said Rolla Huff, chief executive of the Atlanta-based Internet services...

Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft's health vision is highly proprietary

Microsoft's health vision is highly proprietarySo, what of Microsoft's SW is not total lock-in bloatware?This is just their normal attempts to embrace, extend, and extinguish -- leveraging one monopoly to try to force their way into another one..

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health vision, Microsoft Corp., health care

Discussion threads 2008-05-13