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MSDict Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary (30): The dictionary defines terms in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, as well as in all major medical and surgical specialties. Its coverage of psychology and psychiatry, public health medicine and dentistry is unusually comprehensive. This edition includes many new entries covering the latest developments in diagnostic radiology and radiotherapy, endocrinology,...; Tags: Public Health, Mobile System, Entry, Healthcare; Software downloads 2008-04-17
One Silicon Valley firm will cash in on MRSA scare: But you wannabe day-traders are too late. The stock of Sunnyvale-based Cepheid has already more than doubled in the past six months. Cepheid makes gene-based testing systems for whatever nasty germ is fearsome right now. Their technology uses digital analysis of biochemical componets of micro-organisms as each...; Tags: Public Health, MRSA, Cepheid, Healthcare, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-28
Banning facebook could lead to unnecessary deaths: Via David Stephenson, I found this article about Toronto public health officials using Facebook to find a woman who had been possibly infected with rabies. The ironic part is that the City of Toronto bans the use of Facebook, so she had to get special permission to use it....; Tags: Facebook, Public Health, Toronto, Healthcare, Phil Windley; Blog posts 2007-09-24
Spreadsheets in Clinical Medicine - A public health Warning: There is overwhelming evidence that the continued and widespread use of untested spreadsheets in business gives rise to regular, significant and unexpected financial losses. Whilst this is worrying, it is perhaps a relatively minor concern compared with the risks arising from the use of poorly constructed and/or untested spreadsheets in...; Tags: Public Health, Spreadsheet, Productivity; White papers 2006-07-14
A Cross-Functional Service-Oriented Architecture to Support Real-Time Information Exchange in Emergency Medical Response: Real-time information communication presents a persistent challenge to the emergency response community. During a medical emergency, various first response disciplines including Emergency Medical Service EMS, Fire, and Police, and multiple health service facilities including hospitals, auxiliary care centers and public health departments using disparate information technology systems must coordinate their...; Tags: Public Health, Health Care, SOA, Emergency Response, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Healthcare, Web Services, Middleware, Security, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-07-12

Making the Case for an Interoperable, Multi-Scale Hospital/Healthcare Knowledge Domain: The U. S. General Accounting Office (GAO, 2003) recognizes the importance of a number of emerging information technologies that can be used to enhance the ability to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies. Geographic Information Systems GIS is one of the key technologies recognized by GAO. While GIS...; Tags: Public Health, Domain, General Accounting Office, GIS, Healthcare, Software; White papers 2006-03-09
HHS command center in place to deal with Katrina's health crises: Officials at the Dept. of Health and Human Services are using the high-tech Secretary's Command Center in Washington, as well as a mobile command center based in Baton Rouge to respond to the health crises stemming from Hurricane Katrina, says an article in Information Week. ...; Tags: health, public health, health crise; Blog posts 2005-09-07
Information Technology: Federal Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing Initiatives to Improve public health Infrastructure: Federal agencies have made progress on major public health IT initiatives, although significant work remains to be done. These initiatives include one broad initiative at CDC - the Public Health Information Network PHIN initiative - which is intended to provide the nation with integrated public health information systems to counter...; Tags: Public Health, Agency, Information Technology, Healthcare; White papers 2005-06-01
Information Technology: Reliable Information for Better Health: The Information Technology Committee ensures that Washington's public health professionals have access to information and technology when and where they need it - from the simple extension of e-mail systems onto handheld devices to installation of complex security functions so that data are protected. The goal is to employ appropriate...; Tags: U.S. Department Of State, Washington, Public Health, Information Technology, Health Care, Information Technology Committee, Goal, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2005-02-22
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health: Discover how a Leading public health Authority Adopted a Security Enhancing Remote-Access Solution: The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Information Systems team required a secure solution that enabled remote desktop access for faculty and staff working remotely. The solution needed to meet the school's security requirements, including HIPAA compliance, and could impose no additional burden on network staff, a requirement that...; Tags: Security, Security Requirement, Team, Public Health, Team Management, Healthcare, Management; Case studies 2004-10-28
Health Care: National Strategy Needed to Accelerate the Implementation of Information Technology: Health care is an information-intensive industry that remains highly fragmented and inefficient. Hence, the uses of information technology IT - in delivering clinical care, performing administrative functions, and supporting the public health infrastructure - have the potential to yield both cost savings and improvements in the care itself. This paper...; Tags: Public Health, Information Technology, Health Care, General Accounting Office, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management; White papers 2004-07-14
GPRA: Ensuring Performance Management: Developing performance goals and targets for health promotion and disease prevention proves difficult because public health problems and their solutions are often determined externally by societal changes and environmental events instead of by planned internal actions. Consequently, CDC's goals and measures project a broad, overarching approach that targets the underlying...; Tags: Performance, Public Health, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Performance Management, Healthcare, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Case studies
OpenEMed: Serving public health Preparedness Today and for the Future Through Open Architectural and Design Processes: OpenEMed is a distributed healthcare information system built on open-source, interoperable components based on the emerging Object Management Group OMG Healthcare Domain Taskforce interface standards. OpenEMed is currently being piloted through several collaborative initiatives among the State of New Mexico Public Health Department, the University of New Mexico Department of...; Tags: Public Health, Health Care, Los Alamos National Laboratory, OpenEMed, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations; White papers
BMC Software Case Study: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health supports 5,000 faculty members, staff members, and students with an IT staff of 40 employees. Johns Hopkins needed to replace its current end-of-life product and find a solution that could automate processes, provide timely reporting, and increase staff efficiency. Johns Hopkins short list...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Public Health, It Management, Healthcare, It service Management; Case studies
Nortel Networks Case Study: Montgomery County, PA: Located 20 miles outside of Philadelphia, Montgomery County serves a population of approximately 760,000 spread throughout 62 municipalities - making it one of the 15th largest counties in the United States. The existing FDDI data service had met County needs to date but was outdated and restricted their ability to...; Tags: Data Service, County, Public Health, Nortel Networks Corp., Healthcare; Case studies
Success Story: Louisiana Office of public health: In Louisiana, the state's Office of Public Health is the focal point for overseeing everything from preschool immunizations to emergency medical services, medical labs, and environmental health - among many other things. The office needed to support a growing range of critical public health and homeland security initiatives. The office...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Public Health, Microsoft Office, Intel Xeon, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Servers, Databases, Processors, Government, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components; Case studies
Mobile GIS Speeds Disaster Relief: Natural disasters pose serious risk not only at initial impact but also in their aftermath. Outbreaks of disease and damage to infrastructure can quickly affect public health and the local economy. Armed with experience responding to disasters and knowledge of Geographic Information System GIS technology, the North Carolina Division of...; Tags: Mobile, Public Health, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Disaster, GIS, Healthcare, Software; Case studies
GIS Empowers Emergency Response and public health Awareness: The Division of Biostatistics and Health GIS, a subset of the Public Health Statistics and Information Services PHSIS program within SC DHEC, knew it needed a way to serve its users' geographically based public health and emergency management information. With limited resources, the agency had to determine the most appropriate...; Tags: Public Health, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Emergency Response, Healthcare, GIS, Software; Case studies
BMC Case Study: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health: The IT department at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University supports 5,000 faculty members, staff members, and students. Until December 2002, they used a Computer Associates product called Service IT for their help desk and an Access database for reporting. Unfortunately, because the reporting database could...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Public Health, It Management, It service Management; Case studies
Texas Health Association Employs Telecommunications to Lessen Health Risks: Even before the events of September 11, 2001, The Texas Association of Local Health Officials, or TALHO, sought to install a telecommunications network that would allow the state to better prepare for and respond to bio-terrorism and natural disease outbreaks. It chose Cisco Gold partner Avnet Enterprise Solutions for project...; Tags: Public Health, Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Texas Health Association, Healthcare, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking; Case studies