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IBM's push into medical services

We've posted a whitepaper from IBM touting their engineering expertise to hospitals. Simple site registration leads you to the PDF file. The gist is that IBM can link all those new imaging devices you're getting to your hospital network through its Engineering & Technology Services unit. ...

Tags: System Integration, IBM Corp., Gist, Radiology, Scanners, Healthcare, Hardware, Peripherals, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-27

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I went to Cape Cod and all I got was a minor spinal injury and this cool image viewer

Yes, Jason Perlow really does have a brain. Click on the image above to zoom in. This week my wife Rachel and I drove up to Cape Cod, Massachussets, for some long needed rest and relaxation, with some gratuitous lobsters and clambake...

Tags: CD-ROM, Tools & Techniques, Consumer Electronics, Linux, Management, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-22

MSDict Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary (exe)

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

Eclipse co-founder Skip McGaughey on Open Health mission

Skip McGaughey, who was the original co-chair of the Eclipse Foundation while at IBM, has a new mission, to bring that same open source collaboration to health care. McGaughey, who has been based in Asheville, NC since launching Eclipse, is the first head of the Open Health...

Tags: Health Care, Eclipse, Standards, McGaughey, OHT, Kestrel, Terminology People, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Using arsenic to detect cancers?

An international team led by Texan researchers is using arsenic as a powerful tumor imaging agent. In fact, they are using a drug called bavituximab, 'an antibody that homes in on a specific molecular target on the blood vessels that feed tumors.' By linking this drug to very small doses...

Tags: Rat, Combination, Technique, Imaging, Blood Vessel, Document Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-03

BidShift uses Saas to right nursing shortage

Every trade show I attend features little gems, and HIMSS 2008 is no exception. One such gem is BidShift, which is tucked behind the giant Cerner booth. It's Software as a Service SaaS applied to the nursing shortage. Here's how CEO Graham Barnes right explained...

Tags: Hospital, Nurse, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-25

The art of making science at the High Risk Plaque Initiative

Science long ago stopped being an individual endeavor and became a team sport. But to do big science, you need more than a team. You need an alliance, with all the political and social implications of that term. A good example of this new...

Tags: Science, Team Management, IPO, Venture Capital, Business Structures, Investment, Strategy, Management, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-30

A new look at virtual autopsies

Using computed tomography CT scans for autopsies is not new. This kind of exam is routinely practiced in several countries read this for example. But except for some autopsies of American soldiers, this technology is not really used in the U.S. This might change now that the Radiological Society of...

Tags: Computed Tomography, Examiner, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Protecting EMRs, Data Privacy and Hospital Interconnections

Rapidly expanding interconnections are a fact of life as healthcare providers expand access to EMRs and other data by physicians, nurses, transcription services, and radiology interpretation services, and staff members connect via laptops and mobile devices. Security and privacy concerns are growing as well. Touchstone Behavioral Health staff members work...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Privacy, Interconnection, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Security

Webcasts 2007-11-29

Softway Medical Relies on Symantec for Centralized Backup Solution

Is it possible to imagine the Paris Radiology Institute with its entire IT system down or losing its entire store of computerized patient data? Simply not. Yet this is a potentially perilous situation facing all health professionals. Conscious of what's at stake, Softway Medical - a publisher and integrator of...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Patient, Backup, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2007-11-16

Critical Infrastructure Security for Healthcare Providers

The Best Practices Series for Health Care discusses the challenges that healthcare providers face in information technology - and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper, in particular, focuses on critical infrastructure security. Practices and services implemented by healthcare providers today that improve quality of care, decrease costs,...

Tags: Health Care Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2007-11-01

DicomLand Print Driver (exe)

Your RIS Radiology Information System report is not burned together with the PACS study image when you export the procedure to CD/DVD? Do you need to attach any existent document (Word, Excel, Html, Pdf) to a PACS study? Dicomland Print Driver is a Printer that allows you to print any...

Tags: Pacs, Dicomland Print Driver, Healthcare

Software downloads 2007-09-05

Contradictory trends abound in hospital messaging

No IT environment has more contradictory forces pulling on it than that of a hospital.On the one hand hospitals routinely prevent patients from making cellular calls, and monitor outgoing as well as incoming message traffic.On the other hand, they're being pressed to build Web 2.0 systems which empower both doctors...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, hospital, patient, messaging

Blog posts 2007-08-22

SaaS is quick way to medical automation

SaaS is quick way to medical automationOh Yeah baby..“They’re trying to sell a health care application, and the customer is asking questions about Ethernet cable degradation. This makes it exceedingly difficult unless we’re with them. We can answer that. We actually have an Ethernet cable replacement policy.”Man, We walked in...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Network technology, Clean Up, health care, SaaS Model, automation, medical automation, cable, Healthcare Delivery, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2007-08-18

SonicWALL Case Study: Radiology Ltd

Radiology Ltd. wanted to provide its network of referring physicians, radiologists and employees, and vendors with remote access to healthcare, HR and business applications. The challenge was to safeguard confidential healthcare information to comply with strict government and HIPAA regulations. Radiology Ltd. deployed SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SSL VPN to provide...

Tags: SonicWall, Aventail Corp., Remote Access, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2007-08-01

A swimming robot -- inside your body

The Boston Globe describes the efforts of a Japanese-born scientist to develop new technologies for use in surgery. His last project is to build a swimming robot designed to explore the human gastrointestinal tract GI tract from esophagus to colon. This 2-centimeter long robot will have a swimming tail to...

Tags: Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Bridging the Technology Gap With HP Integrity Solutions for Radiology: Winning With HP Integrity Running Linux and Siemens Syngo Workflow

When choosing the best technology to support the requirements of a 21st century RIS, HP Integrity servers running Linux deliver the outstanding performance and economics needed to supercharge critical radiology applications while reducing total cost of ownership. HP offers unparalleled depth knowledge and experience in Linux and the 64-bit HP...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Siemens AG, Workflow, Linux, Process Improvement, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2007-04-01

Valencia Speeds Healthcare With Connected Imaging Solution

Valencia Health Ministry wanted to provide wide-area access to radiological and other specialised medical imaging types and create Electronic Patient Records EPR with access to diagnostic images and medical history. The challenge was to ensure conformity with EU regulatory requirements on patient confidentiality. ARTERIAS - an end-to-end network covering entire...

Tags: Imaging, Health Care, Cisco Systems Inc., Connected Corp., Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2007-01-01

Can open source save your life?

Hospitals are the toughest nut to crack in the IT business. The systems they need are complex. They must be highly-networked, and they have to deal with tons of regulations. A hospital of 75-200 beds will pay as much as $18-20 million for a new IT system. Many do...

Tags: Scott Shreeve, Medsphere

Blog posts 2006-06-05

Securing Healthcare With Taceo

Operating a medical practice is assiduous work requiring great attention to detail on a variety of fronts. Patient privacy has always been an important concept in the medical profession. One of the most time and labor consuming tasks in maintaining an electronic medical record is importing non-digital patient information such...

Tags: Patient, Health Care, Essential Security Software, Patient Privacy

White papers 2006-06-01