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See the heart beat in real time from outside

The Acuson SC2000 ultrasound lets a doctor watch your heart beat, in real-time, from outside your chest. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Heart, Chest, Siemens Medical, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Chip makers get serious about medical technology

After years of just letting their chips be used by medical technology companies, racking up the sales as they would in the mobile phone business, chip-makers are finally starting to compete for medical application dollars. Business Week reports that many chips designed for one application space have...

Tags: Siemens AG, Chip, Databeans, Siemens Medical, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Who deserves an MRI?

Given the enormous amounts of capital funneling into the health care system it's easy to think there must be plenty of money for equipment. There isn't. There are many hospitals, especially in poor and rural areas, that can't afford top-notch equipment. Siemens Medical is taking...

Tags: Hospital, Siemens AG, Video, Siemens Medical, Healthcare, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-27

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News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?

Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

syngo fastView VX57H31 (Windows)

syngo fastView is a standalone viewer for DICOM images provided on DICOM exchange media. It can be used on any Windows PC. Its operating concept is based on the easy-to-use syngo philosophy; Learn one - know all. syngo fastView can be used to view [IN] Dicom images on / from...

Tags: Siemens AG, CD-ROM, Microsoft Windows, Image, Consumer Electronics, DVD, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Clinical Data Warehouse Project Aims to Improve Neurotrauma Care and Research

Leaders of the University of California, San Francisco's UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center BASIC say that situation is tragic - and they've undertaken a two-year project with the University of California, Berkeley UCB, and the Intel Digital Health Group to start changing it. Efforts to integrate healthcare data sources...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Standards, Intel Corp., Quality, E-health, Mainframes, Healthcare, Business Operations, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-09-01

McAfee 'Smart, Simple, Secure' Solutions Are a Winning Combination for Cassling

Cassling is a full-line sales and service dealer for Siemens Medical Solutions, serving healthcare organizations throughout the North American Midwest. With so much of its business conducted via email, the company needed reliable yet flexible spam and virus protection. Cassling deployed McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance which made an...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Cassling, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications

Case studies 2008-07-01

Pennsylvania joins Health Information Exchange movement

Pennsylvania has become the latest state to join the rush toward Health Information Exchanges HIX, through an executive order signed by Gov. Ed Rendell. An HIE provides a framework for sharing medical records among doctors and hospitals. Often, as in the Pennsylvania case, it's pushed by industry...

Tags: Pennsylvania, Health Care, HIE, Healthbridge, eHealth Initiative, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Prevention killing the health care system

In all the debates about health care inflation the core problem is not being addressed. Ben Franklin said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and catching disease before it spreads does cut the cost of treatment. The problem is the cost...

Tags: Problem, Health Care, AdvaMed, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Siemens' Dillione is HIMSS' smartest executive

It's hard to avoid stupidity in technology, especially medical technology, where niches are established and profits have been growing for years. Janet Dillione, CEO for health solutions at Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Penn., offered HIMSS a vision of interoperability, open standards, and SOA today so far from...

Tags: Siemens AG, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Google versus the telecoms

Google versus the telecomsInfrastructure game will suck up all Google's cashThere is no better way to spend capital than investing in the infrastracture business. If Google gets into building a 700MHz network, it will be years before they can get their investment bank. There is also the handset side to...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, telecommunications, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

Will U.S. retain medical technology edge?

The flip side of our high cost medical establishment is the opportunity it affords to entrepreneurs. (Animated .gif from HSCC Ltd. of Noida, near Delhi in India.) America has a lot of medical entrepreneurs, who are inspirations to their colleagues around the world. What's...

Tags: U.S., India, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-05

Rural Doctors View Medical Images Remotely

Located in central Pennsylvania north of the capital, Harrisburg, Susquehanna Health System was founded in 1994, when three hospitals in the greater Williamsport area formed an alliance. Susquehanna Health System wanted to improve access to medical images and information for physicians who are geographically dispersed. The challenge was to enhancing...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Image

Case studies 2007-08-09

Siemens Medical Solutions Deploys Conferencing Solutions

Employing more than 41,000 people worldwide and operating in more than 130 countries, Siemens Medical Solutions-a unit of Siemens AG (NYSE: SI)-is one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry. In addition to training its staff, Siemens Medical needed a way to communicate software upgrades and technology changes...

Tags: Siemens AG, Verizon Communications Inc., Software Upgrade, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-08-01

Imaging Science Institute Bans Time and Location Constraints From Clinical Workflow

Imaging Science Institute wanted to simplify coordination of the physician-patient relationship. Their goal was to deploy a mobile solution that would permit remote involvement of physicians in examinations such as magnet resonance tomography, for example, or image processing. New software applications from Siemens Medical Solutions such as SYNGO Expert-i enabled...

Tags: Fujitsu Siemens, Physician, Imaging, Workflow, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies 2007-08-01

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

Eight more companies that made SOA happen in 2006

Last week, I cited examples of SOA work that took place over the past year at ten leading companies. Here are eight more companies that led the way with SOA, originally posted over at my SOA in Action site: Integrate back-end legacy systems: International Truck developed an SOA-based "Common Vehicle...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Blog posts 2006-12-26

Who's killing the software industry the fastest?

Who's killing the software industry the fastest?Open Source is license killer, but SOA spurs competenceBoth are disruptive, but they have very different effects:- OSS severely threatens the license revenue stream, changing the business model to use only services- SOA removes vendor lock-ins, increasing competenceOSS may indeed be a software vendor...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Web services, Enterprise software, eBay Inc., software, SOA, OSS

Discussion threads 2006-02-01

Documents show PeopleSoft feared Microsoft

Documents show PeopleSoft feared Microsoftdoc showed PeopleSoft feared m$well duh! that's like saying 2+2 = 4. does m$ ever play fair? the fear is substantiated by the unethical history of the immoral redmond company. m$ is characterized by its past actionNo antitrust for the monopoly Microsoft but antitrust for non-monopolies.It...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-06-18