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- Doctors, Nurses Are Mobile at Waterbury Hospital With Cisco Wireless Solution From ChimeNet
- Waterbury Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute care teaching hospital affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine, the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and the Connecticut Children's Medical Center. The Hospital was undergoing massive upgrades and needed to overhaul its wireless network, expanding coverage from two floors to all nine...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Mobile, Cisco Systems Inc., Waterbury Hospital, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Should hospitals feature a rectory?
- Should hospitals feature a rectory?I've never understood......the logic behind forcing residents to work such hours. Do they really think people who are sleep-deprived can make life-or-death decisions reliably? By all means, let's see more lawsuits.Saying it's a way for the hospitals to save money at least makes some sense (in...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, hospital
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFi
- Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFiGood hospitals are learningWhen my wife was diagnosed with acute leukemia and sent directly to the hospital for 28 days of treatment WiFi couldn't reach her room at the end of the hall. I bought a better antennae for hospital IT to install...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, hospital, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09
- Silicon.com's CIO jury ruled unanimously on the question of whether to implement Microsoft Windows Vista in 2009. The latest silicon.com CIO Jury has unanimously voted that they are not ready to invest in Microsoft's latest OS Vista. When asked if they had any plans to implement Vista,...
- Tags: CIO, CIO jury, IT management, Windows Vista, implementation, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com
- News items 2008-12-02
- Navigon 7200T
- Having to compete with the likes of Garmin and TomTom is no easy task, but Navigon is hoping to woo some new customers with the Navigon 7200T. Now, in the past, we've always commended Navigon for offering feature-rich GPS for an affordable price, but we've had issues with the spotty...
- Tags: display, GPS, Navigon 7200T
- Product reviews 2008-11-26
- Can Microsoft Surface scare patients to health?
- Can Microsoft Surface scare patients to health?MEDICAL RECORDSAlex Papas the creator and the developer of the prepaid phone card in the United States. I have just created a new medical breakthrough called The MedeFile Card. The MedeFile Card is a centralized, confidential electronic portfolio that gives you 24/7 access to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Corp., MedeFile Card, Microsoft Surface, health care, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Holding VistA's age against it
- In computing it is common to disparage old code. Old code runs on old machines. Old code is obsolete. Old code must be replaced. This common canard is being pushed by hospital IT vendors in order to dismiss, destroy, and replace the VA's VistA system. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Code, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care
- How medical device makers can improve U.S. health careIt could be that 289,241,887 less people areeasier to take care of?Population of the US: 305,682,000Population of the Netherlands: 16,440,113A minor difference to be sure.Additionally, how many people imigrate, or are illegal to the Netherlands vs the United States? Are these poeple...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Document management, INTERNET, HEALTHCARE, Netherland, DME, medical device, management system, imaging, ROI
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Fast and cheap blood tests
- Fast and cheap blood testsI'm very afraid of the technology, even when taking a shot...6 years ago, before I went to Helen Keller, located in Long Island, New York (it's a "rehabilitation center" for the deaf and blind), at Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (1997-2002; a school for...
- Tags: FSDB, Helen Keller, blood test, cheap blood test
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- How doctors may benefit from personal health records
- How doctors may benefit from personal health recordsOpening up to more than Google and MicrosoftFrom what I understand, the need for these data systems to work together is a big part of the larger electronic health record EHR challenge. It's encouraging to see Medicare tying in with existing personal health...
- Tags: E-health, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, personal health record, MedeFile Card, health care, Alex Papas, benefit
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- The key to making health IT reform work
- The key to making health IT reform workAffordability??You want affordable healthcare? Keep imposing mandates. That'll do it.Talk to the billing clerks at the Dr.'s officeSee how they feel about everyone going their own way. Then talk to the Doctor about the costs of this non-standard system.Think that's...
- Tags: Financial Planning, insurance, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Aging equipment or none at all?
- Aging equipment or none at all?Is it broken?Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the purpose served by replacing a perfectly functional IV metering system with one that's newer just because of an arbitrary 10% rule.Also note that the easy way to keep up with mandated service-life requirements is...
- Tags: old equipment
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a Mac
- Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacWell, Linux just works too. McCains campain was like going to Win3.1NT.RE: Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacHmmm. Linux "just works" if you're a Linux head. thanks for reading,David MorgensternLinuxWell we can call Cynthia Green a Suse, Ralph Nader...
- Tags: Desktops, OK Windows, Obama, Apple Macintosh, Clinton Campaign, Newsweek, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- How your Personal Health Record might save your life
- How your Personal Health Record might save your lifeHigh tech: handwriting[i]Take the readings, then enter them through the PC to HealthVault, which can share those records with the Clinic at your command.[/i]Or, alternately, take the readings and write them in a notebook and show them to your doctor without having...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, micro-PC, smart phone, phone, iPhone/Touch, personal health record
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- The health IT archipelago
- The health IT archipelagoUniversal standards are the first needIf doctors are going to spend money on a computer based system then the first thing they need to be assured of is that there will be no problem interfacing with other doctor's systems when needed. Then there is the need...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, health care, surgery, X-ray, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Highlights from NetApplications data for October - Linux market share drops
- Highlights from NetApplications data for October - Linux market share dropsIn coming!!! Linux zealots' Mass Weapn of Denial. Dodge!NT.Can you please talk about other thingsThis post is boring. It doesn't really matters if nobody want to use Linux as long as they happy. I use it and I don't really...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux Zealot, Linux, NetApplications, NetApplications data
- Discussion threads 2008-11-01
- The real health care change we need
- The real health care change we needThe HIPAA police are watchingIndeed medicine lacks quite a bit in the adoption of new tech. However, your doctor is quite correct in citing HIPAA as a big part of the problem. Unfortunately HIPAA was designed by, let's say, less technically literate folks and...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, HEALTHCARE, HIPAA, patient, patient information, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Do you have a call notification system?
- Quite a few districts have rolled out automated call notification systems in the last few years. As we become increasingly mobile, it can be harder to reach parents and students, especially post-Columbine, when time and communication are not only vitally important, but politically expedient. We're rolling...
- Tags: District, Student, Microsoft Excel, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- SEC: 18-year-old responsible for fake Jobs heart attack story
- The Securities and Exchange Commission says it was an 18-year-old who planted the fake story on CNN's iReport that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Job, SEC, Healthcare, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Finance, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Nottingham NHS Trust - Intel® vPro™ technology Looks To The Future of IT Support
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest in the UK with an annual budget of more than £500 million (US $994 million). It's also one of the busiest with 2,000 beds divided between two campuses, Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital. And as a major...
- Tags: Intel vPro, Information Technology, Intel Corp., Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Desktops, Strategy, Processors, Hardware, Management, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2008-10-22
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In this video we hear from Sudip Chahal, Principal Engineer with the Intel IT Enterprise Architecture Group, talking about a new white paper from IT@Intel, "Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms."
