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The 8 fastest growing industries in 2008
I know, I know. It's a new year and everybody and her brother has dusted off a crystal ball and is out there telling people what to expect in the coming year. If you thought I would resist the cliché, you were wrong. According to yahoo.com, there are eight...
Tags: Hospital, Human Resources, Job, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Therapy, Toni Bowers, Workforce Management
Blog posts 2008-01-02
The Erinville Maternity Hospital, Cork
The Erinville Maternity Hospital, CorkThe Erinville Hospital in Cork is one of the old maternity hospitals that were shutdown earlier this year and facilities moved to the Cork University Maternity Hospital. My wife Jacinta and I made the short journey here from Blarney many times during her pregnancy, sometimes at...
Tags: User Submission
Blog posts 2007-07-15
Topic for Paper
Hello my name is Gilberto Rodriguez and I am currently taking a class at UTSA. I have to write a research paper pertaining to IT in medicine. I know there is a lot of topics out there but I want to write about something different. If anybody has suggestions...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, gilbertr@..., hospital
Discussion threads 2007-07-03
Photos: Paging Dr. Robot, your patient is waiting
A California hospital tries out a rolling robot that lets faraway MDs interact with patients over the Internet.
Tags: Robots, robot, patient, paging, Dr., hospital, California, photograph, Internet
Image galleries 2007-05-18
Photos: Austin builds on green concepts
Big oil, step aside. City Hall, children's hospital in Texas' capital set environment-conscious design and construction standards.
Tags: HEALTHCARE, Austin, hospital, Texas, photograph
Image galleries 2007-05-15
Photos: Intel checks into the hospital
Intel and Motion Computing design a tablet-like PC specifically for medical professionals.
Tags: hospital, Intel Corp., Motion Computing Inc., PC, photograph, tablet
Image galleries 2007-02-20
A Revolutionary New Medical Advice Site Rates Doctors and Hospitals!!
Revolutionhealth.comNote, I am posting this in the Security blog because medical care is obviously an important aspect of living a secure life and also because this site is likely to be collecting a LOT of confidential information about individuals, making it a security concern.A new medical information site made it’s...
Tags: Medical Identity Theft, Security
Blog posts 2007-02-08
A Revolutionary New Medical Advice Site Rates Doctors and Hospitals!!
hardly WikipediaNo, the doctor and hospital ratings are from individuals, which is entirely appropriate in my opinion. You can't get a doctor to say anything bad about the worst hack in the same hospital so a service which lets actual patients rate doctors is vital and that is the important...
Tags: BALTHOR, Wikipedia, off-topic, hospital, Steve Case
Discussion threads 2007-02-08
Health Care - Ratio of PC Support Technicians to Devices
We are a non-profit health care org, supporting a network of 4 acute care hospitals (each 80-120 bed)with 3 large outpatient or urgicare facilities; 40-50 owned specialty and family practice sites. While there are other senior technical and engineering level teams, for this discussion I am specifically looking for ratios...
Tags: hardware, health, health care, hospital, it management, networking, PC, Ugly Dog
Discussion threads 2007-01-03
Protect medical identities: lives may depend on it
Who Pays?I work in a 300-bed hospital and we work very hard at protecting patient data. We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to achieve this and we will be spending more in the coming years. Hospitals are under tremendous pressure to keep costs down. Medicare...
Tags: compliance, feedback, hipaa, hospital, patient, security, survey, WisdomRocks
Discussion threads 2007-01-03
Life before HIPAA
I have worked in healthcare IT for most of my professionalcareer. As I look back, itÂ's becomingincreasingly difficult to remember what life was like before regulatorycompliance laws such as HIPAAwere in place. IT projects were completedmuch like they are today, where time is always of the essence and...
Tags: health care, HIPAA
Blog posts 2006-09-26
Photos: WiMax in the Amazon Basin
A WiMax tower on Parintins island connects two schools, a hospital, a community center and a university to a broadband network.
Tags: photograph, broadband, broadband network, network, Amazon.com Inc., WiMAX, hospital
Image galleries 2006-09-20
Weighing the benefits of electronic medical records
I recently read an opinion column from Dr. John Halamka, a practicingphysician at a teaching hospital, which discussed the pros and cons ofconverting from paper to electronic medical records. I found the article to be very interestingand happened to agree with most of what was written until the final...
Tags: benefit, electronic health record, electronic medical record, hospital, patient
Blog posts 2006-08-07
Best of Luck to Bob in Calgary
Best of Luck to Bob in CalgaryIn a few days, our colleague, Bob in Calgary, will be undergoing some surgery. I'm sure that everyone here at TR wishes him the all the luck in the world for the procedure and for a speedy recovery.We'll be thinking of you,...
Tags: DMambo
Discussion threads 2006-07-05
Hospitals, IT and insurance companies
Hospitals, IT and insurance companiesI hurt my wrist. I fell down go boom. I was standing at the rear of a semi-trailer that was full with bales of corrugated boxes. One 450# bale fell towards me. I put my hands out to protect myself and the falling bale hit my...
Tags: recovery, insurance company, it, medical, doctors, insurance reform, ItsTheInThingToDo, NeverBusted, off-topic, edited out, HaveFun_Peace, NB_HaveFun_Peace, Ol' NB, hospital, surgery, wrist, OnTheRopes, insurance
Discussion threads 2006-06-12
User Survey
We need to survey our users to objectively determine how much knowledge they have regarding PC usage. More importantly, we need to determine how comfortable they are with using technology in general. They will be using a new software suite and will be using what we call COWs...
Tags: GSG, hardware, hospital, patient, training, User Survey
Discussion threads 2004-10-29
Tech Tip: Implement an IPSec VPN with OpenBSD
Jonathan YardenOpenBSD has a special place in my softwaretoolbox. Although I use quite a few other open source softwaretools, OpenBSD is my Swiss Army Knife. It was one of the first freeoperating systems to include IP Security IPSec. OpenBSD canmake short work of difficult networking problems, such...
Tags: IPSec, IPSec VPN, OpenBSD
Technical articles 2003-12-08
Replacing obsolete hardware may be smarter than upgrading it
Back in 1999, everyone was scrambling to update computer hardware and software before the dreaded year 2000 computer bug struck. As we all know, the year 2000 came and went without any mass catastrophes, and the infamous Y2K glitch went down as one of the biggest hoaxes in history. I...
Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, computer, hardware, hospital, memory, software, Y2K
Technical articles 2003-07-16
Keeping ROI in sight fosters strong e-business results
As one health network's efforts illustrate, successful e-business is still possible today if you've got strong talent and business leadership support. The key is to keep projected ROI out front and in sight to ensure success.When IT executives hear the words "Internet project," it likely brings more than a bit...
Tags: ROI/TCO, Web technology, E-business/E-commerce, Recruitment & Selection, HEALTHCARE, David Southgate, network, e-business, ROI, Community Health Network, hospital
Technical articles 2002-07-29
TeamSite helps health system untangle its Web
Does your organization have a handle on its Web content? Learn how one health-care enterprise is delivering Web-based content to allow patients and medical personnel to access information quickly and easily.By Karen D. SchwartzThe doctor delivers the bad news that you need an angioplasty, and fast. Now you want to...
Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, ZDNet  , Novant Health, health care, physician, patient, hospital, Web
Technical articles 2002-06-28


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