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- Public Health Management to Be Improved by Health Data Warehouse
- The Puerto Rico Department of Health DoH needed a centralized way to track public health data, an improved process for retrieving healthcare statistics and reports, and to provide users with dynamic multidimensional analyses capabilities. With partner Nagnoi, Inc., the DoH planned a Data Warehouse for all of the island's healthcare...
- Tags: Public Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Data Management
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Provides Better Faculty, Student, and Staff Support With BMC Magic Service Desk Suite
- When its vendor stopped supporting its service desk software, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health began a search to find a new solution. By choosing the BMC Magic Service Desk Suite a previous version of the BMC Service Desk Express Suite, the school has improved efficiency, lowered costs, increased customer...
- Tags: Service Desk, BMC Software Inc., Public Health, It Management, It Services, It service Management
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- Kaiser CHR Uses SAS to Give CDC Real-Time Data Access for Vaccine Studies
- Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research CHR, founded in 1964, is a non-profit research institute whose mission is to advance knowledge to improve health. The company wanted to ensure renewed funding for research from the Centers for Disease Control. SAS provides real-time access to remote data needed to perform studies...
- Tags: Vaccine, Public Health, SAS Institute, Kaiser Permanente, Healthcare
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- HP Superdomes Support New Public Health Services in the Lazio Region
- Laziomatica, the IT and data transmission division of Italy's Lazio Regional Administration, wanted to replace 20 individual booking systems with a single integrated platform where its 5.3 million citizens could book their medical appointments. This all-purpose booking centre is called ReCUP. To make the project a reality, Laziomatica needed build...
- Tags: HP Superdome, Hewlett-Packard Co., Public Health, Business Structures, Utility Computing, Healthcare, Servers, Finance, Hardware
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- Evolution of the Remote Collaboration Tool: A Continuing Process
- Over the past six years, the authors have been developing a tool that can be used to enhance collaboration between persons who are not co-located in time and/or space. The package, now named Remote Collaboration Tool, was originally designed to enhance online learning. It has been used to augment learning...
- Tags: Collaboration, Public Health, Collaboration Tool, Tool, University Of California, Productivity, Healthcare, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Meeting US FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Requirements
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA introduced 21 CFR Part 11 (Part 11) regulations to promote wide usage of electronic technology in the life sciences industry in a way that is compatible with FDA's responsibility to protect public health. MetricStream, the leading provider of compliance and...
- Tags: software, regulation, quality management, life science, compliance, public health, MetricStream Inc., food, FDA
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Hospital Deploys Mobile Vaccination Solution to Reach Employees Where They Work
- Washington Hospital Center WHC, the largest teaching hospital in Washington, D.C., is at the vanguard of a major public health effort to raise influenza immunization rates among healthcare workers nationwide. The hospital is employing a multipronged approach to ensure a continuous increase in immunization rates among its employees, including the...
- Tags: Hospital, Mobile, Public Health, Microsoft Corp., Healthcare, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
