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Bill Gales was the curator this year for the Long Beach Convention and when it was his turn to talk he addressed budgets and the need for better education. Bill Gates Serving as “Guest” Curator for the Annual TED Conference In March 2011 Also one of my favorites is returning Juan Enriquez who speaks...
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Fri, Mar 4 2011
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Back in October of 2010 I wrote about Skinput and thought it was the solution for input and that was before Kinect came along and it still could be a mobile solution with using one’s arm for both control and data. Kinect of course allows gesture control. We are not to the point of carrying...
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Thu, Mar 3 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Computers, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Mouse, projector, keyboards, Gaming, data inpt, Carnegie Mellon
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This is quite an interesting device here with the MD2GO from Sony and Microsoft collaborated with some software features to make it a bit more interesting it seems, but has a purpose. I can see what Chris Sullivan (his blog summary below) got to do at HIMSS, have fun and take pictures all day. ...
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Tue, Feb 22 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Heatlhcare, Hosptial, Sony, camera, HD, images, microphones, Chris Sullivan, HIMSS, MD2GO
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Is this the year of the developer or what? Everyone is looking for coders and Windows Mobile has announced their contest for healthcare/life sciences applications for the platform. I still keep thinking about the Mobile X-Box application too that comes with the new platform, so perhaps there...
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, clinical trials, Developers, Coding, Life Sciences, mobile technology, progammers, Widows Mobile, X-Boxes
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Microsoft Business Intelligence for Healthcare with Amalga will be hosted by Dell for the hospital chain to help the hospitals manage information and data. Compliance and safety standards will be easier to manage and being it is hosted by Dell who is already doing business with the hospitals, the...
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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This stands to be a big plus for radiologists to be able to use a single click to access patient records in Microsoft Amalga with a single sign on capability now being extended for imaging. Currently in many hospitals radiologists have to navigate several screens to view and read the additional...
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, PACS, Radiology, Amalga, Phillips, Data, Single Sign On, iSite, aggreation, Royal Phillips Electronics
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The toilet is not the only area of exposure to water but it seems to be one of the most common areas of exposure for cell phones today, yes we all take our phones in there from time to time don’t we? The video below is a demonstration of how the coating process works and no it’s not in a...
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Wed, Feb 16 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, cell phones, Heatlhcare, mobile technology, communications, phones, liquid repellent, water proof, moisture, nano coating, P2I
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Occasionally I like to include some time saving updates with Outlook Add Ins or other software that others may find useful. I live in Outlook and so do many others out there so if you are tired of typing the same things over and over, or having to search for a prior email to copy and paste, this...
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Sat, Feb 12 2011
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Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Outlook, Email, Templates, Outlook add on, Text Lightning, inbox
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I am just going to address here how you as a a consumer get set up through HealthVault. As Sean has mentioned on the blog, there will be more information coming out for providers to get set up from their end. Now he says it’s simple, well simple for him to say…you can read through...
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Sat, Feb 12 2011
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Back in January the University of Washington was working on this hack and now we have a video from Johns Hopkins where they have simulated a surgical procedure using gestures. As the article states this is in the early stage here, but it’s been done and seems to be working pretty well during play...
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Fri, Feb 11 2011
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Back a couple years ago I had a discussion with Mike Naimoli and that was when Azure services were just introduced so by reading his update you can see how fast things are developing with using the cloud. Microsoft Azure cloud has moved along and you can read his entire post at the link below and...
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Fri, Feb 11 2011
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This video was made by the folks over at Microsoft Channel 9 back in 2006 and it is entertaining as well as educational with a scenario of a group of hackers that break into the system of the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas. Granted since this video was made security upgrades have been numerous and many...
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Fri, Feb 11 2011
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This certainly got my attention with as much writing as I have done relative to Microsoft Tags, the 2D bar coding and the fact that they should in fact be using this software to help consumers, doctors and everyone along the line to find recalled items as well as offer educational information as well...
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Wed, Feb 9 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, drugs, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Devices, Personal Health Records, Fraud, Scanning, labels, Data Base, Microsoft Tags, Bar Codes, 2D Bar Code, fiber optics
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The first comment I have here is that this is better than sitting around playing games on Facebook and might as well put it to use for good sharing and collaboration. Like minds and people want to get together. The goal here is to increased social and academic integration can boost student's...
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Wed, Feb 9 2011
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We all probably know by now about the health insurance exchanges coming in to play by the year 2014 and of course prior to that time there’s a lot of data work and organization for setting them up. Microsoft announced a turn key solution working with Microsoft and Microsoft Partners to help get...
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Tue, Feb 8 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Health IT, Microsoft Partners, Azure Platform, Microsoft HIX solutions, databases