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Interesting video from Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and the Discovery Channel on how health care will be in the not too distant future. I tripped out a bit on the toothbrush taking my pulse here, but as the video states, these are all thing either here now or in development. BD ...
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This is hot stuff! Recently I had an in depth interview with Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Scientific Officer at Helicos discussing genomics and where the future is going. Helicos has the software and the genomics machine, and wouldn't this be a nice addition to run on Surface. This...
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08-27-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, Hospital, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Surface, Cardiology, Touch Screen, HIMMS, Surface Technology, Helicos, Heart Transplant, MSDN, Scripps, Healthblog
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It will be interesting to see when Seinfeld and Bill Gates get together on ads and commercials. All we need now is to add a little "Konan" and we would have non stop laughter. Everyone today is increasing their advertising coverage and Microsoft is doing the same. BD ...
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The offer has returned. You will need an email address with an edu extension to qualify as well as being enrolled as a student. Visit the website for more details. It runs for quite a long time, until December 31, 2010. Normal price is 10 times $59.99, so this is quite a deal...
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The videos are well worth watching as well as fascinating. These are not just "techs" working at the labs, they are physicians, PHDs, etc. that are working on the healthcare items. These are just a few screen shots from the videos. There's all kinds of interesting projects...
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08-18-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, PACS, Radiology, software, DNA Testing, HIV Research, Microsoft Labs
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The software will allow doctors to work with the images on standard PCs or PDAs. No more having to depend on a web browser if you need local access. According to the comments and reviews this one definitely worth a look if you are in radiology. The continuity and smoothness of performance...
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08-14-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Tablet PC, PACS, Radiology, Medical Imaging, Mobility, Tablet-PC
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If you like Surface, you will no doubt love Sphere. Ok is this the next way to view radiology images or electronic medical records? Sure could be interesting and hey why not some global e-prescribing while we are at it (grin). It could certainly make for a very interesting document...
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This can be handy if you don't have one of your favorite devices handy to locate places to east, movies, etc. So far there are 5 locations that are set up. BD WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 13, 2008 — Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and Microsoft Corp. today...
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If you use Outlook and a Tablet PC , this is a must have. I live in "Outlook" and downloaded and installed the software. I like it so much that I even put the software on my desktop IMAC running Vista, as a have a Wacom tablet that I use with my desktop computer. One...
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08-10-2008
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Tablet PC, Research, Tablet-PC, Inking, Josh+Einstein, TEO+3.0, Wacom, Wikipedia
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Technical events and training, plus a tour of the Microsoft campus, just looking at the itinerary it looks to be a couple pretty full days! Follow the links for additional information and to register. BD Would you like to get the latest scoop on HealthVault and Microsoft...
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Many of the Tenet hospitals are McKesson Clients. The Relay Health network will be able to connect to the patient’s file “The RelayHealth network then connects the consumer's portfolio of information with the care provider and unifies the management of the personal health...
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07-24-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, McKesson, PHR, Personal Health Records, Healthvaut, RelayHealth
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This week the Congress meeting is in Boston. I referenced in a earlier post that PHR's, (personal health records) are being viewed by Healthcare leadership as the favorite vehicle for interoperability. There is a podcast at the link below. There was a full line up of guest speakers...
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07-23-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Microsoft Healthcare, PHR, Interoperability
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If you like the iPhone, there’s a new Windows Mobile phone, rumored to be coming out from AT&T around September or so. It will have the nice increased real estate for the screen, what we all want and like. In addition, the camera on the unit is 5 megapixels and that’s better than my regular...
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NGO = NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS All non profit folks who may be reading this post, this is worth looking at! Hospitals, fund raising groups, you name it. Are you looking for Grant Information, look here. There are software and hardware grants available. This is worldwide...
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07-10-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Health IT, Hospitals, Grants, Nonprofits, software, NGO, Hardware
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If you are a small practice and want to incorporate email and voice communications, Response Point can be purchased at Costco. You need an active LAN and a phone RJ-11 connection and can handle up to 50 users. This is Voice over IP and contains speech recognition options...