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WSJ: Intel to Unveil New Health Care System
Chip maker Intel is announcing trials of health care hardware and software it has developed to show whether the tools help with treating chronic medical problems such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
- NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) Computer chip
maker Intel Corp is introducing a technology to help homebound hospital
patients with chronic medical problems, The Wall Street Journal reported on
Sunday.
The Silicon Valley
company will announce a series of trials with health-care organizations of
spec...
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Panasonic Combines Toughbook Features, Intel Atom Processor for Health Care PC
The Panasonic Toughbook H1 is a health care-specific notebook that will feature the same rugged features found in other Panasonic notebooks and include an Intel Atom processor. With the Toughbook H1, Panasonic is looking to compete against Motion Computing, which also uses Intel processors for its line of notebooks and tablets for the health care industry. In the past few months, Panasonic has turned to the Intel Atom chip for a number of unique notebook designs for vertical markets, such as the Toughbook CF-U1.
- Panasonic
is combining the technology it uses for its line of Toughbook notebooks with Intel's
Atom processor to offer a new type of notebook specifically designed for
hospitals and health care workers.
On Nov. 4, Panasonic debuted Toughbook H1, a rugged notebook for the health
care industry. T...
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Intel Medical Device Wins FDA Approval
The Intel Health Guide, which includes a small touch-screen PC and online interface to connect patients to doctors, has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Intel plans to start selling the PC and health care services later in 2008.
- Intel is now a step closer to becoming its own health care shop.
On July 10, Intel announced that it had received approval from the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration to begin selling a personal health care system dubbed
the Intel Health Guide, which includes a small touch-screen PC and a Web port...
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Tech Backs Standards for Online Health Records
Google and Microsoft jump on Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health initiative.
- With a majority of Americans supportive of electronic medical records but still wary of the privacy implications, the non-profit Markle Foundation moved June 25 to create a national framework of standards.
The effort drew the immediate praise and endorsement of Google, Microsoft and a host of othe...
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Health Care IT Checkup
Two health care CIOs weigh in on the challenge of striking the careful balance among data efficiency, portability and privacy
- All CIOs are charged with aligning technological operations with business needs. In the health care industry, the stakes are about as high as they can get.
eWeek recently conducted a virtual roundtable discussion with two prominent CIOs in the health care field: George Conklin, CIO of Christus Heal...
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Online Health Records: What`s the Big Deal?
Opinion: There's a huge difference between the terms “on the Internet” and “accessible through the Internet.”
- Lately theres been a lot of talk about privacy and safety concerns regarding online health information. This morning I read an article on CNNs Web site where the author was shocked to find her personal, private health information “on the Internet” (as she phrased it).
The problem I have with this...
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How Intermountain Healthcare Is Taking Mobility to the Next Level
Deploying a WLAN is complicated in itself. Deploying it in a healthcare environment with its many regulations and security mandates is even more complicated. Ty Bindrup, Intermountain Healthcares Enterprise Network Planner, explains how his organization accomplished this daunting task.
- Healthcare is one of the most complex vertical environments. Caregivers are highly mobile, job duties are time-critical and impact peoples lives, and regulations abound to ensure patient safety and security. To address these business-impacting challenges, hospitals are increasingly turning to inform...
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Google Health Launches to Questions About Privacy
Google executives pledge privacy as they roll out Google Health for consumers to try.
- Google has formally launched its Google Health effort to allow patients access their personal health records no matter where they are, from any computing device, through a secure portal hosted by Google.
In this beta, users who sign up for the program must agree to grant quot;all or nothing quo...
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GE Wants FCC to Guard Wireless Telemetry Spectrum
GE Healthcare wants the FCC to restrict usage of channels adjacent to Wireless Medical Telemetry System frequencies.
- Patient safety could be at risk unless GE Healthcare and other IT
heavyweights persuade the Federal Communications Commission to protect the
wireless medical telemetry channel from possible interference.
When cable converts to a digital signal in 2009, wireless frequencies called
quot;white s...
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Microsoft`s Patient Plans
Patients want to see, feel, handle and distribute their health information the way they do their bank records, Microsoft says.
- ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Microsoft's doing all
it can to empower consumers to find, analyze, manage and securely share their
own personal health information in the name of greater knowledge and,
ultimately, better health, the company says.
Steve Aylward, Microsoft Health amp; Life Sciences Industry ...
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Web 2.0 Can Give Consumers More Control over Health Care
Microsoft says Web 2.0 is essential to helping consumers take control of their health care.
- Microsoft says Web 2.0 is the technology that will help consumers take
control of their health care and health information.
Ben Flock, a Microsoft Healthcare amp; Life Sciences Industry advisor, told
attendees during his closing keynote at Microsoft's Health amp; Life Sciences
Developer and ...
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Proscape Closes Sales Loop for Pharma Reps
The Microsoft partner's CRM system makes sales reps work more efficiently.
- Microsoft partner Proscape has developed a customer relationship management system that it says makes pharmaceutical sales representatives work more efficiently.
Proscape Technologies co-founder and President Derek Pollack said the closed-loop marketing system takes into account the potential phys...
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Microsoft Explains HealthVault Strategy
With comparisons to both its Xbox platform and the PayPal online payment platform, Microsoft aims to correct common misperceptions about its HealthVault platform.
- With comparisons to both Microsoft's Xbox platform and the PayPal
online payment platform, Microsoft aims to correct common
misperceptions about its HealthVault platform.
Grad Conn, Healthcare and Life Sciences senior director for global
consumer strategy, Microsoft, addressed attendees at Micro...
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Using Technology to Attract Talent
Englewood Hospital is increasing its ability to recruit
top doctors and slash costs via an IntelliSafe document
management system.
- Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center
is increasing its ability to recruit and hire top physicians and slash
administrative costs by implementing a secure, paperless enterprise document
signing and management solution from IntelliSafe Technologies.
With five other hospitals within 25 miles, En...
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Microsoft, AOI Track Hospital-Acquired Infections
A patient safety screening tool can improve early detection of the infections, with the potential to save thousands of lives.
- Microsoft partner Accent on Integration has rolled out a patient
safety screening tool at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that can
improve early detection of hospital-acquired infections, with the
potential to save thousands of lives.
Sepsis is the body's systemic response to infection, wh...
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