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IBM teams with Indian hospital to offer hosted apps - Network World
04/13/07
IBM Corp. has teamed up with the Apollo Hospital Group, a large hospital chain in India, to offer hosted software applications for mid-size hospitals in India.

Network World Video: Diving into ITIL
04/02/07
ow did Kaiser Permanente's company-wide reorganization around the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process framework help with the company's service and capacity planning management efforts? Andrew Brill, senior network planner for ...

Survey: E-health records don't have to threaten privacy - Network World
03/26/07
Electronic health records can be recorded and shared without jeopardizing privacy, according to a Harris Interactive survey of 2,337 adults that was released Monday.

Fujitsu offers flash-based notebooks - Network World
03/19/07
Fujitsu Computer Systems is fortifying two models in its notebook line by offering the option of solid-state drives for healthcare and aviation, the company said Monday.

Using network technology to treat hospital patients like cars - Network World
03/13/07
University of New Hampshire researchers are working to make hospital operating rooms safer by fostering better communication among computerized healthcare equipment, such as hospital beds and blood pressure monitors.

Healthcare group CIO on what it costs to be regulatory compliant, Part 2 - Network World
03/08/07
At the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society show in New Orleans last week, I caught up with John Halamka, CIO of Caregroup ...

Healthcare group CIO on what it costs to be regulatory compliant, Part 1 - Network World
03/06/07
At the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society show in New Orleans last week, I caught up with John Halamka, CIO of ...

New computer can take a bath - Network World
03/05/07
Emano Tec didn't just build its new tablet computer for healthcare workers based on the ideas of a bunch of techies and business people. It got second, third and additional opinions from doctors and CIOs.

Q&A: CareGroup CIO advances standards for healthcare IT - Network World
03/01/07
Dr. John Halamka sees great potential for interoperable electronic health records, which could turn out to be “like Google for healthcare combined with Napster for healthcare,” says the CIO of the CareGroup Healthcare System in Boston. But ...

Healthcare pros debate interoperability standards - Network World
02/27/07
NEW ORLEANS -- IT leaders this week debated which standards should be used to build interoperable health information systems -- an effort complicated by patient privacy concerns, technology hurdles and competing vendor interests.

Trapeze shows box for tracking Wi-Fi tags - Network World
02/27/07
Trapeze Networks has launched a purpose-built appliance that can locate tagged assets over its Wi-Fi LANs.

How free tools are helping Partners HealthCare slash electricity costs by $2.2 million - ...
02/27/07
Many network managers mark the beginning of a new IT initiative by powering on machines. For Ethan Fener, his plan to improve efficiencies at Partners HealthCare requires he be able to power down some 25,000 desktops.

Johns Hopkins loses 135,000 worker, patient records - Network World
02/08/07
Computer backup tapes containing payroll data on 52,000 Johns Hopkins workers and medical information on 83,000 patients were lost last month, but are thought to have been destroyed, the university and hospital announced Wednesday.

A growing divide in healthcare IT - Network World
02/06/07
Electronic medical records and other IT upgrades are seen as a “silver bullet” in the health industry’s struggle against rising costs and quality problems, but high startup expenses are creating a growing divide between big industry players and small ...

Intel opens health-care research project in Dublin - Network World
01/30/07
Intel Corp. and the Irish government are building the largest research initiative in the world dedicated to developing healthcare technologies specifically for the elderly, they said on Tuesday.

VA, Pentagon commit to joint e-health records - Network World
01/29/07
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of Defense last week said they have agreed to develop a joint electronic health records (EHR) system.

U.S. agencies to develop electronic health records system - Network World
01/25/07
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have agreed to jointly develop an electronic health records system that will allow physicians to share the medical records of veterans and active military personnel.

Vendors demonstrate e-health record network - Network World
01/23/07
Four vendors on Tuesday demonstrated electronic health records, one of the first steps toward making the records widely available in the United States.

Coalition to offer free prescription app to U.S. doctors - Network World
01/16/07
A coalition of technology companies and healthcare providers Tuesday announced a $100 million program to offer free access to electronic prescribing software to all U.S. physicians.

India’s Firstsource acquires U.S. outsourcer - Network World
01/04/07
Indian outsourcer Firstsource Solutions has acquired BPM, a healthcare claims outsourcing company in Delaware, and its two wholly-owned operating subsidiaries, MedPlans 2000 and MedPlans Partners.

Theft exposes patient data across five U.S. states - Network World
01/04/07
The theft of a computer from the office of an Ohio-based healthcare contractor on Nov. 23, 2006 has exposed sensitive data belonging to tens of thousands of patients in five healthcare firms across five states.

Redundancy considerations in Wi-Fi architectures - Network World
12/20/06
The issue of deploying the “right” Wi-Fi architecture for a given environment persists, as enterprises consider extending their Wi-Fi ...

Cedars-Sinai creates a supercomputer with Sun servers - Network World
12/14/06
Sun last week announced that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is using Sun’s Grid Rack system to process and analyze data that could lead to new ...

Preventing data leakage becomes a prime issue - Network World
12/12/06
E-mail, instant messaging and other communication tools are extremely easy to use and they allow communication with at least a couple of billion ...

Blue Cross improves performance, stays compliant with F5 Networks - Network World
11/28/06
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City went shopping for an application layer firewall and ultimately purchased an application delivery ...

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