Disease
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RFID has role protecting human health
Insight Alongside collaborative tools, radio frequency identification can help manage emergency efforts such as recall of contaminated food and notification of affected parties.
Tags: RFID, RFID Tag, GPS, Standards, tagging, performance, food, audit, supply chain, collaboration
Right time to ensure efficiency of BCP spend
News Companies should work at getting better returns on business continuity planning expenditure, instead of cutting expense on such activities during a downturn.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Crisis communications, Mobile, Backup, Cell Phone, Singapore, Forbes, business continuity planning, Crisis communications, phone
Tech helps improve Thai healthcare monitoring
News Thanks to the "Smart Health" project, initiated by the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Nectec), Thailand will be a healthier land of smiles.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Database management, Databases, Data centers, Risk Management, Thailand, Tool, Service, expert system, collective intelligence
Aussie university supercomputer looking for cancer cure
News The University of Melbourne and the Victorian government are planning to invest AU$100 million (US$94.2 million) in a supercomputer devoted to the life sciences.
Tags: Supercomputing, Disease, Information And Communication Technology, life science, supercomputer, University of Melbourne, Supercomputing
No blood test for influenza
Blogs There is no such thing as a blood test for influenza. If you've been searching for one, you can stop. Influenza is a...
Sample influenza business continuity plan
Blogs My colleague and fellow IAEM Asia member Chew Lip Heng and I started writing a sample corporate incident action plan (IA...
Medical supplies for a pandemic
Blogs What supplies should you acquire to prepare your office for an epidemic of mutated avian influenza? The same supplies...
Tags: Business security, Business Strategies & Functions, Business planning
Ultimate 2012 recovery site: the moon
Blogs Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't...
Getting tested for H1N1 flu in Singapore
Blogs A colleague of mine returned to Singapore on Wednesday, May 27 from Boston, USA, where he'd spent the week between May 1...
UK firms not ready for hack attacks, flu, bad weather
News Fewer than half, or 38 percent, of respondents in a U.K. survey said their organization has plans in place to cope with business disruption.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Data backup, disaster recovery, Organization, Telecommunications, Workforce, Survey, Attack, business continuity planning, U.K., information technology
Is Tamiflu 'better' than Relenza?
Blogs I can find no clinical evidence that Roche's Tamiflu is more effective than GlaxoSmithKline's less-prescribed Relenza ag...
Google wants to know if you're sick
News A temporary project from Google Health attempts to figure out how many people are searching for health-related terms because they are seeking remedy.
Tags: Search, Google Inc., Internet Search, product manager, Search Result, Internet, health care, Search
Phishing with swine flu as bait
News Experts say beware e-mail from strangers that reference swine flu and could contain links to malicious sites or harbor data stealing code in attachments.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, PC security, Data security, Phishing, Ironport Systems Inc., antivirus, phone, e-mail, Symantec Corp.
Reviewing pandemic plans has just become job #1
Techguide With the Influenza A hitting over 60 countries, IT managers need to step up contingency planning. One CIO shares his organization's experience and plans.
Tags: Contingency planning, Remote management, VPNs, Event, Plan, public health, remote access, Contingency planning, VPNs, Server
Japan to try GPS phones to prevent pandemics
News Softbank participates in a Japanese government-backed experimental project that uses GPS-enabled cell phones to track elementary schoolers' whereabouts for health-monitoring purpose.
Tags: GPS, 3G (Third Generation), Mobile, Apple iPhone 3G, Cell Phone, Japan, Softbank Corp., phone, Associated Press, 3G
