Healthcare Industry
51 Stories
E-medical record must be about business
News update Countries should manage deployment of electronic medical record systems like business projects, or risk having such plans being placed as low priority.
Tags: IT project management, Network administration/implementation, Database management, Databases, Conference, European Union, healthcare industry, patient medical record, Singapore, CIO
A touch of healthcare and technology
Insight Dr. Colin Quek, CIO of Raffles Medical Group, discusses why the social component of healthcare can make IT spending more complex in this industry.
Tags: IT budgeting, Project management, IT budgeting, Project management
IT in healthcare: a mixed bag?
News The use of technology is often a hit-and-miss affair, partly the result of market hype and a lack of competition in the profession, says one practitioner.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions
Wireless industry wants in on US healthcare stimulus money
News Wireless industry is hoping it can reap the rewards of billions of dollars being spent on health care technology as part of the economic stimulus package.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless LANs, Handhelds, Cisco Systems Inc., wireless industry, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Hospital, electronic health record, electronic record
IBM hones vertical focus in S’pore
News Big Blue has teamed with a slew of niche software developers in the city-state to target small and medium businesses in emerging vertical sectors.
Healthcare RFID to track blood
News To help medical staff cut clinical errors, a German hospital is conducting a trial to verify blood goes to the right patient using RFID-tagged blood bags.
Tags: RFID
Disaster recovery challenges for the healthcare industry: File servers
Techguide Because of its critical nature, data on healthcare industry file servers requires special disaster recovery planning. Find out some of the key issues for preventing data loss and ensuring uptime in the healthcare environment.
Tags: Hardware, Servers, Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery, File servers
ehealthcareasia expects US$17m revenues for 1st year
News Hong Kong-listed ehealthcareasia Ltd (EHA), which provides IT solutions to the health services industry in a few Asia Pacific markets, hopes to generate US$17 million in revenues by April 1, 2001.
Healtheon/WebMD buys Medical Manager
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Asia healthcare: Tech laggard no more
Insight IT systems are being upgraded to enhance patient care, keep pace with international standards, and to grab more medical tourism dollars.
Healthcare gets a dose of Web 2.0
News The time is ripe for social networking applications to be developed for the healthcare industry and its patients, says medical practitioner.
Tags: Web 2.0
S'pore wants 'digital abundance' to be reality
News Country needs its ecosystem to support bid to enable "unlimited bandwidth" and "supercomputing-on-demand", says industry regulator.
Tags: Utility computing, grid computing, Supercomputing, Digital media, Next-generation technology/networks, SMB, Abundance, Google Inc., Singapore, Cloud Computing
Dell looks to show aspiring e-businesses the ropes
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Open networks for 'tomorrow's Facebook'
News Asian economies need to ready their network infrastructure to support new and multiple services, and one way to do this is to adopt open standards, says Juniper exec.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Next-generation technology/networks, LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Business applications, Mobile, Internet Access, Facebook, Open Networks, network
Microsoft: Developer interest fueling OOXML
News Software giant has ramped up efforts on building developer tools for the Office Open XML document format, says a senior company executive.
Tags: Standards, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Developer, software company, public sector, software, industry, development tool
