Dell joined a growing chorus of IT companies trying to grab a bigger slice of the market for digital health care records. The computer maker announced a series of partnerships on Monday aimed at bolstering its health care chops. At the high-end, the company announced a...
Here, ragged tufts of cotton can be transformed into neat, nearly paper-thin sheets with the flip of a switch. A machine whirs. Inside, thousands of tiny needles arranged at an angle quickly punch the fluffy strips, transforming them into a seamless web. There's no telling where this...
Based on distributed computing technologies Google has publicly disclosed, Hadoop provides an open source implementation for other companies with very large data analysis challenges, including Yahoo! and Facebook. The free software, named for a toy elephant, now runs on some of the largest sites on...
I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks. The deal’s collapse after weeks of negotiations raises questions about Sun’s next step, since the I.B.M. offer...
Within Microsoft’s Office group, the calendar on the wall appears to be 1983, the year the company introduced Microsoft Word. The company still expects customers to buy its software applications as products and install and run them on PCs. Recognition of the Internet has been...
A pilot program at Google Health is said to be the first of many to test how the government can give Medicare beneficiaries online access to medical data. Google Health, the California-based search company's medical record-storing product, works with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius told congress members that she strongly supports healthcare IT in confirmation hearings for her nomination to the post of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary. Sebelius said the economic stimulus package makes positive investments now that will...
Two technology research firms have confirmed that a deeper-than-expected global recession has, indeed, reached the information technology sector. Both Gartner Inc. and Forrester Research forecasts predict that IT (information technology) spending will be harder hit than it was following the dot-com bust when...
Microsoft announced today at HIMSS 09 Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) 2009, the next generation release of the enterprise data aggregation platform that enables hospitals to unlock patient data stored in a wide range of systems and make it easily accessible to every authorized...
The University of Oklahoma and IBM will launch an initiative to build a new primary-care physicians’ practice model. The "medical home” pilot includes 355 physicians and connects clinical data from 11 different EMRs between hospitals, physician offices, local ambulances, fire departments and patients. The patient...