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Goverment entities finally start working together to promote wireless medical technology
According to a story in "The Hill", a Washington D.C. based blog, the FCC and the FDA are joining forces to promote the use of wireless technology within the health care arena. According to the article "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg signed a memorandum of understanding and released a joint statement of [...]
New Louisiana State Health Secretary
Gov. Bobby Jindal's office said Friday that Bruce Greenstein will replace Alan Levine, who has resigned from his post as the Louisiana State Health Secretary, and is returning to the private sector. His last official day is Aug. 1. Greenstein is expected to start the new post Sept. 13. Greenstein has a reputation in health policy and [...]
Firday Blurbs….. April 23rd
Can't get a date, Get an iPhone - According to a recent survey conducted in the UK, 54 per cent of the ladies asked, said they’d be more likely to give their digits and date an iPhone owner than a non-iPhone owner. iPhone owners were also deemed better groomed, more likely to have a good sense of humor and have the gift of gab than other [...]
Data.WorldBank.org Launched Today on Drupal
Signaling the most aggressive open data push in the international development community to date, World Bank President Robert Zoellick launched Data.WorldBank.org this morning ahead of the organization's spring meeting. All of the World Bank's 2,000+ data indicators are now open and freely available to the public. This new website is the [...]
Father of Java departs Sun / Oracle
We understand that the father of JAVA, James Gosling announced he is leaving Sun, now part of Oracle. No formal announcement was made about his future plans. Regardless, it's sad news for Sun. In the words of John Gruber, "the Sun we knew is gone."
Southern Mississippi Researchers learning how to evacuate 70,000 sports fans in less than an hour?
What sports fan hasn't grumbled while waiting in a long, snaking lines to get into the stadium for the big game? It's enough to discourage even a diehard fan. But if you think it's a hassle getting into a sold-out game, imagine trying to get out after a bomb explodes—or even to get out under a bomb threat, for that matter. Let's start [...]
Alabama – Find Out What Many Already Know!
I would like to bring to everyone’s attention a series of articles and videos from Anderson Cooper's 360 Blog. These postings from the week of March 17th are very positive and really paint a great image of Alabama and what is going on within the region economically. Aside from the stereotyping done in one of the article’s titles, "Is that [...]
Mercer MBA Programs Make ‘Top 15’ Lists
MACON/ATLANTA — Reviews by Master of Business Administration students at Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics place the program among the top 15 in the nation in two categories of The Princeton Review’s “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools.” The MBA students cited Mercer’s preparation as [...]
iPhones Poor Performance on AT&T Network, Partially Apple’s Fault
According to a story in today's Business Insider, it has long been thought that the iPhone design had something to do with the poor performance on the AT&T network. However until recently AT&T has kept quiet about it. According tot eh article "Apple rejiggered how its phones communicate with AT&T's towers. As a result, the phones [...]
PS3 Update
PlayStation 3 (PS3) system upgrade will be released on April 1, 2010. The latest release will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on previous game consoles. Current users of the the “Install Other OS” feature can choose not to upgrade their PS3 systems, although the following features will no longer be [...]
Friday Blurbs…. 26th of March
Netflix does Wii - According to Jessie Becker, a spokes person for Netflix, said in a blog posting on the site. Netflix is getting ready for the launch of streaming to Wii. On Thursday Netflix started sending out instant streaming discs for the Wii to some of our Netflix members. This will allow customers to watch movies and TV episodes from [...]
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Selects Accelarad’s SeeMyRadiology.com Service
Nashville, TN. - Vanderbilt University Medical Center has selected Accelarad's (an Atlanta based company) SeeMyRadiology.com cloud based radiology service. The service allows physicians to exchange medical images via a secure web portal that can be accessed with any web enabled device such as a smart phones and other devices. Enabling the [...]
Indian BPOs Likely To Gain From U.S. Health Care System Overhaul
By Dhanya Ann Thoppil, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BANGALORE -(Dow Jones)- India's outsourcing firms will gain new orders after the U.S., one their largest markets, is overhauling their healthcare system, which could call for insurers and healthcare providers to cut expenses. The U.S. House Sunday gave final approval to a far-reaching [...]
Your Medical Records Aren’t Secure
The president says electronic systems will reduce costs and improve quality, but they could undermine good care if people are afraid to confide in their doctors. By DEBORAH C. PEEL (WallStreet Journal) I learned about the lack of health privacy when I hung out my shingle as a psychiatrist. Patients asked if I could keep their records [...]
Law enforcement lobbies hard for ICANN changes
IDG News Service — U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are trying to marshal support for changes that would make it more difficult for criminals to register domain names under false details. Their aim is to get the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- the overseer of the Internet's addressing system -- to [...]
