I can't just pick on GE, you know. Yesterday Spacelabs Healthcare announced the introduction of 7 new ventilators - with nary a word about connectivity.
In fairness to Blease, I suppose the static installation of ventilators in operating rooms, combined with the maturity and penetration of anesthesia information systems (all using serial interfaces) does not […]
Security advisor columnist Roger Grimes wrote an interesting piece on the evolution of corporate data security. He used Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as his model. Briefly, here is Grimes’ Hierarchy of Security Needs:
In Stage One, no
one thinks about computer security at all. Passwords are short and
shared logons are common, no firewalls are installed, and the […]
Remember Healtheon, WebMD, the last Internet bubble? (Here are two interesting takes on the bubble, here and here.) Well Marty Wygod got his hands on WebMD, spun it up to a conglomerate that survived off old school businesses like claims processing (Envoy) and practice management (Medical Manager). WebMD became Emdeon, is losing money, and has […]
