Bruce Hubbert who writes the Freakquency blog has another good post titled, “The Myth of the Self-Monitoring WLAN.” Duke University recently suffered a WLAN outage caused by an unanticipated flood of ARP (address resolution protocol) traffic. The details of the failure are used to demonstrate the need for network and WLAN monitoring that goes […]
The 2007 Healthcare Unbound conference was held July 16-17, 2007, at the Marriott San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA.
As I complete the posts about this years terrific Healthcare Unbound conference I will be listing them in this post.
Healthcare Unbound 2007 Kicks Off Jay Srini opens the conference, with opening keynote […]
Blogger Bruce Hubbert posts an update on the Cisco wireless LAN problem he called, “the ripple effect.” You can read the original post here. Bruce notes that Partners Healthcare has been struggling with this issue, noting:
…that a fix is forthcoming from Cisco, “They are revamping the behavior
of RRM in the WLC 4.1 Maintenance release.” Which […]
Cisco has aggressively marketed their “Medical Grade Network” that promotes the value of managing clinical data (especially from or between medical devices). Many have asked Cisco just what makes a network “medical grade.” When pressed, what was described to me was a mission critical network, which is fine for patient accounting, but inadequate for life […]
Google announced the formation of a Health Advisory Council that includes an eclectic group of health care insiders. The result has been speculation on Google's plans ranging from an application for patients to store their medical information online to the acquisition of an EMR vendor.
The acquisition of an EMR vendor will render Google just another […]
Google announced the formation of a Health Advisory Council that includes an eclectic group of health care insiders. The result has been speculation on Google's plans ranging from an application for patients to store their medical information online to the acquisition of an EMR vendor.
The acquisition of an EMR vendor will render Google just another […]
The feds have launched a new web site, “help vendors test products to determine if they meet the required
standards for participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network.” You can visit the site here. The site will provide HIT vendors with access to the tools and resources needed
to ensure their systems properly support evolving standards for […]
According to a survey by CHIME, more hospitals are reducing restrictions on cell phones.
Twenty-three
percent of the 185 survey respondents reported their organization has
lifted all restrictions on mobile phone use, up 5.5% from a similar
survey conducted by the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based organization in 2004.
Only 11 respondents, or 6%, indicated that cell phone use is entirely
prohibited at […]
The feds have launched a new web site, “help vendors test products to determine if they meet the required
standards for participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network.” You can visit the site here. The site will provide HIT vendors with access to the tools and resources needed
to ensure their systems properly support evolving standards for […]
According to a survey by CHIME, more hospitals are reducing restrictions on cell phones.
Twenty-three
percent of the 185 survey respondents reported their organization has
lifted all restrictions on mobile phone use, up 5.5% from a similar
survey conducted by the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based organization in 2004.
Only 11 respondents, or 6%, indicated that cell phone use is entirely
prohibited at […]
