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Since before I did health care wireless data at AT&T Wireless in the naughties, there were rumors that Verizon would eventually abandon CDMA for a wireless telephony standard that was compatible with their joint venture...

Modern Healthcare reports that the Joint Commission is piloting the Wiki concept for collaboration on health care topics.The commission's motivation was to create a space where healthcare providers, administrators,...

I arrived in San Francisco last night (July 15) for the Healthcare Unbound conference. The event's at the airport Marriott, which was a nice short shuttle bus ride away. We were dropped off at what appeared to be the rear...

Jon Speer at the Creo Quality blog, sent me a note yesterday about eDrugSearch.com's Healthcare 100, a ranking of the world's top English language blogs in health care and medicine. Jon noted that this site was ranked...

Outpatient surgery centers are an increasingly important market for vendors, with sales increasing 24.3% from 2001 to 2003. The Health Industry Distributors Association has published a new report on the topic: “Since 2000,...

I have encouraged many people whose insights and opinions I value to start their own blog. As easy as blogging is, it seems to take a certain kind of person who really likes to do it. Recently two new blogs have hit the...

Hidden in Plain Sight explores innovation in a way that seems very relevant for health care. The approach to innovation presented in the book is described as demand-first innovation and growth. I've got many hours of travel...

The industry group responsible for the advancement and adoption of USB technology (warning: obnoxious sound track) has created a health care working group. Apparently patterned on the Continua Health Alliance approach, the group...

The BlueCross BlueShield Association has released the 2007 Medical Cost Reference Guide. It's a nice compendium of health care market statistics. While there is some more current data available, you have to dig for it. This...

Last Friday morning, sometime after 3:30am, my hosting service moved this site to a different DNS (domain name servers that associate URLs with IP addresses). They fumbled the transfer, resulting in none of the other DNS on the...

For the past several months I've been working with a group that came out of the National Library of Medicine's Scalable Information Infrastructure program. The grant has ended, but a number of the participants are...

I made it - a lot of people didn't (or came in really late). Sadly, my bag didn't make it. It's midnight and they still haven't delivered it yet.Picking up my registration packet, I ran into Neil Versel and...

I was talking with someone in the industry who pointed me to this PDF file on Philips Medical Systems' web site. This electronic brochure for Philips' IntelliVue Telemetry System was remarkable for the use of the...