MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cisco'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:23:46 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4045174&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FnFDx5RhqYO0%2F While at the AAFP conference recently, I saw a company called PhoneTree that I found interesting. They essentially take care of all the automated calling for the doctors office. I was a bit surprised that a company like this is still around. Is there still a market for narrowly focused products like this? I know that many EHR vendors have integrated these types of features into their PMS and EMR software. The other problem I had with this company was that they only have a one way interface for calling. Basically, you dump a csv file out from your scheduling system and they make the calls. However, there’s no method of getting the data back to the EHR software so you can know who confirmed and who didn’t in your EHR. Seems like a no brainer feature to me, but seemed to barely be... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4045174 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:26:24 +0100 4045174 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899381&cid=t_172705_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FEW3fEekjyhc%2F The hard-nosed, content-at-all-cost folks at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation have been warned, and warned, and warned some more: Get the national curriculum standards you think are so incredibly important, and they will almost certainly be captured by the pedagogical progressives who have dominated education for decades — and whose notions you disdain. Well, if what’s being reported by Common Core’s Lynne Munson – and reiterated in this lamentation for Massachusetts by the Pioneer Institute’s Jim Stergios – is accurate, that is already happening. (Actually, some prominent analysts have long said that the national standards — created by the Council of Chief State School Officers and National Governors Association — are already nothing the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899381 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:26:02 +0100 3899381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395222&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fnecessity-drive-telehealth-adoption Telehealth has been claiming its rightful place in the headlines over the past couple months, with news of regional funding for telehealth networks and the arrival of new telemedicine technologies becoming an almost daily occurrence. Now that an estimated one-third of the nation’s best and brightest physicians are eyeing the exits, we can expect telehealth’s role in healthcare to really pick up steam. Necessity is still the mother of all invention. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395222 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:05:05 +0100 3395222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2859167&cid=t_172705_165_f&fid=36770&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmetaot.com%2Fblog%2Fcisco-642-061-examination With the Q&As of Pass4sure, many candidates passed the 70-290 and get their Pass4sure MCP certifications without much difficulty.Many people will wonder that if there is no Pass4sure, weather it will be possible for them to pass the 70-290 exam and get certified.Pass4sure is the bellwether in the field of IT certification training materials supplying market. They do an excellent job in offering high-standard and super-value practice exams for Cisco certification tests. With the assistant of Pass4sure, passing any tough Pass4sure 70-290 exam is a piece of cake.For them, the preparation stage is painful if there is no assist of Pass4sure Pass4sure 70-290 exam. Time and energies are inevitable.However, if you find a correct study method and spend enough time on preparation, you ... meta-ot blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2859167 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:30:56 +0100 2859167 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793256&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F09%2F10%2Femr-integration-with-cisco-ip-phones%2F One of the lunch demos I saw at the EHR Stimulus tour was a demo of the integration of a Cisco IP phone with an EMR. I’ll admit that they are VERY brave souls to try and do a demo like this since it’s just prone to problems. Demos are always that way. Plus, I think you can get the picture of what’s happening without seeing it. At least I could have and everyone else that couldn’t probably just saw all the configuration and thought it was too complex to even consider. That part aside, there were a couple of things that were intriguing about the demo. First, as they said, it’s interesting to see how hardware can really affect and interact with your EMR. That’s an interesting concept that I think is worth exploring a lot more. Second, if setup correctly the... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793256 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:30:36 +0100 2793256 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2417086&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FvBTu2sCT-t8%2F I previously posted about the EHR stimulus tour (no link since I don’t want to promote them). Today I saw what seems to amount to a press release that talks about the “EHR Stimulus Alliance” and their tour to “educate 500,000 U.S. physicians about opportunities aligned with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.” This type of puffery just makes me sick. No. Not the educating 500,000 physicians. That’s a good thing and part of the motivation for this blog. The thing that makes me sick is this seems like just a big marketing campaign for Allscripts. Sure they have a list of other partners, but they’re basically partners of Allscripts. Check out the list: Allscripts, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft Corp., and Nuance. ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2417086 Tue, 19 May 2009 03:53:22 +0100 2417086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2390017&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FebtR8OO3CsE%2F Turns out the fish are starting to feed. Check out this website that talks about the “EHR Stimulus Tour: Educating the Nation.” Ok, I don’t really want you to check out the website, since I think it’s kind of sad. At the bottom it lists the “EHR Stimulus Alliance.” The following companies are listed in this EHR alliance: Allscripts Cisco Citrix Dell intel intuit Microsoft Nuance What a group of large companies trying to sell a bunch of product. I guess we should have expected something like this, but maybe I’m just a little surprised that they made a website for an EHR stimulus tour and everything. Interestingly the twitter link on the site goes to an Allscripts twitter account. I think we can clearly see who’s behind this website. Honestly, ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2390017 Mon, 04 May 2009 22:54:02 +0100 2390017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2382590&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMedicalConnectivityConsulting%2F%7E3%2F3KS-NLZTUds%2F After a breakfast meeting, I caught Brenda Vollmer’s presentation on Improving Safety Through Automation. Grand River Hospital recently installed ConnexALL to integrate WatchMate patient wandering, Siemens fire panels and Delta Controls building automation systems. According to Brenda the implementation of ConnexALL was initiated to better align with their hospital’s patient and staff safety goals.  After installation they were able to consolidate much of the management and interaction of these three event driven systems into an automated and consolidated system using ConnexALL. Specific benefits included, improved reliability, managed group notification, reduction in manual interventions, automatic alarm escalation, increased mobility (no sitting at a workstation or watching ... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2382590 Sat, 02 May 2009 23:16:01 +0100 2382590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2353916&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMedicalConnectivityConsulting%2F%7E3%2FbV5-9EdevmE%2F The second day of GlobeStar’s World Connex user group meeting included more informative end user experiences implementing ConnexALL. Shawn Sicard, CEO of PiiComm in Toronto, Canada lead the customer presentations with a discussion about putting togeter complete solutions.  PiiComm is a systems integrator targeting the health care vertical market, with a long term relationship with GlobeStar. As an event sponsor, PiiComm has an exhibit demonstrating many of the products they support. Sean highlighted the Motorola CA 50 wireless VoIP phone with built-in barcode scanner. Built orignally for Home Depot, the phone has found some interest in health care. The phone has push to talk (PTT), a 1D barcode scanner in a small size (4.37″x 1.81″ x 1″ and about 4 ounces). The CA ... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2353916 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:17:59 +0100 2353916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349566&cid=t_172705_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F43GYMSK5Fhg%2F I am listening to my oddest iTunes playlist: it contains only one song, but several versions of it. It’s called Deportees, and seems to be extraordinarily popular with various sections of the music world’s practitioners, some of whom have recorded more than one version of it. I have appended a list of all of the ones that I have found so far. Woody Guthrie wrote the song based upon a true incident which happened in the 1940’s, when the captain and crew of a crashed airplane were listed by name in a newspaper article, but the migrant farm workers, whom they were taking back to Mexico, were not and were listed as “just deportees.” The link above has the story of it. I loved the song from the first time I heard a recording of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie singing ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349566 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:43:51 +0100 2349566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2272508&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fhealthcare-cios-responsibility-providing-patient-care-and-safety In 2005, after 13 years in the financial services industry, I migrated into the healthcare industry. I was about five weeks into my new career when a major network downtime occurred. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2272508 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:54:23 +0100 2272508 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1499876&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicalconnectivity.com%2F2008%2F06%2F06%2Fcisco-changing-to-support-health-care%2F Many things have changed at Cisco since they were visited by the FDA in 2006. Awhile back Kent Gray, global lead for Healthcare Solutions at Cisco, explained to me that the FDA was responding to a brochure produced by Cisco that included a photo of a 7921 handset displaying a patient monitor alarm and associated waveform. The FDA observed that the photo represented labeling of a Class III medical device for which Cisco did not have regulatory approval. Thus began a crash course in the health care school of hard knocks for Cisco. To Cisco’s credit they have since made many substantive changes to their traditional approach to vertical market marketing in response to the special requirements of health care. During the AAMI conference this week in San Jose, I had a chance to meet with Er... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1499876 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:55:48 +0100 1499876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1284739&cid=t_172705_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicalconnectivity.com%2F2008%2F03%2F06%2Fccx-and-medical-devices%2F When it connects to a wireless LAN, a medical device uses the Wi-Fi® radio to send data to and from network infrastructure such as access points. If the medical device’s Wi-Fi connection is unreliable, then the device’s operation will become unreliable, and users will be reluctant to use the device. In some hospitals, network-ready medical devices sit unused in closets because users could not rely on the devices to maintain consistent network connections, especially when the devices were mobile. Wi-Fi radios adhere to a set of IEEE and industry standards that define how the radio interoperates with a wireless LAN infrastructure. Devices that bear the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ seal have passed a set of interoperability tests defined by an industry association called the Wi-Fi Alliance®. A me... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1284739 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:11:06 +0100 1284739