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Smart Carpet Keeps Track of Patients When Caregivers Can't December 23, 2010 
A University of Missouri professor has developed a "smart carpet" that monitors the movements of elderly persons and can detect the potential for a dangerous fall. The purpose of the flooring system is to help patients remain both independent and safe unobtrusively. "The floor sends data to a computer that crunches the data for useful information," said Harry Tyrer, the system's inventor.
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Google Really Gets Under People's Skin December 17, 2010 
With Google's announcement Thursday of the Body Browser, online mapping technology finally caught up with the medical crew of "Fantastic Voyage," miniaturized in the 1966 sci-fi flick to enter a renowned scientist's bloodstream and save his brain from a life-threatening blood clot. A Chrome-OS driven online Gray's Anatomy, Body Browser continues Google's quest to map everything.
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White House Urges Cautious Exploration of Synthetic Biology's Potential December 16, 2010 
At least partly reversing Bush Administration aversion to emergent exotic biological research, President Barack Obama's 13-member Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Thursday issued 18 recommendations on synthetic biology -- life, designed and built in the laboratory.
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Bill Clinton Warns Dreamforce Crowd About Wikileaks Threat December 09, 2010 
Former President Bill Clinton's keynote speech Wednesday at Dreamforce 2010 in San Francisco was delayed because his flight came in late, so Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff got entertainer Stevie Wonder on stage to talk about his life. When president Clinton finally appeared almost an hour late at 5:50 p.m., Wonder introduced him.
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Here Comes the Holodeck November 19, 2010 
As if scripted for a "Star Trek" episode, news of a real-life, real-time hologram instantly projected images of holodecks in many a sci-fi fan's head, only to be dashed and challenged and revived again. The action opened with an announcement that a technological breakthrough by researchers at The University of Arizona produces a true hologram -- one that can be viewed from any angle and without 3D glasses.
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'Hypertexting' Lumped In With Other Risky Teen Behaviors November 09, 2010 
Once upon a time, the word "hypertexting" referred to the process of linking one page of text to another through a specific Internet protocol. Now, public health researchers are using it to describe the practice of sending mobile phone text messages in the extreme: "hyper," as in lots, and "texting" as in, well, texting.
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Microstrategy Mobile Enables Industry-Specific BI App Development October 22, 2010 
At the beginning of July, MicroStrategy rolled out MicroStrategy Mobile -- a platform designed to allow companies to extend their on-premise business intelligence application to the mobile environment. The following day, VHA, a provider of supply chain management services to reduce healthcare costs, rolled out its own iPhone app built using MicroStrategy Mobile.
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Antenna Aims to Help Pharma Reps Pocket More Sales October 08, 2010 
CRM applications for the pharmaceutical vertical are complex and highly tailored for this unique space. Building a comprehensive mobile CRM app that takes into account the varying needs of a pharma rep, therefore, would be a major undertaking. Antenna Software, which offers a mobile CRM app called "Antenna AMP Pharma Sales," skirted that issue by building a mobile user interface.
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Office Space: Technology's Good vs. Evil Battle, Part 3 October 07, 2010 
Being tethered to a computer all day is bad for employees' health and for employers' profits, considering healthcare insurance premiums climb and productivity declines with every worker malady. The latest scientific evidence finds that productivity is reduced even when it appears to be unimpeded.
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Office Space: Technology's Good vs. Evil Battle, Part 2 October 01, 2010 
The very nature of humanity has been changed by the nature of modern work. Where once workers were lean, muscled and tan, now they are pudgy, stooped and wrist-warped. The problem comes from restricted movement over long stretches in the day. Computers have chained employees to one spot, effectively stopping hearts, blurring eyes, freezing joints, and lifting sugar levels.
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Office Space: Technology's Good vs. Evil Battle, Part 1 September 28, 2010 
21st Century Western civilization bears the brunt of the greatest health threat since the black plague. Although not quite as dramatic -- there are no bodies in the street or mass graves of the afflicted, for example -- the death count is high and climbing, and the toll on company costs (from health insurance to lost productivity) seems unending.
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E-Skin for Robots Could Lead to Touchy-Feely Prosthetics for Humans September 14, 2010 
Robots can be made made strong, robots can be made tireless, but a big problem with robots so far is that they can't be made to have a sense of touch as humans do. The same issue challenges designers of prosthetic limbs. Imitating the motor movements of joints and muscles is one thing, but imitating human skin with all its myriad ways of detecting sensation is quite another.
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Video Game Junkie Tells It to the Judge August 24, 2010 
A lawsuit that is moving forward in the state of Hawaii adds another dimension to the ongoing debate over Internet addiction -- while prompting more than a few cynical guffaws from tort reform advocates. The suit, filed by plaintiff Donald Smallwood against the company NCSoft, claims that he became "psychologically dependent and addicted" to the fantasy massive multiplayer online role-playing game "Lineage II."
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Health IT: The Race Is On August 20, 2010 
A $30 billion information technology market is hard to pass up. That's why the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' program to invest that huge amount of money in health records technology has received a lot of attention in the IT vendor community. That's normal. What's unusual is that Congressional hearings followed on the heels of new regulations in a matter of mere days.
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Healthcare's Great Wireless Transformation August 19, 2010 
About 15 years ago, I had an office next door to Barry Green. At the time, our businesses had nothing in common. I was a wireless analyst and he was in healthcare. I recently got a call out of the blue from Barry asking for my help in evaluating an opportunity. When I took a look at what he was doing, I realized the world has changed dramatically. Our previously unrelated businesses of wireless and healthcare were crashing together.
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To Your Health: Intel and GE's Joint Venture August 10, 2010 
There's interesting food for thought in Intel and GE's 50/50 joint venture focused on developing management solutions for people in independent and assisted living situations, as well as those with chronic diseases. The new company will combine assets of Intel's digital health group and GE Healthcare's home health division and build on the healthcare alliance they announced in April 2009.
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CRM's Pivotal Role in Driving Healthcare Reform August 06, 2010 
The U.S. government's $642-million program to encourage the use of electronic health records through federally created Regional Extension Centers will involve a two-tiered effort featuring customer relationship management technology. The REC program is one of several federal initiatives promoting electronic health records.
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Regulators Take Aim at Genomics July 28, 2010 
The genomics industry, which provides reports about disease risk, ancestry, and drug reactions based on one's DNA, came under fire last week as a Congressional Committee held
hearings and the Government Accountability Office released an unscientific "study" of the sector. The GAO reportedly says that "fictitious consumers received test results that are misleading and of little or no practical use."
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Report From the Trenches: Health IT Post-HITECH July 20, 2010 
Just a few weeks ago, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center learned a hard lesson. If you didn't see the news reports, the N.Y.-based healthcare provider notified over 130,000 individuals that their records -- including diagnostic information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and other information of use to identity thieves -- was potentially lost.
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New Rules Lay Out 'Meaningful Use' Requirements for Electronic Health Records July 14, 2010 
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released its final version of rules that define the parameters under which physicians and hospitals can qualify for funding to upgrade their electronic medical records systems. Included are new definitions for what will constitute "meaningful use" of electronic records to meet objectives of the programs.
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