Monthly Archives: September 2007

CardioDynamics Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Innovative Clinical Parameters and Electronic Medical Record Compatibility

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Bob

CardioDynamics International Corporation (CDIC) Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Innovative Clinical Parameters and Electronic Medical Record Compatibility. WooHoo! Congratulations to all of the CDIC R&D (including yours truly) and Quality teams for getting this done. Great job everyone!

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Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Bob

Last night I attended a San Diego .NET Users Group meeting where the topic was LINQ. The presentation was done by Julie Lerman (http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog and http://blogs.devsource.com/devlife). Since I have an interest in ORM (see here) I’ve done some reading on … Continue reading →

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A .NET code sample: Real-time data streaming and control.

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Bob

This is a follow-up to the Developing a real-time data flow and control model with WCF post. My original plan was to write a full-fledged article on this. I’ve gotten some requests for the code, but it does not appear … Continue reading →

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The EMR-Medical Devices Mess

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Bob

Tim Gee’s EMR Connectivity for Medical Devices Is a Mess post is right on target. I’ve also expressed my opinion (“total chaos”) on this, but as you’ll see I’m coming from a different perspective. The HealthLeaders Technology article primarily focuses … Continue reading →

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Personally Controlled Health Record

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Bob

Following my EMR-Facebook brainstorming post I ran across the IndivoHealth project (via WSJ-Health Blog). The announcement is that a consortium of large companies, Dossia, would be extending the Indivo open source core. Indivo has implemented the paradigm shift that I … Continue reading →

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More on using a Named Mutex in Vista

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Bob

This is a follow-up to the Kernel Object Namespace and Vista post. Those previous findings were made using an administrative user in Vista. When I tried creating a ‘Session\AppName’ Mutex as a non-administrative user though, the application hung! Just to … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Vista | 2 Comments

A new model for EMR software: Facebook?

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Bob

There’s an article in the October The Atlantic Monthly entitled About Facebook (subscription required) by Michael Hirschorn. His contention is that Facebook is currently the site that “comes closest to fulfilling the promise of social media.” As I read though … Continue reading →

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Mind Reading Software

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Bob

I spent quite a few years developing diagnostic Electroencephalography (EEG) systems and software. I always get a kick out of articles with titles like this one: Microsoft Working On Mind-Reading Software. It’s the mind-reading part that gets me because your … Continue reading →

Posted in EEG, HCI, Medical Devices, Microsoft | 8 Comments

Coffee: The New Health Food?

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Bob

I get a lot of grief about my coffee drinking habits. Apparently, it is quite noticeable that I consume large quantities of coffee. People inevitably ask me what would happen if I didn’t get my daily fix. Would I have … Continue reading →

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