Monthly Archives: September 2009

Medical Data in the Cloud

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Bob

I just ran across a three-part series of articles by Practice Fusion: Medical Data in the Internet “cloud”: (part 1) – Data Safety (part 2) – Data Security (part 3) – Data Privacy Being an EMR in the cloud requires … Continue reading →

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Access to Medical Data: Are PC Standards and PHRs (You) the Answer?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Bob

Dana Blankenhorn’s article Give medicine access to PC standards makes some good points about the medical device industry but (IMHO) misses the mark when trying to use PC standards and PHRs as models for working towards a solution. I’ll get … Continue reading →

Posted in EMR, Google, Interoperability, Medical Devices, Microsoft | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Plug-and-Play Medicine

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Bob

The MIT Technology Review article Plug-and-Play Medicine claims that: … a Boston research group has come up with a software platform for sharing information among gadgets … Uh, what software platform? I discussed the MD PnP program a couple of … Continue reading →

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A .NET Application that Never Dies

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Bob

Jeremy’s Graceful Shutdown Braindump should really include another use case. How do you create a .NET application that never shuts down? Ever! This  is a common scenario for closed systems that only allow the user to interact with a predefined … Continue reading →

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Medical Device Software on Shared Computers

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Bob

The issues raised in Tim’s post Running Medical Device Software on Shared Computers literally opens Pandora’s box. Installation of medical device software on general purpose computers is an intractable problem. It’s very similar to the complications associated with Networked Medical … Continue reading →

Posted in FDA, Interoperability, Medical Devices, Networking | 8 Comments

2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Bob

This is a great list. I linked to it in 2007, but somehow forget in 2008. Anyway, there’s probably at least one tool you may not have seen before that would be worth trying out. Scott Hanselman’s 2009 Ultimate Developer … Continue reading →

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