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RFID is good for many things but increasing security is not one of them

As I travel around the country and speak to CTOs and CIOs about their hospitals infrastructure, implementing radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is one of the major items in everyone’s plans. While I’m always happy that RFID is taking hold in the minds of my clients, what worries me is that RFID is not mature enough yet to protect healthcare IT data but most vendors are not telling their customers during demos and pitches.

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Web-based QA

I saw an interesting service offering recently. Check Autoriginate: Intelligent testing made convenient. Here’s how they describe themselves: HostedQA is the industry’s first web-based QA solution. With a focus on making automated testing convenient and ensuring that the resulting test scripts are intelligent, HostedQA is generations ahead of the competition. No longer do you have to settle for automating only the playback of your tests. HostedQA automates the entire automated testing cycle.

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$10 Million available to Patient Monitoring Engineering Team

Business 2.0’s The $100 million giveaway article has an offer of $10 million for “an engineering team to design implantable wireless devices capable of 24/7 patient and data monitoring for conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.” It seems there’s decent startup money available if you’ve got the right ideas and can execute. Here’s the snippet from the article in case you’re interested: Patient Monitoring to Go The Investor: Corey Mulloy, general partner, Highland Capital Partners

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Beware of vendors bearing SOA gifts

The healthcare sector manages an estimated 90 billing healthcare transactions globally; unfortunately, more than 90 percent are happening via phone, fax, or postal mail. In order for healthcare organizations to better manage today’s information technology requirements, they require modern tools that are designed to work with legacy infrastructures in a service oriented approach/architecture (SOA) where middleware is able to get information to and from multiple systems and applications that have likely been around for decades.

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Please use the new rating system on my blog to tell me how you like articles

I just installed a new rating system that uses some cool AJAX functionality to allow you simply click on a star and rate the quality of the postings you read here. 1 star means the article is very weak and 5 stars means I’ve done great and that you found the article useful. My objective on this blog is to give unique, actionable advice and pointers to tips and views you won’t always get on other news sites so please take a moment when you read the articles to let me know what you think of each one.

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Interesting Hopkins Study on Tracking Medication Error Reports

I ran across an interesting press release from earlier this year reporting that “Physicians, nurses, pharmacists equally prone to fault” for medication errors. The general findings in the article are pretty obvious but they have broken out the information in some useful ways. Here are some highlights from the article: “One of the more interesting findings was that drug-administering errors, such as giving the patient the wrong drug or the wrong dose or at the wrong time, were quite common,” Lehmann says.

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Collaboration tools can transform healthcare IT but be careful

Web conferencing, instant messaging, blogs and wikis, messaging platforms, team collaboration, collaborative document management, email to fax, and barcoded documents can transform your health IT strategy. Unlike most knowledge management and other collaborative tools of yesteryear, most of the current tools are either free or very cheap. And, they don’t require much technical know-how to comprehend or install (because they don’t require any installation onto desktops in many cases). End users are already experimenting with collaboration tools and if IT departments don’t get a hold of what’s going on, they will lose control.

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Healthcare app and devices design

I’ve been meaning to write an article on design of healthcare applications and devices for some time. Instead, I decided to go to an expert and get this thoughts. John Trenouth has a masters in design from Carnegie Mellon University and over a decade of experience designing interactive products and systems in both telecommunications and healthcare. Currently he blogs at niblettes and runs a boutique design firm Spire Innovation specializing in product innovation and design research.

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Event: Profiling the Agile Architect

As many of you know, last year I co-founded the International Association of Software Architects’ Mid-Atlantic Chapter and we’ve had some great events in the DC area. This Thursday we’ve got Jeff Nielsen, Chief Scientist at Digital Focus, talking to us about Agile Architecture. Jeff trains and mentors teams and individuals in the use of agile methodologies and has over 19 years of commercial software development experience; he has architected a number of mission-critical and enterprise-level systems.

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It’s harder to get out than get in

We’ve all seen it: we spend weeks or months in the “sales and demo cycle” for our applications. If we’re lucky we consider all workflows, if we’re even luckier we test drive the UI and make sure training goes smoothly, if we’re smart we also try to ensure that deployment will be easy. However, what we all seem to forget is to figure out how to get out of an application or system after it’s been installed for a while.

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