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Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records are all over the news with recent focus on Health Care Information Technology. Over the next few years, the world of medical information tech is changing as Health Care is getting a major information technology overhaul as the world moves towards a digital age in health care. Get the latest health care news, insight, analysis, blogs and product reviews from eWeek Health Care IT and Medical IT news articles. Follow the latest growth areas such as automated practice management, electronic health records (EHR), electronic medical records (EMR), computerized physician entry (CPE) and peer intelligence.
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The IBM supercomputer at Brown University is 50 times more powerful, six times more energy efficient and can hold 70 times more memory than the system it's replacing. Researchers and scientists across the region will have access to the supercomputer, which will have a peak performance of more than 14 teraflops. The supercomputer includes IBM's iDataPlex and holds 1,440 microprocessors. The Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Mass., will be one of the first users.
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Dell’s Medical Clinical Computing solution is designed to make it easier for hospital personnel to gain access to the information and applications they need. The client virtualization offering keeps the information and data stored in the data center, and lets physicians and other health care professionals access them through such devices as laptops, handhelds and thin clients. Dell is leveraging its acquisition of Perot in developing this offering.
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Intel and three French research institutes are planning to invest several million euros to create a supercomputing facility to explore the outer limits of high-performance computing. The Exascale Computing Research Center will tackle issues related to weather forecasting and health care.
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Industry-standard technology, GPUs and energy efficiency were among the key themes running throughout the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Ore. At the show, which wraps up Nov. 20, a number of vendors, including Cray, Dell, HP and SGI, showed off new and enhanced high-end systems, many of which are designed to enable businesses and HPC (high-performance computing) environments to ramp up performance and density while driving down operational, capital and power costs. In addition, Intel unveiled that it will offer a "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor optimized for supercomputing, while the chip maker boasted that 402 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world are powered by its processors. Rival AMD took the No. 1 spot, with the Opteron-powered "Jaguar" computer from Cray knocking off IBM's "RoadRunner" at the top of the list. Here are a few of the new systems OEMs showed off at the show.
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Polycom is unveiling its ATX 300 offering, designed to enable businesses to work with audiovisual integrators to create customized telepresence environments based on Polycom technology. Polycom officials say this differentiates ATX 300 from the turnkey solutions rivals like Cisco and Tandberg offer.
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IBM researchers at the Supercomputing show say they and their university partners have hit two key milestones in their efforts to develop a computer that can monitor data and act on it in ways similar to a human brain. The development of such a computer could help businesses more logically act on the rapidly growing streams of data that are generated.
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Microsoft released a security advisory to help users mitigate a bug affecting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2. The bug lies within the SMB protocol and affects SMB versions 1 and 2. SMB is the file sharing protocol used by default on Windows-based computers.
NetSuite and InsideView recently paired up to release an application that ports social networking functionality to both CRM and Enterprise Resource Planning. By doing so, the companies join others that have recently been attempting to leverage social networking within a business-process context.
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas is the first healthcare facility in the world to achieve a LEED Platinum Certification by the USGBC. This hospital was rated in six key categories, Sustainable Site development, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, Indoor Air Quality, and Innovation & Design.
Earlier this year Samsung Electronics announced the launch of Samsung Blue Earth, an environmentally friendly mobile phone with a full touch screen. The phone was first showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona and now we’re showing it to you. According to Samsung, Blue Earth is the first solar powered full-touch screen phone.
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SGI is showing off its scalable Altix UV supercomputer aimed at HPC environments and high-end enterprise workloads. The system can scale up to 2,048 processing cores with a performance of up to 18.6 teraflops. SGI is unveiling the system, which is powered by Intel’s upcoming “Nehalem EX” Xeon processors, at the Supercomputing 2009 show.
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Nvidia is giving attendees at the Supercomputing show a look at the upcoming Tesla GPUs that will be based on the company's CUDA architecture, code-named Fermi. Nvidia is continuing to push GPUs into the general-purpose computing space, an effort begun in 2006 when the company first introduced the CUDA architecture for massively parallel-processing workloads. Chip makers Intel and AMD are now working to integrate more graphics capabilities into their CPUs, and OEMs are beginning to build systems powered by GPUs.
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Outsourcing continues to present advantages to companies looking to streamline and save costs, the CIO of professional-services provider Deloitte LLP insisted during the Global Sourcing Forum and Expo in New York City. While working to dispel some of the myths that have evidently become attached to outsourcing, he also noted arguments about off-shoring being ultimately bad for the U.S. economy. A combination of anemic business spending and possible anti-offshoring government policies could put pressure on traditional offshoring destinations such as India.
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A new survey reveals most health care organizations are not properly prepared to deal with pending privacy and security compliance regulations required under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
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Intel is rolling out a device aimed at helping people with reading disabilities or blindness hear the written word. The Intel Reader takes printed text and reads it aloud, and can be combined with Intel’s Portable Capture Station, which collects and stores large amounts of text, such as book chapters or entire books. The goal is give the 55 million U.S. citizens with reading disabilities access to the books and other printed texts that everyone can read, according to Intel’s Digital Health Group.
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Former HP boss Carly Fiorina is joining ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman as one-time tech executives seeking public office in California. Fiorina, a Republican, will challenge three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer in 2010. Fiorina, who left HP in 2006, said job creation, government spending and health care will be top issues for her campaign.She also addressed her spotty voting record, saying she was wrong not to participate in the political process.
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Combining Adobe's LiveCycle Enterprise Suite with IntraLinks' solutions for secure collaboration, companies aim to turn the document-intensive clinical trial process into a paperless experience.
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Motorola's ruggedized MC3100 Series of mobile devices features gun, turret or straight-shooter form factors, keypad options, faster processors and a choice of Microsoft operating systems.
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