Sharon Linsenbach

If you attended President Obama’s March 26 online Town Hall meeting, you were likely more interested in how the president would answer questions about the economy, health care and higher education costs. But what you might not have noticed was that the White House was using an application called Google Moderator, hosted on the application […]

DroboPro offers more drives, capacity and versatility than the original storage device, says Jillian Mansolf, senior vice president of Data Robotics. The new eight-drive system connects to a Mac or a PC via USB 2.0, FireWire 800 and now iSCSI, and includes business-class features such as dual-disk redundancy, “smart” expanding volumes, and new triple interface […]

In the memo, Microsoft says it will continue support for Windows XP beyond its latest retirement date of May 30, 2009. Unconfirmed rumors are also circulating that Microsoft will allow Hewlett-Packard to continue shipping computers with Windows XP until April 30, 2010. If that’s true, it’s likely that Microsoft will let other PC vendors do […]

Backup and storage vendor Asigra has been a player in the midmarket and enterprise online backup market for more than 15 years, and it has some advice for neophytes and startup vendors-be flexible, embrace vendor neutrality, avoid proprietary solutions and, above all, don’t underestimate the power of the channel. “We’ve been doing this for quite […]

As new competition emerges from Cisco Systems’ new virtualized first blade servers, Dell announces enhancements to its EqualLogic line aimed at easing consolidation of storage, servers and network services into one architecture that’s further optimized to allow for virtualization. Data center technologies including virtualization and storage solutions continue to be a bright spot in an […]

Patient safety could be at risk unless GE Healthcare and other IT heavyweights persuade the Federal Communications Commission to protect the wireless medical telemetry channel from possible interference. When cable converts to a digital signal in 2009, wireless frequencies called “white spaces” will become available, including channels 36 and 38, which are adjacent to the […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-Microsoft’s doing all it can to empower consumers to find, analyze, manage and securely share their own personal health information in the name of greater knowledge and, ultimately, better health, the company says. Steve Aylward, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Industry general manager, told attendees at Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences Developer and […]

Despite increased awareness of access control issues, healthcare providers continue to struggle with security and compliance related to user access, according to the results of a survey conducted at the Health Information Management and Systems Society 2008 conference in February. The survey, conducted by enterprise provisioning and access control software vendor Courion at the show […]

Microsoft partner Proscape has developed a customer relationship management system that it says makes pharmaceutical sales representatives work more efficiently. Proscape Technologies co-founder and President Derek Pollack said the closed-loop marketing system takes into account the potential physician customer’s profile before the sales call happens and also gathers, analyzes and delivers data during and after […]

Microsoft says Web 2.0 is the technology that will help consumers take control of their health care and health information. Ben Flock, a Microsoft Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry advisor, told attendees during his closing keynote at Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences Developer and Solutions Conference, held April 22 through 24 in Atlantic City, N.J., […]

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center is increasing its ability to recruit and hire top physicians and slash administrative costs by implementing a secure, paperless enterprise document signing and management solution from IntelliSafe Technologies. With five other hospitals within 25 miles, Englewood was looking for a competitive advantage when hiring new physicians, said Gary Wilhelm, the […]

With comparisons to both Microsoft’s Xbox platform and the PayPal online payment platform, Microsoft aims to correct common misperceptions about its HealthVault platform. Grad Conn, Healthcare and Life Sciences senior director for global consumer strategy, Microsoft, addressed attendees at Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences Developer Conference held April 22 through 24 in Atlantic City to […]