North York General Hospital in Toronto will use IBM’s InfoSphere and Cognos applications to aggregate medical data into a standard format and a user-friendly dashboard view. – NYGH (North York General Hospital),
a multisite teaching hospital in Toronto,
will become the first Canadian hospital to integrate both IBM’s data aggregation software and a dashboard tool.
Big Blue has optimized its InfoSphere Clinical Analytics application
to process the data-intensive workl…
NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 26, 2011; TOUR TO BEGIN WITH APRIL 6
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL SHOW
WITH
SPECIAL GUESTS LOW AND ELUVIUM
 Explosions in the Sky |
Explosions In The Sky will
release its fifth album, titled Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, April 26 on Temporary Residence
Ltd. Recorded at Sonic Ranch in El Paso TX by John Congleton and produced by the band, Take Care, Take Care,
Take Care is the West Texas quartet’s first full length studio effort since 2007′s All Of A Sudden I Miss
Everyone. The record was mixed by Congleton at Austin TX’s Public Hi Fi studio and features artwork by
longtime visual collaborator Esteban Rey.
Tickets are on sale now for Explosions In The Sky’s biggest headlining show to date: April 6 at New York City’s famed
Radio City Music Hall featuring special guests Low and a first ever solo piano performance by Eluvium. The Radio City date is the first
confirmed stop on Explosions In The Sky’s forthcoming 2011 tour, whose UK/Europe leg commences May 16 in
Dublin and runs through May 25 in Amsterdam. Further dates will be announced as they are confirmed.
A second snippet of music from Take Care, Take Care, Take Care can be previewed at explosionsinthesky.com. A first 47-second sample appeared on the site
in conjunction with the announcement of the Radio City show.
Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Tracklisting:
1. Last Known Surroundings
2. Human Qualities
3. Trembling Hands
4. Be Comfortable, Creature
5. Postcard From 1952
6. Let Me Back In
Explosions in the Sky 2011 Tour Dates
April 6 New York, NY, Radio City Music Hall
May 16 Ireland, Dublin, Vicar St
May 17 UK, Manchester, Academy
May 19 UK, London, Roundhouse
May 20 France, Paris, Bataclan
May 22 Germany, Berlin, Postbahnhof
May 23 Germany, Koln, Essigfabrik
May 24 Belgium, Brussels, Ancienne Belgique
May 25 Holland, Amsterdam, Paradiso
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Hans-Georg Wagner, the IT chief for the European Medicines Agency, the equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, talks to eWEEK about IT systems, data analysis and interoperability. – The equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the EMA
(European Medicines Agency), based in London, is a public health agency in
the European Union that approves drugs and provides guidelines for health care
providers and pharmaceutical firms for a region spanning from the Arctic Circl…
Health care alliance Premier will use IBM applications such as Initiate and WebSphere on a Power7 system to attempt to unify patient data for both providers and payers. – IBM and Premier Healthcare Alliance, an
organization dedicated to health care performance improvement, have announced a
partnership to build a new open-standard, data-metric platform to allow hospitals in Premier’s network to share data.
Premier serves more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals and 70,000-…
Motion Computing announces its CL900 ultralight, rugged tablet for health care, retail and other verticals. – Motion
Computing has introduced its announced
this week at CES, Engadget reports.
With
its light weight of 2.1 pounds and 8 hours of battery life, the CL900 is
suitable for doctors as they move around all day from room to room. In
addition, the IP-52 rated exterior surface makes the CL900 id…
So try playing smart and have the support that provides you more than just the support. When you have so much advantage in taking support from online remote tech support then why to go for something else?
Model Brandi Glanville, ex-wife of actor Eddie Cibrian, has washed her hands of their relationship and “couldn’t care less†about his recent engagement to country singer LeAnn Rimes — even though her former love rival is sporting a rock worth approximately $85,000. On Monday, the scandal-stained adultress, 28, announced her engagement to former CSI: Miami [...]
IT provider NIIT Technologies has acquired the Preferr EHR application, as it builds a health care IT business in the Orlando area. – IT company NIIT Technologies announced it will add an electronic health record and referral management software as a
service platform as it enters the health care space.
NIIT will launch its health
care IT business in Orlando, Fla.
Now in use by health care professionals in central Florida, …
In 2011, we’ll see EHRs reach the adoption phase, data centers get virtualized, stand-alone medical devices connect to EHRs and m-health take off, according to industry experts. – As we move into 2011, the
Obama administration’s meaningful-use requirements governing health care IT and
EHRs (electronic health records) will continue to influence how health care
companies adopt technology to improve patient care.
In 2010, companies began to purchase EHR applications, but …
University of Washington Medicine will expand its use of Microsoft Amalga data-aggregation software to find ways to use the results of basic medical research to improve patient care. – Microsoft and University of Washington Medicine have signed an
agreement to collaborate on biomedical informatics technology. Under the deal,
UW Medicine will expand its use of Microsoft’s Amalga UIS (Unified Intelligence System) data-aggregation platform to further
research and medical education…
Defending the government”s use of phone taps, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said these powers were necessary to deal with issues like tax evasion but it has to be exercised with care. Addressing at the inaugural session of the India Corporate Week here, Dr. Singh said: “We are aware of the nervousness in [...]
Can the Gulf attract medical tourists?
COULD the Persian Gulf become the next hot destination for medical tourism? That was one of the questions on the minds of delegates at a health conference this week in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The idea may have legs.
For one thing, medical tourism continues to boom globally despite the downturn. High prices and queues in the over-stretched health systems of the rich world have driven many people to seek hip replacements, plastic surgery and other care in Thailand, India and Costa Rica. Deloitte, a firm of consultants, forecasts that the number of Americans going abroad for care will rise to 1.6m in 2012, up from 750,000 in 2007. …
Consumers are turning to smartphones and tablets PC to help them monitor their health. This is also leading to the consumerization of health care technology. – Consumers are increasingly using smartphone and tablet
PCs, such as the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, to monitor their own
health. This, according to a Dec. 6 report from research firm Ovum, is leading
to the consumerization of health care technology.
The report quot;2011 Trends to Wat…
The new guidance includes information clarifying that a broad range of employers meet the eligibility requirements. – HealthPass, a New York City-based nonprofit commercial health insurance
exchange for small to midsize businesses, announced that it has posted on its Website
information on the just-released Internal Revenue Service final guidance on the
small business health care tax credits. The small-business …
France’s First Lady Carla Bruni will visit the Safdarjung Hospital and the New Delhi-based Naz Foundation Trust, an NGO working on HIV/AIDS and sexual health on Monday. Most people around the world know Bruni as an Italian-born French songwriter, singer and former model, but few know that she is also the brand ambassador for the [...]
Dell’s Dr. Harry Greenspun talks to eWEEK about his new book, electronic health records and how to re-engineer health care using technology. – When the Obama administration shaped its health care plan, Dr. Harry Greenspun, Dell’s chief medical officer, weighed
in with his recommendation as co-chair of a task force on health care IT. Now,
many of Greenspun’s concepts on health care and IT management appear in the
federal HITECH (Health I…
Nursing homes may not provide the profits that buy-out firms expect
THEY are best known for eyeing glittery targets such as swanky retailers and landmark buildings. But private-equity firms have also recently shown interest in a much less glamorous business: nursing homes. Since 2005 there have been at least 46 buy-outs of nursing-home operators worldwide, according to Dealogic, a research firm. Private-equity firms now own three of the five largest chains of homes in the United States, including the biggest, HCR ManorCare, which was bought by Carlyle for more than $6 billion in 2007.
The buy-out firms reckon there is money to be made from the ageing of populations in rich countries. In 2009 Americans spent $104 billion on nursing-home care, up 20% from 2005, according to Kalorama Information, a research firm. Since people are living longer but not necessarily healthier lives, demand for residential care will keep increasing. Nursing homes have stable cashflows, since much of their revenues come from government reimbursements and are thus relatively immune to economic downturns. …
IBM and a European consortium will test TClouds on a Portuguese smart energy grid and in an Italian home health-care system to increase resiliency and lower cost. – A European consortium that includes IBM, security provider Sirrix, a Portuguese energy provider, and European academic and corporate research organizations have unveiled a virtual infrastructure project called Trustworthy Clouds, or TClouds.
The group aims to make a cloud that’s secure and private …
Autonomy rolls out its Meaning-Based Healthcare Platform to allow doctors to search for patterns and concepts in Electronic Health Records and medical documents. – Autonomy, a
maker of enterprise information-management software, has developed a
new platform that allows health professionals to search through the
patterns of unstructured data in electronic health records,
journals and textbooks.
With the Meaning-Based Healthcare software
platform, anno…
The convergence of mobile telephony and health care is under way
BILL GATES seems to relish being the skunk at the garden party. The former boss of Microsoft, now a global-health philanthropist, was invited to address a big “m-health” conference in Washington, DC, this week. Some 2,400 proponents of delivering health services over wireless telecoms, from the private and public sectors, gathered to celebrate the dozens of pilot projects under way around the world.
Mr Gates, however, warned the participants not to celebrate too soon. Just because an m-health pilot scheme appears to work in some remote locale, he insisted, don’t “fool yourself” into thinking it really works unless it can be replicated at scale. Rafael Anta of the Inter-American Development Bank was even more cautious: “We know little about impact and nothing about business models.” …
