Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Healthcare industry using technology to its advantage
The HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference and exhibition was held during the last week of February in New Orleans. It’s an annual affair that brings together professionals in the healthcare IT and Management Systems fields. With that in mind, this issue of “Bridging the Gap” places extra emphasis on healthcare and the [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
HIMSS holds annual conference in New Orleans
Approximately 25,000 people traveled to New Orleans to attend the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) from February 25 to March 1 in New Orleans. Fujitsu was one of over 850 exhibitors, showcasing a wide variety of mobility, imaging and biometric security solutions.
Our innovative mobile solutions decrease operational costs and [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Initiative launched to provide free electronic prescribing to all physicians in America
On January 16, a coalition of the nation’s most prominent technology companies and leading healthcare organizations (including Aetna, Allscripts, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Sprint Nextel, SureScripts, WellPoint, and Wolters Kluwer Health) announced a national initiative to provide free electronic prescribing for every physician in America. The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI) is [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Fujitsu solutions widely adopted in healthcare industry
Fujitsu is a leader in providing cost-effective, service-enhancing mobile solutions for hospitals, clinics and visiting nurse associations. Using our innovative solutions, healthcare practitioners can decrease operational costs and paperwork while improving the quality of patient care. Fujitsu has the widest selection of Tablet PC products in the market. Our tablet experience is based on more [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Scanner technology being used to archive medical information
HealthCare remains a paper-intensive and minimally automated and digitized industry. CBS Market watch reported that an estimated 90% of all patient information remains on paper. Widespread efforts are currently in process to scan paper records into electronic format.
Inherent problems associated with paper-based patient records include:
A sizeable amount of money associated with healthcare is spent for [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Article emphasizes importance of PRIMEPOWER in the “Real World”
In an article recently posted on the ServerWatch website entitled “Server Snapshots: Fujitsu in the Real World”, author Drew Robb discusses how Fujitsu servers are used to consolidate the data centers of one of the nation’s leading diversified providers of business information and related products and services. According to the article, “First American Real Estate [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Addressing the thermal requirements of high-end servers
In the special “Innovative Manufacturing and Engineering” issue of the Fujitsu Scientific & Technical Journal (FSTJ), one of the white papers discusses in detail the cooling technologies developed for Fujitsu high-end servers. The paper describes the cooling methods at several different levels: server cabinet level, system board level, and CPU package level. In the paper, [...]