Hospital comes up with Philips technology to manage critical patient info

Tawam, an Abu Dhabi-based hospital which is affiliated with Johns Hopkins International and Philips Medical Systems has announced today that it successfully implemented one of the advanced Data Management Systems in the world.

Patient data is collected from life support equipment and is centrally stored online using the Philips’ IntelliVue Clinical Information Portfolio CC Clinical Information System, Thereby providing fast access to the staff anywhere in the hospital.

The new solution is currently connected to around 20 beds in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. It includes Philips Clinical Decision Support, an application which can identify the symptoms of sepsis and then provide defense against it. The system was live at the end of August. It is collaboration between Philips Medical Systems and Tawam.

The system is user friendly and very efficient. The Chairman of the Department of Critical care Medicine at Tawam hospital said that it had a positive result on how they treated the patients.

Diederik Zeven, General Manager for Philips Medical Systems Middle East said ‘Philips is the only clinical systems solution provider that is able to cover the ‘continuum of care’ for critical documentation in Intensive Care and Anesthesia in one platform.’

The hospital has planned to expand IntelliVue Clinical Information Portfolio installation thereby covering the High Dependency Unit and its pediatric and neonatal Intensive Care Units. The system will link to the Hospital Information System which is currently being planned for the hospital.  Clinical Information System supports the monitoring requirements set by the Joint Commission International Hospital Accreditation, which is the biggest  accreditor of healthcare organizations in the United States.

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December 16, 2007 | Filed Under Tech News | Leave a Comment 

How to make money from Videos and Images?

Money

Sharing videos online is a prominent way of making money. You may have come across many video sharing sites on the web. Ok, I know a popular video sharing site known as Flixya. It works by sharing adsense revenue with you 50/50. First off, you need to have a adsense publisher account. The work is simple. All you got to do is submit videos from popular sharing sites like Youtube, Video Google etc and provide them your adsense publisher id. Once done, your videos will be displayed on the pages along with adsense ads and split the ad impressions 50/50. This actually works real well. Why not give it a try today?

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December 15, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tips n Tricks | Leave a Comment 

Quick fixes for Windows-Part 6

 

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“Whenever I connect the external hard drives and flash drives to my PC, I see Autoplay feature working just as it does in CD-ROMs. What if malware gets on one of the devices and if Autoplay gives it a path onto my system?”

Quick Fix: Best option I can suggest you here is to disable Autoplay feature for all of the system’s drives.

If you are using XP, you can press Windows-R and then type the command gpedit.msc, and then press Enter. Now as you can see the tree pane on the left, select Local Computer Policy\ Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System. Now you can scroll in the right pane and then double click Turn off Autoplay. Click Enabled in the Turn off Autoplay Properties dialog box. Once done, select All drives from drop-down list. Click OK.

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December 14, 2007 | Filed Under Software, Tips n Tricks | Leave a Comment 

How to extend your cell phone battery life?

Have you ever thought of saving your cell battery life? Or wondered why people have problems with their phone due to battery? Here are some quick tips on how to save your cell phone battery life and keep the conversation going.

  1. Screen brightness can be a major factor for reducing the battery life. Best option is to keep the screen brightness to around 50% or less. Initially you will find difference, but it can be a great way to save its life.

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    December 13, 2007 | Filed Under Featured, Phones, Tips n Tricks | 3 Comments 

    Here are my Holiday Gifts

    Holiday Gifts

     

    Tired of spending money buying gifts for Xmas? Why not keep something for yourself. Here’s what I found which can bring some joy to you this Christmas. The free downloads.

    1. How about some Christmas Screen Savers? Download some cute ones and start sharing.
    2. Now for those of you who are serious about your computer systems, time to speed up your system’s boot time.
    3. Moving on, here’s an interesting application I found which can help in cleaning privacy threats in your machine.
    4. Fourth and fifth are for the commoners who love capturing photos. Firstly, a piece of software that can help you in retrieving digital photos from corrupted media cards.

    5. Secondly, the other piece of software alternative to Photoshop.

    Ok now what? Wondering where to get these from? Here’s it to your convenience. All stuff mentioned above can be downloaded here.

    So keep something for yourself while you shell out for others. Cheers!

     

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    December 12, 2007 | Filed Under Downloads | Leave a Comment 

    Reasons to avoid Visual Studio 2008

    With Visual Studio 2008 launching, developers look more thrilled about its release and can’t wait to get it on their systems. But there are some reasons which make Visual Studio 2008 different from the prior versions. Check this video which I found through the net which explains the reasons as to why avoid upgrading to Visual Studio 2008.


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    December 11, 2007 | Filed Under Software, Videos | Leave a Comment 

    Quick fixes for Windows-Part 5

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    “I always go for the latest Windows security patches, but sometimes I neglect other programs which stand as a security risk when they are not up-to-date.”

    Fast Fix: Now to test the security of the apps, you need to use software called Secunia Software Inspector which is available freely. The process is simple. This software doesn’t need any kind of installation. Once you have it on your pc, click start and follow the instructions. Here the scan requires Sun Java JRE 1.5.0_12 version which works with Windows 2000 SP4 and later editions.

    What does this normally do? Well, it identifies all the apps that are outdated. If you want for more details, then click the plus sign next to each entry. Many applications on the disk leave older versions when installing updates. This is mainly to ensure backward-compatibility. Remember to backup the system before you start deleting older versions of concerned apps.

     

    “Experts always have an opinion about defragmentation saying it helps the system improve its performance. But the problem here is, finding time to defrag the disks is getting more difficult.”

    Fast Fix: Well, defragmention can be a good way to go if you find that your system performance is deteriorating. Make windows do the disk-defragmenting. Please refer back to part 3-Quick Fix 3. Here you should make a change. When editing the command line in Advanced Properties, change to cmd.exe /c defrag c: -f -v > “c:\doc\report.txt” (the path to your report file may be different).

    When coming to Vista, do the same, but change the text in the ‘Add arguments (optional)’ box to /c defrag -c -f -v -w > “c:\doc\report.txt” (the path may differ).

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    December 10, 2007 | Filed Under Software, Tips n Tricks | Leave a Comment 

    Quick fixes for Windows-Part 4

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    “Right mouse button has commands like delete cut and copy. To copy a file, every time I need to open new Explorer window (or lose place in the current Explorer window) to use paste command that completes the operation. (I can also drag and drop from right to left folder-tree pane)”

    Quick Fix: Coming to the point, let’s find a solution to complete the process. First off, invoke a prompt that asks for destination folder by adding commands such as ‘Copy to Folder’ and ‘Move to Folder’ to your right-click menu.

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    December 9, 2007 | Filed Under Software, Tips n Tricks | Leave a Comment 

    Microsoft Entity Framework Beta 3 released

    Microsoft has released Entity Framework Beta 3 and has officially announced that ADO.NET 2.0 and third party database vendors have agreed to support the framework. Entity Framework Beta 3 provides data access APIs for .NET 3.5. It is the next version of Framework Beta 2 which was released in August.

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    December 8, 2007 | Filed Under Software | Leave a Comment 

    Lunarwire.com return to the moon


    LunarWire.com Return to the Moon

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    December 7, 2007 | Filed Under Videos | Leave a Comment 

    Boy gets triggered by a computer game

     

    A campaign by the mother of a ten-year-old boy who suffered an epileptic fit triggered by a computer game has finally persuaded a leading manufacturer to change how it vets its products.

    The boy’s mother rushed to his room when she heard him screaming. As she entered the room, she found him twitching uncontrollably. Tests reveal that it was caused by flashing lights on his Nintendo game console.

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    December 6, 2007 | Filed Under Gaming, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

    Quick Fixes for Windows-Part 3

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    I have been paying for the net connection but my router isn’t up-to-date.

    Quick Fix: First you need to check whether your router supports technologies for faster connections. I would suggest you going for Microsoft’s Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool. This tool can help you in checking your router properties. If there’s a corporate firewall, then you may not see accurate results. When you test, it can interrupt connections which are running, so it would be better if you check when you have your internet connection inactive.

    After the results are displayed, if you come to a conclusion that your system doesn’t support technology for fast connections, then you may have to go for a new router.

    Internet explorer looks unusable for browsing web.

    Quick Fix: First reset IE’s options to its original state. Toolbar configurations, list of favorites and others will be unaffected and browser add-ons will be disabled. Cookies, browsing history and other settings will be set back to their default values. Follow the points closely. Open IE (internet Explorer). Now on the toolbar choose Tools->Internet Options. Select Advanced tab, click Reset. Confirm it by clicking Reset again and then Close and OK two times. When you are done, restart IE and watch the changes.

    Programs can protect data by checking PC’s disks for fixing problems. Sadly, I rarely take time to use the tools.

    Quick Fix: Planning a task to handle this on its own at regular intervals can take only a few minutes. First, check your disk manually. Go to Start, then Run (or you can use shortcut by pressing Windows-R) command line opens. Now type cmd.exe /c echo y|chkdsk c: /f /x, then press Enter. ‘Cmd.exe’ is the command processor, which opens a command-prompt window in Windows.

    The ‘/c’ switch tells command prompt to run the commands that follow, including the chkdsk utility. It will examine your drive for errors. (You can change ‘/c’ to /k if you want the command-prompt window to remain open so that you can see any screen messages that may appear.) Here, we will check the C: drive with the fix (/f) function and then tell to lock the disk (/x) if necessary while the scan takes place. (The drive letter and switches may differ; type chkdsk /? at a command prompt to see all your choices.) If you’re checking Windows drive, the command will not work if Windows is running but will plan a check for the next time when you restart the system. This is where the ‘echo y|’ portion comes in: it sends a “yes” answer to approve this option.

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    December 5, 2007 | Filed Under Software, Tips n Tricks | Leave a Comment 

    2K games releases downloadable content for Bioshack

    BioShock

    Take-Two Interactive’s publishing label, 2K games, announced that its top-rated title available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows® called Bioshack has come out with new downloadable content for players on both platforms. The content comes with Plasmids, interface upgrades and others which can be downloaded freely from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace, through an Xbox 360 Title Update.

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    December 4, 2007 | Filed Under Gaming, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

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