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 

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 

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 

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 

NTT Communications,VNPT Team Up for a Joint Venture in Vietnam

The global ICT solution provider, NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) and Vietnam’s largest telecom operator, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) will sign an agreement to form a joint-venture company in Hanoi in early January 2008 with a vision to provide data center services.

In Vietnam, the demand for laid off IT facilities is increasing as network infrastructure from companies who wish to run internet related businesses increases and the growth of Internet is driving the need for data centers.

Data centers will be established in Hanoi in early 2008 and early 2009 in Ho Chi Minh City to provide services. The data centers will be offering hosting services and collocation which will ensure complete redundancy for air conditioning, power generation and others. Customers can benefit from having direct access to global networks within data centers. Camera surveillance is provided as security inside data centers.

NTT Com is likely to take a 40% stake and 60% share is owned by VNPT. 900 million yen is the estimated capitalization. The company will start off with 60 employees and will have a CEO.

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December 3, 2007 | Filed Under Tech News, Wireless | Leave a Comment 

PS3 outsells Wii in Japan for the first time

PS3

Sony Playstation 3 overtook the Wii from Nintendo for the first time in Japan, thereby taking a vision that Sony will dominate in the global video market.

Playstation 3 which was launched a year ago sold about 183,217 PS3 consoles in Japan in November, thereby beating Wii sales which sold around 159,193 consoles according to a game magazine. The game industry was dominated by Sony for about a decade with previous editions of Playstations but had to lose its prestige to the Wii with its new technology of motion sensor in the control unit.

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December 2, 2007 | Filed Under Gaming, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

Hurry! Announcing the HP Pavilion DV6568SE Notebook for best prices

HP

The countdown has already begun! Are you looking for an advanced digital entertainment? This one probably should do it. The new HP Pavilion DV6568SE Notebook PC comes with the leading edge mobile performance and communication features, it has a Dual headphone with Altec lansing audio that can help you enjoy and share your new entertainment. Also contains Intel Mobile Dual Core technology which enables you to use multiple demanding applications such as playing games, DVD burning and more.

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December 1, 2007 | Filed Under Laptops | Leave a Comment 

Facebook restores the new advertising tool

Facebook

Facebook Inc has renovated a new advertising system that can flicker private complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other corporations.

The 55 million people who use Facebook will be given control whether they want to join in for the three week program that movement’s responsive information about online purchases and other activities.

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November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

World to see a Cyber War?

Cyber war

Based on a report published on Thursday, one of the biggest threats to the security in the next decade would be waged through computers resulting in a “Cyber Cold War”.

According to McAfee, an internet security company, about 120 countries are coming up with ways to use internet to target financial markets, government systems etc. McAfee said that intelligence agencies were testing other states networks to make out their weakness and their methods were growing as time goes.

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November 29, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Security, Tech News | 4 Comments 

Cyber Monday kicks off well

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According to an internet research firm, American consumers stuck shopping sites on Monday, giving a robust start to the shopping season, resulting in good sales.

ComScore Inc reported that about $733 million were spent by consumers for shopping on Monday, resulting in a 21 percent high when compared to the same day a year ago. It was expected that the sales figure would surpass the $700 million mark.

According to ComScore, the first Monday after Thanksgiving was not the busiest day for retailers however. Wednesday, Dec 13 was the busiest day last year bringing in $667 million in sales. Monday after Thanksgiving was actually the 12th busiest day for the 2006 holiday period.

However Monday, known as Cyber Monday, represented the big sales, as consumers got back to office and started clicking to shop. Monday’s sales resulted in 84 percent jump from average daily online spending, according to ComScore.

The number of buyers online saw a rise to around 38 percent compared to last year, according to ComScore. Average dollars spent per head was 12 percent down. ComScore chairman said that he believed deeper price discount depressed sales. ComScore said that about $10.7 billion has been spent online from Nov 1 through Nov 26, thereby gaining 17 percent compared to last year.

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

Nintendo joins hands with NTT to put forward Wii web access

Nintendo

Video game Company Nintendo and telecoms operator NTT said they would cooperate in Japan in putting forward web access of Nintendo’s Wii game console.

Wii’s internet connection looks important for Nintendo as the company in the coming march has planned to launch a service known as WiiWare, which allows Wii users to purchase game software titles through internet.

On Thursday call centres will be started jointly by Nintendo and NTT’s two units NTT East and NTT west in order to provide consultation and support for Wii’s internet connection. They will offer a cut-rate start up package, which will provide equipment for Web access. A growing user base represents a drawing pool of customers for the Wii.

Since its launch last year, Wii which features motion sensing controller sold around 13 million units by the end of September. The executive vice president of NTT East Senior said at a news conference that he hoped the fibre optic service would become popular as the Wii. “I think we won a powerful ally to hit our target to boost fiber-optic subscribers to 20 million by the end of March 2011”, he said.

 

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Gaming | Leave a Comment 

UK TV rivals to launch online TV on-demand service

UK’s TV networks such as BBC, Channel 4, ITV are planning to launch a joint online TV on-demand service that will provide content from all channels. The unnamed new service is likely to be launched in 2008.

The new service will include free downloading, purchases through internet, streaming and more. Shows will be locally produced content and perhaps US and non-British content. According to reports so far, the new service is believed to be available to the residents of UK only.

BBC has described the importance of the new service as remarkable, To take the deal to a more viewpoint it ought to be like NBC,CBS and Fox holding together for a joint gateway where their shows would be available on demand, for download, purchase etc. But the biggest winner will be the British viewer who will have access to TV content on the net. Recently BBC had problems with its iPlayer service which had delays, then was attacked for being available to Windows users only.
The channels launching the service said that the new service will be first launched online and then it will be made available on other platforms as well. Viewers will be able to watch the content free. The venture will be owned similarly and will work as independent.

Broadcasters hope by aggregating their content into one service they will cover competition from the prior services provided by other Internet upstarts like Joost and others.

For more on the topic check Media Guardian

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November 27, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Tech News | Leave a Comment 

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