When I was at MIT, a postdoc heard I had just picked up a brand spanking new Compaq 386 with dual 5.25″ and 3.5″ floppy drives. He wanted my computer bad for he needed it to do some robotics programming. This being my brand new computer with all the bells and whistles, I was very [...]
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A Tribute
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Apple, iPad, Steve Jobs on October 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Philips Continues Buying Spree
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, telemedicine, Uncategorized, tagged acquisition, Boston Scientific, GE, Philips, Respironics, Siemens healthcare, telehealth on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Philips Electronics announced on Friday that it will acquire Respironics for $66/share or about $5.13 billion, a 24% premium. This is the third and largest healthcare-centric acquisition that Philips has made in December. The first was Emergin, a small company (~100 employees, estimated $18 million in 2007 sales) and provider of medical alarming systems [...]
Same Place, Different Name
Posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have changed the name of this site to Chilmark Research from the former name HITanalyst. The reason for this is two-fold. First, I wanted to create a site that had its own unique domain address which would allow me to both expand the services I will offer in the future and also provide an [...]
Hidden Costs of Deployment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged costs, healthcare, IT, software on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Over on the eZine, Health Data Management there is a poll asking whether or not your software vendor was upfront about the hidden costs of implementing their software. Guess which way the poll is leaning? Over two-thirds of respondents state that no, their software vendor was not upfront about hidden costs! At first, one may [...]
PodTech:Editor\’s Choice: Stanford IT Doctor
Posted in HIT, Uncategorized, tagged healthcare, IT, physician's view on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Quick 7min podcast of interview IT blogger Robert Scoble had with Stanford Childrens Hospital pediatrician Christopher Longhurst who also works within the IT dept of this hospital. There is a much longer 47min version over on Scoble’s blog. [podtech content=http://media1.podtech.net/media/2007/10/PID_012773/Podtech_StanfordDoctorEC.flv&postURL=http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1644/editors-choice-stanford-it-doctor&totalTime=460000&breadcrumb=cb17ce880de94e919dc0c619eaf62294]
Cnet Article on Microsoft’s Healthcare Play
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The title had promise, Microsoft: Better software can prevent medical mishaps and the intro began with a discussion about MS’s work in the UK on a common user interface for the healthcare provider (nice idea but has a snowball’s chance in hell of being successful here in the States). Unfortunately, the article quickly devolves into [...]
New Study Reports Women Search More…
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Men are less likely than women to search online for health-related information — for themselves or others, according to findings presented Sunday at the American Psychological Association, the Washington Post reports.” Uh DUH! Hardly call this late breaking news (heck it was based on surveys done between 2000 & 2004) and certainly feel sorry for [...]
