Sharon Linsenbach

Microsoft partner Proscape has developed a customer relationship management system that it says makes pharmaceutical sales representatives work more efficiently. Proscape Technologies co-founder and President Derek Pollack said the closed-loop marketing system takes into account the potential physician customer’s profile before the sales call happens and also gathers, analyzes and delivers data during and after […]

Microsoft says Web 2.0 is the technology that will help consumers take control of their health care and health information. Ben Flock, a Microsoft Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry advisor, told attendees during his closing keynote at Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences Developer and Solutions Conference, held April 22 through 24 in Atlantic City, N.J., […]

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center is increasing its ability to recruit and hire top physicians and slash administrative costs by implementing a secure, paperless enterprise document signing and management solution from IntelliSafe Technologies. With five other hospitals within 25 miles, Englewood was looking for a competitive advantage when hiring new physicians, said Gary Wilhelm, the […]

With comparisons to both Microsoft’s Xbox platform and the PayPal online payment platform, Microsoft aims to correct common misperceptions about its HealthVault platform. Grad Conn, Healthcare and Life Sciences senior director for global consumer strategy, Microsoft, addressed attendees at Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences Developer Conference held April 22 through 24 in Atlantic City to […]

Microsoft partner Accent on Integration has rolled out a patient safety screening tool at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that can improve early detection of hospital-acquired infections, with the potential to save thousands of lives. Sepsis is the body’s systemic response to infection, which in severe cases can cause organ failure and death. It’s estimated that […]

Microsoft and its partners can drive health care innovation by focusing on adapting horizontal technologies to fulfill consumers’ health care demands rather than developing industry-specific solutions, according to a company official. “The future lies in developing consumer-driven applications that leverage horizontal technologies,” Steve Aylward, general manager of Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences Industry group, told […]

In this time of economic uncertainty and tight budgets, governors nationwide aren’t trimming IT budgets; they’re spending as usual in the hope that IT initiatives can bring increased efficiency and new savings. In its annual “State of the States: Technology Initiatives and Implications” report, government research firm Input found no evidence that state governments would […]

IBM is banned from bidding on federal government contracts while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigates a charge Big Blue colluded with EPA employees to win a March 2006 contract with the agency for $80 million. The computer services vendor said in a statement it was “blindsided” by the suspension that bars the vendor from […]

You may think you’ve seen the last of a departed employee, but if your hospital doesn’t have a comprehensive identity and access management plan, you may be vulnerable to a security breach. “The disablement of user accounts during the employee termination process is a gaping flaw in most organizations’ policy,” said Kurt Johnson, vice president […]

Voltaire high-performance switches are helping financial services firms out-trade their competition and reap huge financial benefits. Voltaire’s Grid Director switches are high-bandwidth, low-latency switches based on the InfiniBand standard, and allow the formation of high-performance computing clusters from industry standard hardware. The company also manufactures Fibre Channel and Ethernet switches. Trading markets were a natural […]