Wireless-Doc (the Weblog) Bill Koslosky, M.D. examines the state of wireless technology and medical applications.

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Thursday, May 15, 2003   CASE STUDY "Cisco helps Sharp HealthCare System use wireless to enhance patient care" This is a report from the Cisco web site describing this installation. 2:17:53 PM    comment [] CLINICAL WIRELESS Medical Informatics - Understanding Its Culture At a recent town meeting held at Columbia University Dept. of Medical Informatics, featured President-Elect of the American Medical Informatics Assoc. (AMIA) Charles Safran, MD. Several of the members related their stories of interactions with clinicians unaware of the role played researchers in this discipline in developing standards including HIPAA. Part of the hope of enabling technologies such as wireless networks is to help establish, instruct and enliven communities of healthcare professionals, in order to work more efficiently toward solving clinical, technological and administrative problems. (more to follow...) 1:43:57 PM    comment [] GENERAL WI-FI Public Hotspots Attempting to Revitalize Urban Areas Downtowns, including San Diego's "Bandwidth Bay" are seeking more public interest by establishing hotspots. The professionals in the blog world talk about technology changing or creating social organizations mainly in the context in communities achieving better means of communication. Certainly blogs and wireless can serve the communities of healthcare professionals who enjoy sharing their experiences. The issue of having access to "experts" in a discipline is debated among the pro bloggers including David Weinberger. 1:27:14 PM    comment [] GENERAL WI-FI "Wireless Hotspots Heat Up" This is a good summary of the major players jumping into the market for public hotspots. It's important that more people in all sectors begin to consider and understand this technology, but on the other hand care must be taken not to "over-hype" the promises of wi-fi. 1:12:52 PM    comment [] GENERAL WI-FI Hewlett-Packard Release WLAN Hardware In this news story posted at InternetWeek.com, HP is reported to be positioning its putting its "ProCurve Networking division front and center in the battle for control of wireless access points and the management of enterprise wireless infrastructure with wireless switches." 1:04:45 PM    comment [] CONFERENCES McGraw-Hill Companies Homeland Security Summit and Exposition (May 14-16, Arlington, VA) Topics include plans for secure communications networks between state and federal agencies as announced by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Tom Ridge 11:22:30 AM    comment [] HANDHELDS Phone Manufacturer's Report from the "Wireless Capital of America," San Diego Anticipation is building for the one personal device that will serve all the needs of the mobile professional. Here's a look at models being touted by Nokia and Kyocera. (NB - Most agree that the most wired city in the US is Portland, OR. This blogger is still awaiting NYC's designation. Perhaps, "Most Wired International City." Worth considering now that Verizon has made its foray into Manhattan with it payphone access points. 11:12:48 AM    comment [] GENERAL WI-FI "Paris: City Of Wireless" Plans by two technology companies and the Paris subway system envision blanketing the city with access points. - Information Week 11:02:32 AM    comment [] GENERAL WI-FI Mobile-office Entry Jumpstart Package is Offered by IBM Small and mid-sized business are targeted with the new wireless package released by IBM 10:58:37 AM    comment [] WWAN TECHNOLOGY "Bioterror Attack Drill Tests Communications Technology" "Rush-Copley Medical Center uses EnvoyXpress to quickly notify employees to report for work in a crisis" according to Information Week. 10:46:02 AM    comment [] CLINICAL WIRELESS Bluefire Security Technologies Provides Safe Wireless Support "Johns Hopkins is using Bluefire Security Technologies' Mobile Firewall Plus, which supports the Advanced Encryption Standard to secure data." - Information Week 10:33:53 AM    comment [] CLINICAL WIRELESS St. Francis Health System Continues to Development Wireless Network "Saint Francis implemented its first wireless network in 1999 and has since rolled out a 'full blown' electronic medical records system that’s accessible via the network, which connects six facilities." - HealthDataManagement.com 10:13:46 AM    comment [] GENERAL WI-FI Verizon Creates Hotspots throughout Manhattan. In a unique implementation scheme, Verizon is leveraging its pay phones to act as access points. 9:25:42 AM    comment [] © Copyright 2003 Bill Koslosky, MD. Last update: 8/17/2003; 6:02:29 PM. This theme is based on the SoundWaves (blue) Manila theme. May 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Apr   Jun