| December 2009 - The Intern's Metaphor on: Siren Data Analytics. When I was so new to the company that the new car smell hadn't worn off me yet, I asked one of the people working on it, "how would you explain a data cube for Data Analytics?"
She smiled and said, "That's what we've been trying to figure out for the past few months."
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September 2009 - Is There Life Beyond Enterprise Grade?. The answer is yes. But I warn you the answer may result in Shock and Awe for your brain. Are you ready?! Nation Grade. There I said it. It's out there. There is no taking it back. The Genie is out of the bottle.
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November 2009 - Dream the Future. Live the Dream. EMS has come a long way from its early days where the motto was "Hire the fastest drivers and have them put the pedal to the metal!" Experience over the last 50 years has shown us that a mixture of urgency and on-scene treatment produce the best results in most cases. So what will people say 50 years from now about our "archaic" solutions in the 21st century?
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May 2009 - This Just In From Wishard: The following is an e-mail from Wishard EMS, Indianapolis, italics added for clarification purposes:
As of 08:55 this morning (May 6th) Indy has taken another huge step forward in electronic patient healthcare. A successful test was done using the Siren ePCR system and the INPC (Indiana Network for Patient Care) system. A report from INPC was generated and attached to the patient's pre-hospital report.
Thank you to everyone for working so hard on this.
Tom Arkins
Wishard EMS
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May 2009 - Congratulations, York! Medusa Medical would like to congratulate the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, on going live with their new Siren ePCR system! Today!
After a year of preparation and working with Medusa's deployment team, York will see its first day of live-data production on the first phase of rollout. ePCRs will be recorded in a Medusa-customized template that will match Ontario's specific Ambulance Care Report template.
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September 2008 - "Big T" Technologies. I figured I would start this article off with something grandiose - I thought I would coin my own terminology!
The little hamster in my brain started to run on the treadmill and out popped the idea of Big T Technology. Unfortunately, a Google search showed me that the hamsters in other people's brains already came up with this terminology. The article "Big T" Technology vs. technology" is a prime example of other hamster activity.
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August 2008 - E-Health Strategies. I've been reading through a number of different eHealth Strategies from around the world and have come to this conclusion: albeit unusual, politicians and governments of different countries seem to agree on how eHealth can benefit the patient and on how to move the health of the nations forward over the next ten years.
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July 2008 - Stakeholder Communication . Anyone who has ever read a management book knows that you need to have "effective stakeholder communication". The trick is figuring out what that really means and how to accomplish it!
The NHS in England is running what many reckon is the largest civilian IT project in the world: The National Programme for IT (NPfIT). It is very ambitious. It will link all health care providers into one seamless IT system. Communicating how this system will work and what the benefits will be is a daunting task and the NHS has published a YouTube video that does a great job of doing just that. Click here to view the video.
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June 2008 - Predictions for a Very IT Future. I just read Gartner's Gartner Predicts 2007 report and even though it is based upon 2006 data, it has some interesting insights.
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