In the News 05/23/2008

I will be trying this new column, I am calling "In the News."  My plan is to of course include Healthcare IT (HIT) related stories, but to also have a column to collate news I find interesting.  Hopefully I can enage you, my readers to comment on them and utilize these columns to dialogue about news and events.  For now, until I find a clever way to enable comments without attracting all the spam, I will require you to register.  Any suggestions on how I can manage this better is welcome and appreciated.  Shall we give this a try…. Microsoft came out with a medical imaging product at this years HIMSS conference in Orlando called Amalga (formerly known as Azyxxi).  It looks like they are now trying to staff for this product. Thanks to Facebook, a top ten list has been compile as to why someone should date a nurse.  My top two favorite from the list is #5 "you will never need to buy condoms, paracetamol, toothbrushes or any hospital supplies" and #6 "they know how to handle bodily fluids!" I do no mean to sound like a pessimist, but according to this article, RN’s are warming up to Inforamtion Technology…please wake me up, I am apparently dreaming.  Apparently research work done at UCLA has shown a correlation between children behavioral problems and mobile phone use. HP joins the Tiny Notebook race, as it competes with ASUS Eee, Classmate, Netbook and Sony Vaio. Apple will be holding its Worldwide develpoers conference on June 9-13 in San Francisco.  Rumor has it that Steve jobs will be announcing the release of iPhone 2.0 which will now have Microsoft’s activesync support.  I wonder what the impact this will have for IT departments who utilizes Mocrosoft exchange and the surge of people whol will now want the iPhone? Todd Davis, CEO of LifeLock who made a bold move to promote his company by publishing his real social security number to challenge identity theft.  Apparently after two years of daring people to steal his identity…it finally happened.