Archive for July, 2009
Dr. Ware Will Launch a New Low-cost Electronic Health Records/Practice Management System
Dr. Ware, in partnership with Microsoft and PracticeFusion, is happy to announce the launch of a world-class Electronic Health Records EMR/PMS system on September 15, 2009. In step with our SaaS (Software as a Service) and “managed services” business model we will be offering doctors and hospitals a suite of offerings targeted at reducing IT costs while increasing efficiency and bringing patients improved care. The three primary modules in this system will be:
Practice Fusion addresses the critical needs of today’s healthcare environments by providing a revolutionary application and delivery model for physicians and patients at no cost. Practice Fusion’s award-winning, free, web-based applications require no on-site software, hardware and integration, eliminating the burden of supporting traditional enterprise software products. As a result, Practice Fusion dramatically reduces costs and complexities, enabling medical practitioners to deliver the highest level of care possible to their patients.
Microsoft® HealthVaultTM, is a platform that puts people in control of their health data. It helps them collect, store, and share health information with family members and healthcare providers, and it provides people with a choice of third-party applications to help them manage things like fitness, diet, and health. Microsoft has also developed HealthVaultTM Search, a new intuitive Web search service that helps people discover answers to their health questions, learn more about topics important to them, confidentially store the information they discover, and act on that knowledge to improve their health and wellness. Healthcare organizations can use the HealthVault platform to deliver compatible tools and services to facilitate communication between patients and healthcare professionals and enable patients to participate more actively in their care.
Microsoft Online Services makes it easy for you to leverage and rapidly deploy familiar Microsoft server products as flexible services. These hosted services-our Business Productivity Online Standard Suite-include the following:
Exchange Online
Provide employees access to e-mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at anytime, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices-while helping to protect against malware and spam. Exchange Online can be rapidly deployed, flexibly expanded, and is designed to be securely administered using a powerful yet easy-to-use Web-based console.
SharePoint Online
Share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks in a single location. Based on Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, SharePoint Online delivers rich collaboration capabilities that enable team members to flexibly and efficiently collaborate, find organizational resources, search your intranet site, and manage content and workflow.
Office Live Meeting
Connect with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events using only a PC with an Internet connection. Hosted Web conferencing services from Microsoft Office Live Meeting give your employees the power to collaborate wherever they are, to set up project meetings, brainstorm ideas, and collaborate on whiteboards without the cost and hassle of travel!
Office Communications Online
Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most. Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and instant messaging capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work seamlessly with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.
With this combination of services doctors and hospitals can concentrate on caring for their patients while they employ low-cost integrated solutions that promote communication between all participants involved in a patient’s care – labs, pharmacies, insurance companies, employers, family members, etc. I.T. support resides on the desktop and is monitored full-time for immediate response. PracticeFusion is free, Microsoft® HealthVaultTM is free, and Microsoft’s Online Services are as little as $15 a month per user for the complete suite. No in-house server(s), networks, IT staff required. Additionally an integrated solution allows patients to use devices at home: like blood-glucose meters, pulse oximeters, blood-pressure gauges, and even scales. The data is automatically uploaded to the patient’s HealthVaultTM account and then made available, by the patient, to medical professionals and/or family, etc. If you would like more information we would love to speak with you. Feel free to contact us.
10 Men Who Helped Shape Today’s Technology Landscape
Often a good idea, hard work, and timing contribute heavily toward a successful venture. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Pierre Omidyar, Shawn Fanning, Sergey Brin, and Mark Cuban are tech industry leaders who underscore these principles. Their experiences, thinking outside the “norm,” have given them much earned insights to pass on to those willing to listen. This 60 Minutes montage covers interviews with these men at different times and situations over several years. While their companies have changed over time they had some interesting things to say about their contributions to technology and the world.
Plans For Microsoft’s Retail Stores – The (interactive) Details
According to Gizmodo the presentation below was leaked to them, “by Lippicott, a ‘design and brand strategy’ consultant firm with extensive retail experience that it appears Microsoft has hired to help develop the store’s concept, principles, and design. It looks pretty legit to us–if it’s a fake, it’s fairly elaborate, with detailed graphics, research, plans and even rough store layouts.”
To operate the presentation start by clicking on the Home icon at the top. You can drag the slides around with your mouse and zoom in/out by using your scroll wheel (or the buttons in the top left corner). To view in full screen mode click on icon in the top right. Enjoy!
Critical Alert: Microsoft Office Web Components ActiveX Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability
The Microsoft Office Web Components are a collection of Component Object Model (COM) controls used for manipulating office documents. There is a memory corruption vulnerability in some of the ActiveX controls that are installed by default by Microsoft Office. The specific flaw is in the Spreadsheet ActiveX control “OWC10.DLL” and “OWC11.DLL”. A malicious web page that instantiates the vulnerable component could trigger this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user. The users will have to be tricked into visiting the website that hosts such a web page, typically by persuading them to click on the links in e-mail messages. Some technical details are publicly available for this vulnerability, along with public proof-of-concepts.
What To Do
Microsoft has confirmed this vulberability and no updates are available. Users can mitigate the impact by disabling the affected controls via Microsoft’s “killbit” mechanism for CLSIDs “0002E541-0000-0000-C000-000000000046″, “0002E559-0000-0000-C000-000000000046″. If you need help with this please contact us immediately.
Affected:
- Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office XP Web Components Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components for the 2007 Microsoft Office system Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 Standard Edition Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006
- Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Supportability Update
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006
Microsoft’s Security Bulletin:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/973472.mspx
Microsoft Windows 7 System Requirements
If you are planning an upgrade to Windows 7 I’m sure you’re wondering if your PC is up to the task. Actually, if you are currently running Windows Vista and you have a Gig or more of RAM, you are likely good to go. Just to make sure, here’s what it takes:
- 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Additional requirements to use certain features:
- Internet access (fees may apply)
- Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware
- For some Windows Media Center functionality a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required
- Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware
- HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7
- DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive
- BitLocker requires Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
- BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive
- Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM, an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization with Intel VT or AMD-V turned on
- Music and sound require audio output
Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.