Tag Archives: software

Modernizing Medicine Leverages Nuance Technology to Make It Easier for Doctors to Document Patient Visits Through Speech

Posted on by

BOCA RATON, FL–(Marketwired – Apr 30, 2013) – Modernizing Medicine, the creator of the Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical records (EMR) system, announced today that it is integrating Nuance’s speech recognition technology within EMA, which can help improve physician documentation productivity, enhance physician satisfaction and assist physicians in keeping clinical information accurate and up to date in patient records. Leveraging speech recognition software by Nuance, Modernizing Medicine’s customers can reap the productivity and financial benefits of talking naturally and at their own pace to document patient visits within EMA, while using built-in voice navigation, and correction capabilities and mobile device gesture support within the software. Continue reading →

NASA Sends Cell Phones (Regular Old Cell Phones) Into Space

Posted on by

Brian Fung/Flickr/NASA/JPL Today, in NASA Is the Best: The space agency this week took a handful of cheap but powerful smartphones, slapped them to a gigantic rocket and blasted them into low-earth orbit to see how they’d fare. The project, called PhoneSat, is one of those wacky experiments that seems at first to have nothing to do with science. But it’s not a stunt. Continue reading →

Laurel Health Care to Deploy COMS Interactive Disease Management Program

Posted on by

WESTERVILLE, Ohio, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Laurel Health Care Company (Laurel), a leading long-term care organization, has selected Daylight IQ, the COMS Interactive (Clinical Outcomes Management System or COMS) product suite, as a key component of its disease management program. The team will be deploying Daylight IQ at thirty-three facilities in the several states/communities in which Laurel serves. Continue reading →

NASA ‘s Curiosity rover back online after memory glitch

Posted on by

NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set the robot back. “We expect to get back to sample-analysis science by the end of the week,” said Curiosity Mission Manager Jennifer Trosper in a statement. On February 28, controllers put the rover into “minimal activity safe mode” when they switched the machine’s operations to a backup computer after detecting malfunctions in the primary computer’s flash memory Continue reading →

Viscount’s Freedom Access Control Technology Secures Dallas High Rises

Posted on by

BURNABY, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Viscount Systems (VSYS), a leading-edge, high technology supplier of security systems and software, is pleased to announce that it has shipped the first of several systems to secure a multi-building high-rise complex in Dallas. Continue reading →

NASA conducts Martian tech support to repair Curiosity

Posted on by

A computer problem onboard the Mars rover Curiosity has forced NASA scientists to put the rover into safe mode while they try to bring a backup system online and try to figure out what is wrong with the main computer. “We are doing multiple things at the same time,” Jim Erickson, Curiosity’s deputy project manager, told Computerworld. “All we know is the vehicle is telling us that there are multiple errors in the memory .. Continue reading →

Space Station astronauts temporarily lose all contact with NASA

Posted on by

The International Space Station in 2010 (NASA) NASA’s Mission Control lost contact with the International Space Station on Tuesday, temporarily leaving the $100 billion orbiting laboratory and its six astronauts without a means to communicate with Earth. At 9:45 a.m., flight controllers in Houston were updating the software onboard the stations flight computers when one of the stations data relay systems malfunctioned, NASA said in a statement. “The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but was not allowing the station to communicate with NASAs Tracking and Data Relay Satellites,” NASA explained Continue reading →

PDS Vista HRMS Selected by Liberty Tax Service

Posted on by

BLUE BELL, PA–(Marketwire – Feb 19, 2013) – PDS, a leading provider of human resource, benefits, recruiting, and payroll software, today announced that Liberty Tax Service has selected and implemented its Vista HRMS solution to manage its ranging employee base of 1,000 to 3,000 people depending on the time of year. Vista HRMS has saved the tax service provider significant time on its HR, payroll, benefits, and recruiting processes and provided access to valuable information for the HR team, executives and managers, as well as its employees. Continue reading →

Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Executives to Detail Greatest Challenges at AeroDef Manufacturing 2013

Posted on by

A panel of leading aerospace and defense manufacturing OEMs will challenge their suppliers to find solutions to issues. Dearborn, Michigan (PRWEB) February 19, 2013 The discussion will focus on ways to improve affordability, producibility and technical innovation in aerospace and defense manufacturing, including: Panelists include members of the AeroDef Manufacturing Executive Committee, who partnered with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) to produce AeroDef Continue reading →