Practical Technology

Since I run my own small business, I’m very interested in health care reform. You see, my tiny — two-person — company pays more than four figures a month for health insurance. Ow! That and taxes are the two biggest expenses on my ledger. Unfortunately, I don’t see much reason for hope in the crippled [...]

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When I went to the doctor’s office recently, I assumed I’d be getting my seasonal flu shot, and I’d hoped that I might get an H1N1, swine-flu, shot. I was wrong. It turns out that because of shortages, doctor offices aren’t being supplied with flu vaccines. Worse still, they didn’t know where I could get [...]

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Open-source medical software has been around for over 30 years. Unless you are in healthcare IT, however, chances are you’ve never even heard of it. But that’s poised to change. With the passage of ARRA (the American Recovery And Reinvestment Act of 2009, also called the federal stimulus package), some $19 billion dollars have been [...]

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Linux-based and open-source healthcare software has been around for years. Unless you were in health IT, however, chances are you never even heard of it. It’s time to pay attention, because it may soon be tracking your medical records. With the passage of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), $19-billion dollars has been [...]

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