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Health Care: Privacy worries Grow about On-line Health Care Records

By Dick Weisinger

In late February, Google jumped into the new world of storing personal health records on-line. Their new service called Google Health is free. A pilot project is on-going at the Cleveland Clinic and may involve up to 10,000 users who

Storage: HIPAA Drives Health Care Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Technologies like Multiscan CT and 3D MRI machines are revolutionizing the practice of medicine, but these technologies can churn out gigabytes of data in seconds. A single multiscan CT image can be one gigabyte. HIPAA requirements are that adult medical

Open Source: What's Stopping Open Source HealthCare?

By Dick Weisinger

At the 2005 JavaOne, both Scott McNeally and Jonathan Schwartz of Sun discussed their ambitious goal of rallying the Java community around solving tough software problems in the areas of education and eHealth. Their keynote addresses highlighted an Open Source