http://justendeal.com justen deal · blog Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:18:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The news Sun announced this morning will mean some cloudy days ahead for the company. Still, Sun remains a strong company, with a tremendous technology portfolio and continuous innovation that makes many of its competitors look like they're standing still. (Some are, in fact.) At Kaiser Permanente, I came ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/11/14/sun-brighter-future/ It looks like the federal government is moving closer towards providing direct financial assistances for Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors. I wrote last week that any help should not be used to fund a merger between GM and Chrysler, and it looks like they have moved away from that ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/11/12/why-chrysler-matters/ Quick. Name one company that does electronic health record software as a service. You might be forgiven for thinking first of those folks in Watertown, but this time I'm talking about Purkinje, that healthcare information technology company with dual citizenship (its based in St. Louis and Montréal). ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/11/11/purkinje-stealth-fighter/ I was not one of the earliest supporters of Barack Obama. But I, like many Americans, am excited by the new energy he is bringing to the leadership of this country. I think Hillary has already said exactly what I feel right now: Tonight, we are celebrating an historic victory...for the ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/11/05/yes-we-can/ I have probably blogged about Sprint more than just about any other company or organization, save maybe one or two. In 2004, I predicted the Sprint and Nextel merger would be a "nightmare." In 2005, I added Nextel to my list of "endangered companies" due to that very ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/11/01/sprint-still-struggling/ When I look around healthcare information technology, I see silos. I find software that gets in the way of productivity. I see technology that is not as reliable or as efficient as it should and could be. When I try to think of companies that are actively ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/10/28/glen-tullman-gets-it/ There is apparently growing noise behind a shortsighted, shotgun marriage of General Motors and Chrysler. If we were living in a time of any sort of economic sanity, everybody would laugh such a proposal all the way back to the ridiculous place it came from. Unfortunately, we are ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/10/27/dont-kill-chrysler/ Update: I'm going to forgive the Wall Street Journal, just this once, for stealing my story. Be sure to check out the last section of the article, A Better Substitute, which not only eulogizes the Foleo, but also talks about the growing success of the Redfly. Meet the Redfly... ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/10/26/the-future-of-mobile-computing/ L.Gordon Moore may not please everybody when he talks about his concerns with the current state of electronic medical record software, but I'm pretty sure he's not at all alone in his observations among independent practitioners... When you put an EMR into a primary care practice, your life is hell for ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/10/06/if-you-try-sometimes-you-might-find/ Let's talk about Vieue. About a year ago, I finally put together one list of some of the ideas at the intersection of healthcare and information technology that I had been collecting for a while. I shared those ideas with a few friends, and the concepts that survived the sounding ... http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/10/03/a-whole-new-vieue/