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Listening to doctors and patients talk
When Zaccary Newsham-Quinn, 4, visits his pediatrician in Levittown, the doctor, Nathan Zankman, asks if he would be willing to have their conversation recorded for use in medical research. Zaccary's mother, Danielle, agrees, and signs a consent form, and the doctor turns on a small digital recorder that captures every word between the physician and patient behind the examining-room door. Later, Zankman sends the recording via computer, along with others he made that day, to a Fort Washington start-up technology company, Verilogue Inc. Verilogue has software that analyzes the real-time patient-physician interactions, compiles a verbatim transcript, and puts the recording and transcript in a database that Verilogue clients in the health-care industry will use to learn what doctors and patients actually say to each other about diseases and medicines.
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AFORE, Cavium and GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Deliver Carrier Grade ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- AFORE Solutions, Inc., Cavium Networks, and GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, leaders in the embedded computing industry, today announced their joint effort to deliver a Carrier Grade Ethernet (CGE) platform to provide the reliability and dependability of SONET transport networks for CGE. A live demonstration at the AdvancedTCA Summit, October 16 - 18, allows participants to view this hardware and software solution providing CGE on a packet processor AdvancedMC/MicroTCA platform. AFORE InterPort(TM) software has been ported to GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms' Telum(TM) NPA-3804 AdvancedMC modules which utilize Cavium Octeon(TM)-based multi-core packet processors. The Telum NPA-3804 AdvancedMCs plug directly into the MicroTCA backplanes of GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms' MP-2000 Modular Platforms.
Shore faces shortage of labor
For more than a century, the S.E.W. Friel company has been canning corn in Queen Anne's County. And for the past several years, the Eastern Shore's only remaining cannery has hired Mexicans to work in the plant during the peak months of July and August.
But this year, it looks like Friel won't get the 70 or so seasonal workers it needs. The national cap for migrants to temporarily work in this country under a special visa program was filled before Friel was permitted to apply under the program's rules. And an attempt by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski to pass legislation to help such businesses was unsuccessful.
"We've been around for over 100 years, and this is the one time in the history of the company that we can honestly say we've reached out and asked for help from Congress," said Jay Friel III.
City out to learn what's in CSX cars
The derailment of a CSX freight train carrying hazardous materials through Baltimore has again pushed to the forefront concerns about whether city officials know what dangerous cargo is passing through each day.
Though last weekend's accident, in which 12 train cars fell off the tracks near M&T Bank Stadium, left no injuries or leaks, city officials say they intend to press CSX Transportation Inc. for real-time information on what chemicals are coming in and out of Baltimore - information to which the city does not now have regular access.
Mayor Sheila Dixon held a security Cabinet meeting yesterday with police, fire, health and transportation representatives to discuss requesting such information immediately.
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