February 2008

Wall Street has seen dramatic productivity improvements through the implementation of a few rigorously enforced standards, such as SWIFT ISO 15022, which "sets the principles necessary to provide the different communities of users with the tools to design message types to support their specific information flows."

We caught up with MDNG Healthcare IT Advisory Board Member Bill Crounse, MD, at the 3rd Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, held this past December 9-11 in Washington, DC.

Since this is the fun issue, I decided to take an off beat look at what your office computers could be doing while you are not using them. The concept of donating idle computer time to science projects has been around since the dawn of the Internet.

We know you are busy. But even doctors find themselves with a little time to kill every now and then. When this happens, we suppose you could do something like read a book or talk with a friend or family member, but who wants to do that?

Keeping with our "timewaster's" theme, we've compiled a few links to some of our favorite online games and game collections. There's something for everyone here: sports games; puzzles and logic games;