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May 07, 2008
The Platform: The Official Cisco Blog:Mayo Clinic, Mobility and Cisco
Anytime, anywhere access to the network is a requirement for efficiency and productivity. Randy Regimbal, Director of Network Services at Mayo Clinic, is maximizing the benefits of using mobile technologies to help contribute to healthcare leadership at the Mayo Clinic as "the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world" which treats over 500,000 people each year. He also offers insight into future applications of mobility within the healthcare industry.
"In the next few years, the most critical way mobility will be used in healthcare is to improve efficiency. It no longer makes sense for a worker to use fixed devices 50 times a day when we see an increasingly mobile workforce."
- Randy Regimbal, Director of Network Services, Mayo Clinic
You can also view a video of Randy talking about mobility in our sister Cisco mobility blog.
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Cisco Service Provider Blog:The Crazy Eights of EDGE QUEST
Hi. A few days ago I was recording a podcast for Cisco EDGE QUEST Game Tournament with uber-gamer/podcaster extraordinaire, Randy JordanThe Instance who runs a World of Warcraft podcast. After the session, we continued our conversation on communities developing around massively multiplayer online games (or MMOGs for short… which I believe is also the name of an alien robotic race on Star Trek) and how actual and virtual world lines are blurring. I was explaining that as a marketeer in the Web 2.0 world, we didn’t want to make our customer communications “too virtual” and that through this game and $10K winner-take-all tournament, that we really wanted know what the players are thinking.
He said, “Ah, so it’s time for an EDGE QUEST Eight.” I replied in some educated way, saying “wha?” Randy responded (fortunately not referring to me as “Grasshopper”) that we should ping a select group with 8 questions and then have them distribute it to others, and so forth, effectively letting the Human Network itself disseminate it and compile feedback.
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The Platform: The Official Cisco Blog:A Big Day for Cisco and a Big Day for Sports
Most of the attention on Cisco yesterday was naturally on our earnings announcement, but it was also a big day for us for another reason: we had the privilege to help open the new Sports Museum of America in New York City. Cisco’s technology is behind many of the interactive features of the new museum and in this video, our VP of Marketing, Alan Cohen explains what visitors can expect to see. Courtesy of my colleague, Chris Barker, we also catch a glimpse of the day’s opening events which featured a dedication by New York Giant’s quarterback, Eli Manning, and a pageant of sports legends including Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis and tennis legend, Billie Jean King. See if you can recognize your favorite among them....
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Cisco Web Experience Blog:Web Design is Like Building a House
People often ask me to explain why there are different Web design roles and how they fit in creating a Web experience: "Martin," they say, "can I just go find an artist somewhere to redesign the experience on the business-to-business section of the Web sites that I just inherited?"
Unfortunately, usually not. For anything complex, you probably need to have more talent on board than just the proverbial 'artist with purple hair.' Creating a Web site or even a section of one is a lot like building a house, where you need an architect, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, etc. who come on board during the life of the project as needed.
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Cisco Mobile Visions:Cisco Ships 5 Millionth Aironet AP to Mayo Clinic
It’s not every day that you announce a major industry milestone like shipping five million wireless access points (since 2000). And adding to that, we shipped more than 50,000 802.11n access points, making it the fastest ramping access point in Cisco history. So where was the five millionth access point shipped to? The world-renowned Mayo Clinic. They are running a Cisco Unified Wireless Network for hospital staff, patients and guests at its three U.S. campuses in Minnesota, Florida and Arizona.
Tune into a video taped from a TelePresence meeting between Randy Regimbal, Mayo Clinic’s director of network services (located in Minnesota) and the leadership team from Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit (located in San Jose, California). Naturally, we thanked Mayo Clinic for being a very deserving recipient of the five millionth access point. Then, Randy talks about how Mayo Clinic is using wireless and mobility applications to improve its operations, enhance patient care, as well as provide a better experience for its patients and guests.
A Q&A with Randy Regimbal on how Mayo Clinic sees efficiency as a major mobility benefit can be read here.
And the press release is available here.
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May 06, 2008
The Platform: The Official Cisco Blog:Transforming Neo-Natal Care with Video and Cisco Catalyst Switches
Adena Health System's CIO, Marcus Bost, and Cisco's Rob Sloan discuss how video has dramatically increase care for newborns and how Cisco's Catalyst switching architecture made this possible. Through Telemedicine, Adena Health System was able decrease the number of children transferred to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 70 miles away, in half. To lean more, read the case study and to learn more about Adena, visit: www.adena.org.
Post by Christine Pratt
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Cisco Service Provider Blog:Cisco EDGE QUEST Tournament of Aces Design Bake Off – Artists on your Marks…
Hi. Cisco ASR Edge Master Webster here.
The Cisco EDGE QUEST Tournament of Aces is underway. And, many of you are tearing-it-up in as you work towards a top 100 score that will give you the opportunity to compete for US $10,000 and an ASR 1002 router (signed by the lead architect).
As I mentioned in my last post, throughout the qualifying round (May 5th through June 11th), we’re going to introduce tips-n-tricks, news and fun, creative ways to engage with us during the tournament. So…
A question for you….
Of all the questions that I’ve had on the EDGE QUEST game, I was expecting to get the most around what we did to make the Cisco ASR hypercraft fly (that would be a fun request to try to get past our engineers in a roadmap concept commit meeting…). Nope. Instead, I’ve had the most questions about the look of the Cisco ASR hypercraft. “Why not add stripes?” “Can you make it all black?” “How about teal with red stripes?”
Enough is enough.
Do you think you have a better design idea for the Cisco ASR craft? If so, bring your artistic vision and skills to the Cisco ASR EDGE QUEST Hypercraft Design Bake Off.
How does this work?
- Easy -- Simply, go to our Facebook page and choose one of the three Cisco ASR 1000 Series router models and start designing. Add new parts and color away!
- Submissions can be scanned or uploaded until 9 p.m. Pacific Time on May26 (5 a.m. UTC on May 27).
- The top two designs will be revealed on May 27, and then it will be up to YOU to pick narrow the field where one will be chosen.
- All can participate (and because it is about a router, see if you can’t apply the time to your “training” development goal for the year…
- For 'terms of submission', click here.
Why do it?
Bragging rights and a chance to see your design “in lights.” Your craft could very well be featured in the final EDGE QUEST Tournament of Aces winner take all "Money Round" that will take place on June 16, 2008.
Have fun, get creative, and submit your design today. Who knows.. may be with your design, the engineers will listen a bit longer to the “flying router” idea…
Live long and network!
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Cisco Collaboration Blog:Babe and Lou, If You Could See the Sports Museum of America
In spring my thoughts turn to the “Boys of Summer” (it was Babe Ruth who said “this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth”), that time when daylight lengthens, when school gives way to the competition of baseball and the eternal imagination of youths self-identifying with sports heroes. The smell of fresh-mowed sod, the sharp crack of a fastball meeting a Louisville slugger, and the exhilarating fear and unrestrained joy of taking off for first -- emotions as fresh today as they were decades ago. These are memories etched in the “YouTube” of our brains, retrieved, sometimes, just by a chance conversation or the smell of a hotdog slathered in deli mustard and sauerkraut.
On May 7 we celebrate the launch of the Sports Museum of America (SMA), www.sportsmuseum.com, the first museum dedicated to just about every sport played in America. The SMA has partnered with more than 50 sport organizations’ Halls of Fame, national governing bodies and other top athletic associations to showcase exhibits, memorabilia, stories and heroes that resonate with all of us.
Partnering with the museum’s founders and all-star roster of directors (from too many different sports to list here), Cisco is providing a range of visual networking and emerging technologies to build a human network within the museum and online – as the web version never closes -- converging technology and history to enhance the attendee experience.
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