Technology

Taiwan, India to promote 10 science tech cooperation projects

Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-22
By: CNA

Science and technology officials of Taiwan and India agreed at a meeting in New Delhi

The delegation at the eighth Taiwan-India Science and Technology Cooperation Conference, July 21. (Photo/CNA)

The delegation at the eighth Taiwan-India Science and Technology Cooperation Conference, July 21. (Photo/CNA)

Monday to promote 10 cooperation projects in research and exchanges of graduate students.

At the eighth Taiwan-India Science and Technology Cooperation Conference, delegates headed by Chien Chung-liang, vice minister of science and technology of the Republic of China, and Ashutoch Sharma, India’s vice science and technology minister, reached an agreement on cooperation projects for the coming year.

Since the two ministries signed a memorandum on cooperation in 2007, more than 70 science and technology cooperation projects have been implemented and Taipei and New Delhi have taken turns in hosting the annual Taiwan-India Science and Technology Cooperation Conference, according to a spokesman of the Science and Technology Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in India.     [FULL  STORY]

Mozilla Firefox OS R&D team in Taiwan loses staff

DigiTimes
Date: 17 July 2015
By: Daniel Shen, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES

Mozilla COO and Taiwan general manager Gon Li have resigned and set up a new company and recruited about 30 engineers from the Mozilla Firefox OS R&D team in Taiwan, almost suspending the R&D operation, according to industry sources.

Established in 2011, Mozilla’s Taiwan subsidiary has more than 150 employees of which nearly 90% are responsible for developing Firefox OS, accounting for over half of Mozilla’s global Firefox OS R&D workforce, the sources said.

Firefox OS has won adoption by vendors including LG Electronics, ZTE, TCL Communication Technology, Huawei Device, Intex, Spice, Symphony, Zen Mobile and Cherry Mobile, which have launched Firefox OS smartphones in Japan, India, China and countries in Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia through cooperation with 14 mobile telecom carriers, the sources indicated.

Firefox OS smartphones have so far sold well in India and Latin America, the sources said.

Leading Cancer Clinic in Taiwan Replaces Paper Charts with An All-Electronic Clinical Process And Enhanced Patient Safety Features

PR Newswire
Date: 2015-07-12

TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan, July 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center (KF-SYSCC) has established an entirely paperless and filmless clinical process in radiation oncology, designed to enhance patient safety as well as operational efficiency.  Using the ARIA® oncology information system from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), the clinical team has automated essential tasks, built in safety-checks, and centralized patient information for easier access by staff members.

ARIA combines a comprehensive, oncology-specific patient electronic medical record (EMR) with numerous tools for managing clinical, administrative and financial operations in multidisciplinary cancer care settings.

“We were using both Varian and Siemens information management software, but we standardized on Varian’s ARIA platform.  Within three months we had removed all paper charts from the department,” said Yeh-Chi Lo, Ph.D., chief of the Department of Medical Physics.  “Varian and its local agent, Cooperative C.L. Enterprise Co., provided us with valuable assistance, helping us to configure the ARIA software to manage different types of treatment, and to reflect our preferences in terms of clinical work flow.  The software is set up to interrupt the clinical workflow at critical junctures unless specific safety checks have been completed and documented.”

“Conversion to an electronic process actually made our workflow more efficient, and potentially safer due to careful automation of essential steps,” added Skye Hung-Chun Cheng M.D., chief of the Department of Radiation Oncology.  “Our goal was to become a fully paperless and filmless department. ARIA has also enhanced the communication between our clinical team members.”

The KF-SYSCC Radiation Therapy Department is a mixed-vendor environment, treating patients on three Varian linear accelerators including a TrueBeam® system plus a Primus-M machine from Siemens.     [FULL  STORY]