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Q&A: How APM replaced perception with fact at one health care company
If end users' perceptions of new technologies often appear out of sync with actual performance, they probably are. Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Health Care, figured this to be the case when he
When collaboration with rivals makes sense for IT
In a tough economy where Darwinian competition seems to be the name of the game, is collaboration with rivals wise? In the health care business in Wisconsin, some providers are finding it to be so.
Context is key for ECM vendors
Guest post by Darren Knipp A couple of months ago, a colleague of mine brought to my attention Ron Miller's column "Content management is so much more than just a database." I've always enjoyed Ron's
Palm scanner IDs hospital patients
NYU Langone Medical Center is using an infrared light scanning technology to identify patients by the blood flow patterns their palms, one of 10 hospitals around the United States that have deployed
Ponemon: Data breaches cost healthcare $6 billion a year
The U.S. healthcare system is expensive, but it could be less so if data breaches weren't costing it billions of dollars every year. The Ponemon Institute and the security consulting firm ID Expert
Interview with Rich Shirey, CIO, Baptist Health System
Baptist Health System, which owns and manages four hospitals and 38 clinics in Alabama, has begun deploying electronic health record (EHR) technology as part of a larger clinic integration strategy.
Healthcare IT faces healthy opportunities
If there's one sector where the prognosis for IT looks good these days, it's healthcare. The federal government's twin initiatives of economic recovery and healthcare reform are channeling some hefty
A better forecast for IT
Forrester Research put out an updated report predicting even higher annual growth in IT spending--8.4 percent--than predicted in January. The rosier forecast, by Forrester's Andrew Bartels, is based
Lessons in healthcare reform for CIOs
The massive challenges facing healthcare reform may not appear to have much to do with the challenges facing the typical CIO, but in a post in Forbes, Dan Woods describes a very interesting analogy:
Are we deluged with data?
The IT world has been an amazing boon to business, supplying companies with streams of data and information to assess the marketplace, make strategic decisions and informed judgments. But do we have
