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Meaningful use remains the strongest driver to implement electronic health records for physicians, according to a new survey that finds both potential EHR buyers and current users valuing the technology, but with substantially different perceptions and expectations.
We are entering an age where data is becoming an extension of our daily lives. With online and offline behavior blending into a single entity, we are witnessing unprecedented creation and demand for information. This explosion of data fueled from new sources such as mobile devices, collaboration tools and social networks is creating a tremendous opportunity for businesses. This is an exciting time for organizations to achieve a new level of insight from this data. In order to capitalize on this opportunity, companies need a sound strategy for harnessing all of this information in an efficient and useful way.
Most people think of Facebook as solely a social media tool – used to connect with friends and family. However, with it’s 750 million plus users, Facebook are a launching pad for a sea of new apps and business ideas. Facebook is slowing becoming the next job-recruitment instrument.
As health care companies grapple with whether to adopt cloud computing platforms to store patient data, providers face many choices on which services to choose and how to keep data secure.
Tweet A new FCC report indicates that the average speeds ISPs give their customers are about 80 to 90 percent of what they advertise. That’s an improvement over a couple of years ago, but is it good enough? “Given what I know about the broadband infrastructure in general, that’s acceptable,” said IDC’s Matt Davis. “There […]
Featured ArticlesTweet With five new smartphones debuting at once, it may seem as though RIM is throwing everything at the wall to see what will stick — but one thing it’s already stuck on is a couple of old names: “Torch” and “Bold.” That seems a risky strategy for a company that’s been lagging seriously behind […]
Featured ArticlesEnterprise 2.0 (E2.0) has the potential to dramatically change the way businesses are run across the globe. However, we still witness enterprises struggling to effectively empower employees with web 2.0-style tools and technologies that combine the concepts of websites, composite applications, content management and social communities, all delivered via a seamlessly integrated open modern user experience platform.
Utility computing has switched quickly from hype to reality, with increasing numbers of organisations moving infrastructures, platforms and even applications to the cloud.
With Medicare about to stop paying for some preventable hospital readmissions, the care management industry is starting to come up with ways to help healthcare providers avoid complications that can lead to such needless readmissions.
Tweet Motorola has touched down with the Photon 4G, its latest high-end Android smartphone for the Sprint network. The phone’s design, display and world-roaming capabilities have received praise from smartphone critics, though some mentioned a few shortcomings. With Samsung and HTC gaining traction in the Android world, Motorola could use a hit. Read More…
Featured ArticlesAfter a couple of false starts over the last couple of years, the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) has been resurrected to advocate for royalty-free open standards in cloud computing with a set of Open Cloud Principles (OCP) that are unlikely to be universally accepted.
The use of smartphones and tablet PCs by U.S. small to medium-size businesses—businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees—is experiencing tremendous growth, according to a report from IT analytics firm AMI-Partners. The company cited nearly 3.5 million U.S. SMBs that are currently using smartphones and 700,000 using tablet PCs.
OpenFlow may be one of the hotter buzzwords in bleeding-edge networking technologies these days, but getting past the emotional exuberance and down to brass tacks in this area can be difficult.
In information management at the moment, two of the real buzzwords are cloud computing and Big Data. In both areas, IBM (news, site) is a contender for top spot, with two simultaneous, separate, but related developments.
Tweet A new project has taken root at the Mozilla Foundation to create a new mobile OS called “Gecko.” The Boot to Gecko project aims to create a mobile OS based on the Android kernel that would use the Web to displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for app development. It’s been compared to Google Chrome OS, […]
Featured ArticlesTweet The week was a busy one for Apple. Besides releasing its new operating system — OS X Lion — and a set of new Mac products, Cupertino also posted record quarterly figures, watched its stock reach new heights, and scored a win against rival HTC. Meanwhile, AT&T adjusted to life after iPhone exclusivity, NATO […]
Featured ArticlesCloud computing has definitely moved into the mainstream. You now see commercials from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others every evening on prime time Cable TV. CNBC has created a Cloud Computing Special Report for investors to learn more about it. Even government agencies are now moving to cloud-based solutions.
IBM’s Unsexy Secret To Profits: Middleware
Information Communications Technology (ICT) is seen as a key area of focus for achieving sustainability goals. This report shows that business use of cloud computing can play an important role in an organization’s sustainability and IT strategies: improving business process efficiency and flexibility whilst decreasing the emissions of IT operations.
Application integration has always been a thorny problem. Add in the inherent design restrictions of software as a service–think islands, not exactly designed to exchange data–and things get even trickier. Fortunately, there are some products and best practices that can make your apps work together.
Tweet New research may provide the answers to overcoming one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of the development of quantum computing: quantum decoherence. The experiment used molecular magnets, which suppress extrinsic decoherence. Extrinsic decoherence was reduced to the point where it was no longer observable, said USC’s Susumu Takahashi. Read more…
Featured ArticlesTweet Google is alerting users when it turns up evidence of a certain type of malware in their systems in the form of warnings delivered with search results. The service is meant to provide an extra layer of protection. It is not comprehensive, and it is in no way meant to replace antivirus software, the […]
Featured ArticlesOnce you move your core IT systems into private or public cloud networks, your work isn’t over. Now you have a different set of technology issues to deal with: managing the cloud to ensure that your investments pay off for your enterprise and deliver the efficiencies and ROI that you’re expecting.
Tweet Google News Badges will allow users of the search engine’s news aggregator to display their awareness of current events in a variety of fields by way of virtual badges. It’s not quite clear how the badges will play into other properties like Google+ and Google Reader, though, and critics question what actual value a […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Working with bulk text means you need a reusable copy-and-paste buffer to store multiple snippets of verbiage and characters. ClipIt is a fork of the now deceased Parcelite clipboard manager. So its look and feel are very similar to its predecessor. But ClipIt offers more features and preferences to select. Read More…
Featured ArticlesTweet Enterprises are under constant attack from security threats of all stripes, but three in particular will likely come to the forefront in the second half of 2011. The growth of mobile devices will present an ever-wider opportunity for hackers, the desktop browser will become a new security perimeter, and attackers will learn new social […]
DATA SECURITY, Featured Articles, Inside the BriefcaseTweet Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is apparently giving Google+ a thorough going-over, but does Facebook actually have anything to worry about? Not likely — at least, not in the near term. “This isn’t going to kill Facebook at all,” said Geek 2.0 blogger Steven Savage. “Facebook knows what it’s doing and has been doing it […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Google typically isn’t ashamed to put products out into the world before they’ve had a chance to get fully dressed. “Beta” is no dirty word at the Googleplex. So why did the company become so stingy with its Google+ invitations so soon after the service launched last week? Perhaps that’s because in the realm […]
Featured ArticlesWhile use of cloud computing continues to grow at a healthy pace, determining exactly what “the cloud” is remains a topic of discussion. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a useful definition: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”
Tweet Google Chair Eric Schmidt has sounded an alarm that Arab states in the throes of revolution will clamp down on the Internet. However, censorship of Internet content is not restricted to those countries or to authoritarian states like China, North Korea and Iran. “Great Britain, France, Germany and South Korea all filter the Internet, […]
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