Month: January 2009

Securing Patient Data

As more health care providers make patient information available over the Web and on wireless devices, security and patient privacy are foremost on IT administrators?

Building a Health Care IT Infrastructure

The federal government has developed software that will allow government agencies and private health care providers to connect their IT systems to an emerging nationwide

Beating the Nursing Shortage

Tired of spending $8 million to $10 million a year to hire nurses from outside employment agencies, St. John Health in Detroit decided to create

Giving Health Care a Dose of IT

Hospitals, medical clinics and doctors in private practice have long discussed the need to improve health care with information technology—such as computerizing patient records—but few

The Challenge of Government Management

In government, as well as in the private sector, making good things happen with technology is primarily a management challenge, not a technological one. Technology

Make the Bad Times Work for You

In October 2001 the UnitedStates was officially in recession.Companies were laying off employees by the thousands, and many high-paidmanufacturing and professional employees were having to

Presidents and Technology

Now that President Barack Obama is settling into the White House, how connected ? from an IT perspective – will he remain? During his run

Obama: Hope and Change for IT?

President Barack Obama?s official campaign Web site is a model of how 21st century technology tools can boost a candidate?s popularity, building significant buzz via