The Eight Biggest IT Management Mistakes
Read up to learn “some of the most common IT gaffes include becoming trapped in a relationship with a vendor you can’t shake loose, hiring or promoting the wrong people, and hiding problems from top management until it’s too late to recover,” at CIO.com.
read moreWhat Are the In-Demand Tech Jobs for 2018
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of computer and information technology jobs is growing faster than the average for any other occupation. CIO Today tells us what talent they expect to see in 2018. Most in demand: data science, programming, security, content, and social media marketing.
read moreCan Drones Save Farmers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Just a Few Minutes?
Whether it’s potatoes, corn, grapes or grain, farmers have to manually map hundreds of acres of land to harvest accurate information about their crops. But wait, that was before. This is now: Drone Mapping Is Revolutionizing Farming.
read moreThe Nine Most Popular Types of IIoT Use Cases
The Industrial Internet of Things is poised to transform practically all aspects of business. The Internet of Things Institute recently researched and compiled a cross-industry hierarchy of the current top nine applications for IIoT.
read moreHow Apple, Amazon and the Biggest Tech Companies Won Big with the Tax Vote
Still under reconciliation, the Saturday night/Sunday morning tax vote could give tech companies who stash money overseas a significant break on their tax liability for that money.
read moreIs Apple Poised to Enter EHR Market? New Patents Have the Industry Buzzing
Healthcare IT News reports that Apple’s new patents, as well as Amazon’s lab research, could make them major players in the digital healthcare industry.
read moreTelehealth Policy Changes Mean Big Revenue Opportunities for Hospitals
The technology of telehealth is becoming a shining star among hospital administrators and staff. Digital healthcare tools that enable doctors to assess patient needs, and often provide assistance online, have gained an accelerated momentum in acceptance. [Editor’s note: Just this morning, Kaiser Permanante called me with a fascinating update on their new online telehealth services.]
read moreAmEx Intros Blockchain-Enabled Cross-Border B2B Payments
Just days ago, the American Express FX International Payments (FXIP) division and Ripple, an enterprise global blockchain solution company, announced a joint payment-transfer solution designed to reduce the time and cost of transfer payments to settle, providing a host of benefits for both business-to-business buyers and sellers.
read moreMintHealth Launches Blockchain Powered Personalized Health Record
Taking a bold move to improve healthcare patient outcomes, MintHealth announced the launch of a blockchain-powered personalized health record (PHR). The company will incent patients to actively use its new platform by rewarding healthy behaviors with cryptocurrency tokens that patients can use toward their healthcare costs.
read moreExperts Examine Blockchain’s Present, Future at Marquette Conference
During a recent Milwaukee Blockchain Conference at Marquette University, speakers discussed their ideas on the rapid adoption of the technology among a mixed financial and technical audience.
read moreGovernment Rollbacks Aside, Renewable Energy Is Here to Stay
The energy marketplace has embraced renewable energy production as part of a balanced portfolio.
As Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council writes:
“Despite President Trump’s oft-repeated affinity for coal and a recent spike in U.S. production, energy experts don’t expect a long-term surge in coal production for power plants. There are two main reasons: More natural gas plants are coming on line and renewable sources, mainly wind, are filling the energy gap in many parts of the country.”
With Spark Assistant, Cisco Adds Voice-Activated A.I. to Videoconferencing
Cisco plans to bring ease of use to videoconferencing through voice-activated A.I. convenience with Cisco Spark Assistant. It will let users reserve meeting rooms, call meeting participants, start, join and leave sessions all through voice commands without touching keypads, touchscreens or conference phones. It sounds like the natural evolution of meetings and collaboration.
read moreMeasuring Quality: Why Health Care Can Attract Business, Workers
One of Wisconsin’s key assets is quality healthcare, a commodity largely taken for granted inside Wisconsin and largely unknown to people and companies who may be thinking of moving or expanding here.
read moreThe Periodic Table of Cybersecurity Startups
Cybersecurity is a quickly evolving field, with scads of startups across many categories, from secure communications, predictive intelligence and deception security to IIoT, cyber insurance and investors.
The folks at CBInsights have compiled a clever Periodic Table of companies and categories of service that can give you a quick orientation. The article includes direct links to the leading companies in most of the categories. It’s the 10,000-foot view that is often missing in more narrowly focused articles.
read moreChange Management Is IT’s Greatest Challenge in Delivering Needed Innovation
At a recent Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum, Hal Wolf III, president and CEO of HIMSS, discussed the need to apply new advanced technologies to the practice of healthcare and emphasized that the real challenge is delivering continual IT-driven changes to the current healthcare culture. “Value the people in the process,” he said. “And remember that culture eats strategy for lunch.”
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