A short three years ago, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was funded at a level of less than $150 million. Today, thanks to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH)—part of the American Recovery...
Data center proliferation entails unacceptable cost and risk, says the former CIO of the U.S. Postal Service. With cloud computing as an option, it's time to pursue a more sustainable strategy. The federal government has a data center addiction. Despite ongoing chatter about virtualization, cloud...
The Department of Veterans Affairs and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services. The pilot program slated to begin mid-December 2009, will connect Kaiser...
Wall Street investment banking firm Goldman Sachs has taken a survey of the IT industry,and predicts that a spending recovery should be in the works for 2010. Goldman said its survey of IT professionals shows spending will stop contracting and return to normal levels seen...
Collaboration may be the hottest trend to hit the enterprise this year. But what makes it so hot? Why now? According to "Benchmarking Your Collaboration Strategy," a new report from Forrester Research, two key trends make collaboration important to the enterprise right now: The amount of content...
No one person has all the answers all of the time. The world is just too complex, moves too fast and has too many variables for an executive to know everything and be right every time. Great executives, including great CIOs, know this...
What can CIOs learn about IT disaster recovery planning from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) recent computer problems, which caused flight delays and cancellations at airports across the country? Plenty, say disaster recovery experts. The root cause of the FAA outage was reportedly the...
When Chuck Conaway took over as the chief executive of Kmart, he gave himself two years to resuscitate the discount retailer, get the right products on its shelves and make it competitive again with the new kings of general merchandising, Wal-Mart and Target. September 6 may...
The accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services was 40 percent larger than what the Indian software company’s former chairman had said, the Central Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday. Investigators found 28.09 billion rupees, or about $607 million, in additional accounting fraud at Satyam, V.V. Lakshmi Narayana,...
To say small business owners in Wisconsin are nervous about the outcome of the debate over health-care reform is like saying a football quarterback is jittery just before a 300-pound defensive end grinds him into the turf. Both know what's coming - and both can...