A Boston based physician will lead the President's health Information technology vision. The Department of Health and Human Services announced today the selection of David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. as the Obama Administration's choice for National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. As the National Coordinator, Dr....
You know entrepreneurism is going upscale when the Wall Street Journal and The Economist are covering it. The Wall Street Journal may have gone decades without writing about a company that wasn't publically owned, and The Economist has long prided itself on being above the fray...
New system automates transmission of medical records for processing disability claims The Social Security Administration (SSA) today said it has gone live with a disability claims processing system that was designed to reduce the time millions of Americans spend each year waiting for benefits to be...
Think you know SaaS? There are a few things about the fast-evolving, on-demand software model that might surprise you. For starters, SaaS is becoming more flexible and more customizable than ever before. And while IT is usually stuck ironing out messy integration issues, this time...
Times are tough in the biotechnology sector. So tough that some companies are looking for ways out. The problem is, the most feasible way to do so is to find a buyer, and few companies large enough to make acquisitions are willing to shell out that...
Recession Pushes Some to Eschew Flexible Job Policies With the recession forcing businesses to cut back on workers, employees are increasingly doing all they can to hang onto their jobs and are forgoing many of the benefits that once allowed them to balance the demands of...
Finance is not comedy, and when it becomes that, the last laugh is on you. When Comedy Central starts sounding more authoritative than CNBC in its sobering observations about how the market got messed up, it's time to change out some of the "talent" and...
Ten years ago, Marc Benioff was a visionary, seeing vast potential in selling business software as a service over the Web. Today, he’s just another executive selling so-called cloud computing, the bandwagon du jour in the technology industry. Mr. Benioff, the animated chief executive of Salesforce.com, helped...
Laid off. Downsized. Words that are heard often these days. That you would devote a significant amount of your time to finding another job is a given. But even the most aggressive job hunt won't take all your waking hours. There are only so many...
It was especially poignant as I sat in my home office and watched Twouble With Twitters. This cartoon exposed the prevailing inanity of Twitter — where people tweet about relationships, finding a parking spot, mastering some new techno-gadget — before some outsider tells them all...