You can lead doctors and hospitals to health IT, but you can't make them adopt it. That, in essence, is what providers said in a new survey looking at their interest in and use of health IT. To conduct the research, researchers reached out to...
BLANDING, UT – Blue Mountain Hospital, an 11-bed hospital in Blanding, Utah, plans to implement a new electronic health record designed to automate operations and improve quality of care. “Even though we are a small hospital, we believe that our patients deserve the best of care,”...
Twitter has captured peoples' imaginations like nothing else on the web in years. It's growing fast, gets talked about all the time in other media, has fostered a huge developer community and gets used in more ways than anyone could have thought possible. It's a...
Is your enterprise business intelligence strategy stalled, with new business managers reluctant to get involved or users not adopting the BI tools? Assuming that you have the basics in place -- you established what the business wants to measure, you integrated the right data sources...
Bing search engine is snazzy and provides user-friendly links. Google is to search what Kleenex is to tissues. Even if you're in the habit of using another search engine like Yahoo to look up something online, you probably say you "Googled" it because everyone...
While it's true that Apple has significantly grown its share of the desktop operating system market since the release of Windows Vista in November 2006, the company's market share remains below 10 percent, and it actually dropped in Q1 2009, according to Gartner's Worldwide PC...
The worldwide recession has hammered IT budgets but has also prompted vendors to make their software pricing and licensing models more customer-friendly, according to a new Forrester Research report. Forrester's report looked at how 12 enterprise software vendors' pricing and licensing strategies changed in the fourth...
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether some of the nation's largest technology companies violated antitrust laws by negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another's employees, according to two sources with knowledge of the review. The review, which is said to be in...
I know I'm going to regret this. Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., a well-known outplacement consultancy, recently distributed a press release reporting the results of a survey of HR executives they conducted. The results were interesting enough that I'm making an exception to my policy of ignoring...
Project Lead the Way grew by 32 percent in 2008 thanks to enthusiastic students and parents, dedicated teachers and administrators, and financial support from school boards, industry and the state. An informative series of middle and high school classes that blend science, technology, engineering and...