IT

From a scary story of newborn twins struggling for their lives to a cinematic allusion of driving a car over a cliff, the central theme of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition -- meaningful use of stimulus money to...

Dell joined a growing chorus of IT companies trying to grab a bigger slice of the market for digital health care records. The computer maker announced a series of partnerships on Monday aimed at bolstering its health care chops. At the high-end, the company announced a...

I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks. The deal’s collapse after weeks of negotiations raises questions about Sun’s next step, since the I.B.M. offer...

Two technology research firms have confirmed that a deeper-than-expected global recession has, indeed, reached the information technology sector. Both Gartner Inc. and Forrester Research forecasts predict that IT (information technology) spending will be harder hit than it was following the dot-com bust when...

Microsoft announced today at HIMSS 09 Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) 2009, the next generation release of the enterprise data aggregation platform that enables hospitals to unlock patient data stored in a wide range of systems and make it easily accessible to every authorized...

WTN will follow blog site HISTALK this week as they sort thru the what and chaff, reality and hype at HIMMMS 09 taking place in Chicago this week. ...

The old ways are gone forever -- CIOs must adapt to a new environment fully engaged with operations, customers, and revenue generation. The global recession that's crushing weak companies and challenging great ones has trashed -- permanently -- the traditional role of the CIO and the...