Two of health IT’s most outspoken figures, athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and Turntable Health CEO Dr. Zubin Damania, are trying to spark a physician revolt against bad EHR design. Monday, health IT vendor athenahealth, with the help of Damania’s rapping alter-ego, ZDoggMD, launched “Let Doctors Be...
As aficionados of all things technology related, most IT professionals jumped on the smartphone bandwagon very early. In recent years, the iPhone has become one of the more popular smartphones in IT shops. Yet, until recently, there was a dearth of iPhone apps specifically geared toward...
There’s a lot yet to be determined in the lawsuit between the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and Apple. WARF, which oversees and protects patents on University of Wisconsin inventions, sued the tech giant in February 2014, claiming Apple used a piece of microprocessing technology invented...
The city of Chattanooga, Tenn. is rolling out a whopping 10-fold speed increase for customers of its publicly owned Internet service, enabling download rates that leave Google Fiber in the dust....
The first thing I Googled from the driver's seat of this $142,000 Tesla Model S P90D was a plea: "turn off tesla." A representative of Elon Musk's heavily hyped automaker had just patiently explained everything I would need to know about the all-electric sedan, including how...
Federal jury finds Apple infringed on University of Wisconsin technology patent A federal jury that found Apple Inc. infringed on a technology patent held by the foundation that protects the University of Wisconsin's intellectual property has begun hearing testimony in the damages phase of the case....
Dell's second annual Global Technology Adoption Index shows companies investing in big data, cloud, mobility, and security are enjoying about 50% faster revenue growth than their competitors that didn't invest. Companies that invest in big data are growing at a 50% faster rate than their competitors,...
Dell will buy the storage provider EMC in a deal worth about $67 billion, the companies said on Monday. It will be one of the largest takeovers in the history of the technology industry. Andas Nick Wingfield noted last week, the deal is the most...
In the largest tech deal in history by far, Dell and partners MSD Partners and Silver Lake agreed to buy EMC today for $67 billion or $33.15 a share. This is way over the price of $27 and change that was being rumored last week,...
The natively “smart" economic system has the potential to disrupt virtually every facet of the global economy. Gartner has raised the alert to prepare for the “programmable economy”, which it says has the potential to disrupt virtually every facet of the global economy. The “programmable economy” is...