Despite economy: Technology Confabs report record attendance

While many national business conferences are being scaled back or canceled as a result of economic conditions, the HIMSS 2009 conference for health IT professionals and vendors located in Chicago reports that total conference registration parallels the record-breaking registration figures during this same time...

While on a R&R trip I had the opportunity to attend Saturday's third round of CA Championship and watch as Tiger Woods played an awesome round after falling behind after a less usual Wood's performance in rounds one and two. Woods has just resumed golfing...

President Barack Obama is looking for some sector of the economy to lead the nation out of recession, and he's putting down a $730 million dollar bet Monday on small businesses. Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will announce a plan Monday to make it easier...

President Obama's stimulus package addresses very diverse segments of the economy, including health care, education, research, and infrastructure. However, all of these components have one thing in common: the reliance on information technology as the engine powering these stimulus initiatives. A key initiative in the stimulus...

IBM researchers are testing a 3-D version of an electronic patient record, complete with avatar, at Thy-Mors Hospital in northern Denmark. Scientists at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, in collaboration with experts from IBM Denmark, created the software, which provides a medical information hub....

As economic forecasts predict an ever-lengthening recession, CIOs will continue to be called upon to trim costs and create better operational efficiencies. We spoke with Frank Casale, CEO and chairman of the Outsourcing Institute, and Allen Weinberg, principal and North American leader of McKinsey & Company’s...

We’ve all seen the parting e-mails from employees who leave the company for one reason or another. Some are short and sweet, some are longer. But are these notes a risk? Over the span of my career, I’ve read many goodbye e-mails. These are the (usually)...

Reports: former boss Vivek Kundra to take leave from new job as federal CIO until more details are known about FBI investigation WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials filed bribery charges today against the District of Columbia's acting chief security officer, along with a one-time D.C....