Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) are one of
the essential lynchpins in Healthcare IT. In the long run, EHR will
be the comprehensive record for patient care. Even a basic EHR will
contain a listing of all of a patient’s diagnoses and help prevent
harmful drug interactions. And if we’re lucky, EHRs will also
eliminate the need to fill in all that nasty paperwork with
complete health histories, every time we go to a specialist.
The good news is that the use of electronic health records...
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In so many
areas, the impact of computerization is now taken for granted.
Foreign travelers expect that they can shove their ATM card into a
machine anywhere in the world and money will pop out in seconds.
Nobody thinks about all the processing that takes place to get that
done. Ask an online search engine just about any question and it
will produce an answer—though not always a correct answer—in a
flash. And if you want to sort through terabytes of corporate data
to identify trends or other...
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Based on more than 3,000 interviews with CIOs
around the world, in companies large and small, IBM’s 2011 research
report The
Essential CIO, is part of its C-Suite Studies series. This
study is one of the more insightful and credible of its kind. The
report provides an in-depth look at the changing
role of the CIO within the enterprise and shifting demands on
the IT organization.
From a 20,000 foot perspective, the report
contends CIOs are faced with four different types of mandates—to
leverage...
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While many
folks in the IT world are entranced by the Big
Bang Theory and
the
Large Hadron Collider of
technology innovation—some “killer app” will appear that
revolutionizes everything—change in IT is usually incremental.
Sure Time magazine may have named the personal computer
the “machine
of the year” in 1983.
However, before PCs penetrated the corporate world, price points
dropped dramatically, processing power went into overdrive and the
graphical user interface became ubiquitous. Along the same...
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In almost stealth fashion, the last five years
have been a period of incredible innovation in corporate IT.
The emergence of cloud computing,
software as a
service, the demand for mobility,
the drive towards virtualization
and the recognition of the importance of
big data are leading to profound changes in the way
organizations generate, communicate, apply and store data. And
while the changes may not be as flashy and in your face as the
previous IT revolutions launched by the personal computer...
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The last week of December represents the perfect moment to review
one last set of predictions for the New Year. After all,
predictions can lead to resolutions and resolutions can lead to
broken resolutions. Just kidding. Predictions can actually lead to
setting the IT agenda; if not for this year, then for the next, or
the year after that.
Perhaps the most extensive menu of predictions this year has come
from the
Gartner Group
with
36 ideasabout what tomorrow might bring. The long list ensures...
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With the New Year upon us, it is time to turn
once again to one of our favorite past times—predictions. Where
will you, your competitors (or your clients) be investing IT
budgets next year?
The
CIO Insight’s 2012 IT Investment Patterns Study
forecasts that large enterprises will be increasing their budgets
most significantly in
mobile applications development, wireless equipment and
network attached storage. Mid-range companies, on the
other hand, are stepping up their spending on ERP,
sales...
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In 2007, Malcolm Gladwell, perhaps
the best-selling author on the planet today, now that J.K. Rowling is taking a
breather, published the intriguing book Blink. The beguiling thesis of
the book was that snap judgments made by the right person can be
good - very, very good actually. Many people walked away from the
book with perhaps the oversimplified or even wrong message that
they should just go with their gut since it is usually as good as
other methods of decision-making.
Well, don’t believe...
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The market research group
IDC
has just released is annual predictions for IT for 2012 and the
bottom line is that you can expect more of the same. The two key
trends are the continuing proliferation and deployment of
mobile devices and the ongoing adoption of
Cloud technology.
Mobility found its way onto the list twice. The increased use
of mobile devices ranked third on the list and the build-out of
mobile
networks ranked sixth.
Cloud
computing also showed up two times with expanding...
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Date: December 7,
2011
This briefing features a leading industry analyst Michael Lock,
Senior Research Analyst Business Intelligence from the Aberdeen
Group, and IBM subject matter experts discussing how to increase
organizational intelligence and arm key decision makers with the
power of business visibility.
AbstractThis briefing examines top pressures driving the need for
analytical strategy in the midmarket. If the past two years of
market volatility have taught us anything, it is the need...
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Companies and organizations really should know better. Allowing
intruders
to breech their networks is not good. People break into a network
because they want to
do bad things and after they do break in, they leave
backdoors
and
Trojan
horses behind so they can steal data on an ongoing basis. And
ever since networks became the critical
backbones to most
IT infrastructures, organizations large and small have invested
heavily to prevent
network intrusion. You know all this, but does everybody?
Acco...
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There is still plenty of room for improvement within your
IT infrastructures. Organizations are specifically facing
challenges in deploying and using technology to support business
analytics and growth strategies according to a recent study
conducted by
CFO Research
Services and sponsored by
IBM. The report entitled Finance
Executives on the Value of Technology Investment for Midsize
Companies was released in March 2011.
The research segmented the respondents into two groups -
midsized
companies...
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The problem with most surveys outlining
IT priorities is that they cast too big a net. While
generally speaking,
corporate CIOs may rank business
intelligence high on the priority list, for example, the
overall number masks the fact that priorities are different for
different sized organizations in different industries.
The divergence in priorities according to
company size and industry
sector was made very clear in a new
survey by IBM, which studied mid-market (100 to 1000...
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Key Information Systems - Can work out of Woodland
Hills Corporate Office as well (Orange County, California
Area)
Job Description
In this role, the
Architect is expected to have subject matter expert
knowledge in NetApp and IBM N Series storage solutions. The
architect will serve as the resident go-to resource
for storage projects.
This is a technical pre-sales position with an element of
post-sales support.
A typical engagement is the architect will partner
with a sales account manager to...
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Key Information Systems - Can work out of Woodland
Hills Corporate Office as well (Orange County, California
Area)
Job Description
In this role, the Architect is expected to have subject
matter expert knowledge in Cisco Networking, Brocade
Networking, and other IP management tools such as SolarWinds, Fluke
Networks, and Palo Alto Networks. The architect will serve as
the resident go-to resource for IP network projects.
This is a technical pre-sales position with an element of
post-sales...
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Decision support
systems and their progeny
business intelligence have long been thought to be the domain
of large companies, often
very large companies. Even the term “data
warehouse” conjures up images of vast amounts of data that has
to be pulled and assembled to serve up a report.
Historically, projects geared to building business intelligence
infrastructures have cost
millions of dollars, taken months if not years to complete and
have involved scores of people from both the IT organization...
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Webinar Series -
Date: Wednesday
- November 9, 2011
Time: 11:00am
PT
IBM's Netezza is enabling
organizations to gain an entirely new level of business analytics
performance. Netezza improves your data warehouse performance by
10-100 times, at half the cost of traditional solutions. Netezza is
scalable and easy to use.
Netezza is a purpose-built,
optimized analytics engine. It has placed the processing power at
the disk level, so analysis occurs at the source at streaming
speeds - analysis that took...
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Enjoy this article by Krishnan Parasuraman - CTO, Digital
Media and General Business at IBM Netezza
Big Data is increasingly becoming a part of the enterprise IT
vernacular and we are seeing it rapidly move through the hype cycle
as a viable value creation opportunity for enterprises. In a recent
report, McKinsey estimated
this value to be in the order of billions of dollars and
deemed it the "next frontier for innovation, competition and
productivity".
The unprecedented growth and availability...
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