Let me see if I understand you correctly: Regardless of the ever-increasing cost and danger of EHRs, Americans are trapped?
In reply to: Re: Defending the value of EHR versus paper
@TerryB, consider me educated ... or on my way to being educated. Your guess is right that I just haven't been in an environment where SharePoint has been used to its potential. I have been in places where it's been promised...
In reply to: Re: New IT roles
I'm wary of IBM's percentage gains. IBM is so interested in putting out big figures -- $1 billion here, $2 billion there -- as impressionistic PR gains that I wonder whether it's accounting for its revenues in the same way...
In reply to: Hard to compare cloud revenues to clloud revenues
So we can probably expect this in about ten months?
In reply to: 8.1.1
Just look at the numbers. Unlike what happens in the consumer space, business and government are more selective of what they will support. The majority of phones bought in those spaces are iPhones. 70% of the tablets there...
In reply to: Re: No surprise
You can't always just look at numbers and make assumptions about what people want. Consumers, in particular, buy what they think they must. If they think they need to buy Windows, they will. It certainly doesn't mean they...
In reply to: Re: The device dilemma
I don't think it's authoritarian at all. It's a fact. This IS how it is. Hopefully it will change but the threat will never go away. This is true of electronic anything. I think the public has accepted...
In reply to: Re: Defending the value of EHR versus paper
Standardizing EMR's (the applications) is a very different issue from enabling interoperability (data definitions and semantics) and consistent data protocols that allow different EMR's to transmit and receive information. Standardizing...
In reply to: Re: Standardize what?
This may in a few cases solve the problem of the Amazon supplier who doesn't produce the goods in time for the holiday. Just press the Print button on the order form.
In reply to: Solving the missing goods problem in the Amazon supply chain
Agreed. I like the concept but not the current contents of the marketplace.
In reply to: Re: Not much that's appealing
According to Ponemon, here's the difference between paper breaches and digital: Only 5% of identities are breached from paper records, and most of these are because of improper disposal. On the other hand, hackers specifically...
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Although Microsoft still aspires to be a device company, I think it's inevitable that its future lies as a server company. it's last successful business device was the Windows PC. Which means that it's now a server company,...
In reply to: Microsoft is now a server company
"There are clear benefits to EHRs. You have to be willing to sacrifice some things to get them, like privacy or potential breaches or stolen identities etc etc etc to get them. That's just the way it is." That is an incredible...
In reply to: Re: Defending the value of EHR versus paper
Like Henrietta Lack's family? If so, hopefully it doesn't take multiple generations.
In reply to: Re: A great use for Big Data
I would hope that in implementing the suggestions from the fifty-one glorious pages from the above referenced NIST report that it would result in some kind of gold standard for cloud forensics, but then again, the federal...
In reply to: You say NIST, I say nah-
When you view the wall of shame, many breaches are the result of stolen or lost laptops. Some HIPAA breaches are paper-based. It's imperative that healthcare organizations, as a whole, do a better job of securing patient...
In reply to: Wall of Shame
I'd be interested in customizable metal tools. But for art objects, cheap plastic falls short.
In reply to: Re: Not much that's appealing
What's missing? What would make you open your wallet?
Me, I don't open my wallet easily to begin with, so this struck me as a very cool concept ... for other people to spend their money on.
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Building a Mobile Business Mindset
The differences between mobile apps and conventional Windows clients, or even web applications, are far more than skin deep. Yes, the touch-versus-keyboard interface, APIs, and programming languages are new, but that’s arguably the easy part. There are profound differences in how the two are built, the functionality each prioritizes, the release cycles on which they’re developed — even the attitudes, values, and work styles of the developers creating them.
IT Salary Survey 2014: Networking
Data center managers make slightly more than networking professionals, with middle-aged men on the coasts faring best. Both staff and management are optimistic about their career paths.
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