Profile of David F Carr
Editor, InformationWeek Government/Healthcare
Member Since: 11/15/2013
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News & Commentary Posts: 834
Comments: 773
David F. Carr oversees InformationWeek's coverage of government and healthcare IT. He previously led coverage of social business and education technologies and continues to contribute in those areas. He is the editor of Social Collaboration for Dummies (Wiley, Oct. 2013) and was the social business track chair for UBM's E2 conference in 2012 and 2013. He is a frequent speaker and panel moderator at industry events. David is a former Technology Editor of Baseline Magazine and Internet World magazine and has freelanced for publications including CIO Magazine, CIO Insight, and Defense Systems. He has also worked as a web consultant and is the author of several WordPress plugins, including Facebook Tab Manager and RSVPMaker. David works from a home office in Coral Springs, Florida. Contact him at [email protected]and follow him at @davidfcarr.
Articles by David F Carr
1/7/2015
Microsoft's new boards feature makes it easier for MS Office users to find and share work-related information.
1/6/2015
Long a pioneer in adopting electronic medical records, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is on the verge of making them work together in new ways.
12/30/2014
For six simulated space explorers, practicing for a Mars mission means never having a real-time conversation with anyone "back on Earth."
12/23/2014
A journalist who writes about software writes his own and finds out coding is not easy. In fact, easy is particularly hard.
12/22/2014
NY-Presbyterian CIO Aurelia Boyer says the need for mobile innovation has driven her back into the application development business, but she wants to keep it manageable.
12/8/2014
Comets and capsules grabbed top headlines, but robots racked up some firsts, the commercialization of space saw advances and setbacks, and the US prepared to resume manned space launches.
11/25/2014
Retired from government service, Linda Cureton is putting long hours into a consulting business (but also envisioning a "real" retirement someday).
11/21/2014
Some CIOs "retire" but then consult. These five decided to do something completely different.
11/12/2014
European Space Agency made history with a robotic comet landing. Now can it debug a critical glitch before the lander floats away?
11/12/2014
NASA has been publishing a lot of data for a long time, but getting it into standard machine-readable formats is still a herculean task.
11/10/2014
Technology and business leaders from Goldman Sachs, Kaiser Permanente, and other heavyweights gather at the Apptio-sponsored Technology Business Management Conference in Miami Beach to trade ideas.
11/4/2014
Brought in as a midseason replacement after the disastrous October 2013 launch of the Affordable Care Act website, Accenture says this year's open enrollment period should go much more smoothly.
11/3/2014
Harper Reed talks about the pressure-cooker challenge of building an email-powered, microtargeted online fundraising machine in a hurry. See the video interview from Interop.
10/31/2014
Pricewaterhouse Coopers and partner firms urge Department of Defense to consider open source VistA for EHR contract, vying against IBM/Epic and other commercial contenders.
10/28/2014
Watch candid interviews with Interop New York attendees and keynote speaker Harper Reed on 3 hot topics: Windows 10, iPad vs. large-screen phones, and Internet of Things.
10/23/2014
Putting fault aside, facts of the case align with a common pattern where the use of EHRs contributes to medical errors. What should this unusual case teach us about EHRs and routine?
10/15/2014
Creator of cloud apps for government buys Government Outreach, known for citizen relationship management tools.
10/8/2014
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wants to see engineers get more respect, have more fun, and play nice.
10/8/2014
A tight but effective IT budget creates opportunities for new investments in digital government, say government IT leaders at Gartner Symposium.
10/7/2014
IT leaders need to keep building solid, reliable systems, while also devoting more attention to digital experimentation.
10/6/2014
At Gartner Symposium, MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson praises tech advancements such as self-driving cars, but says the real challenge is to make the digital economy translate into wider prosperity.
10/1/2014
From the InformationWeek Leadership Conference at Interop: Business units won't wait, so you may as well help them do things right.
9/25/2014
Silicon Valley is obsessed with data collection, including personal data. But for health and fitness monitoring technologies, the real goal must be meaningful health results.
9/24/2014
Healthcare disruption is real, the MediFuture event showed. How you react determines whether it's a threat or an opportunity.
9/18/2014
Onetime "Catch Me If You Can" swindler turned anti-fraud consultant says identity theft is "4,000 times easier" than when he was living a life of crime.
9/16/2014
Open source programmers and maverick election officials want to improve the way we vote, register to vote, and count the votes. Wish them luck.
9/5/2014
NASA moves nasa.gov and engineering apps to Amazon Web Services and open source software, transforming space agency's infrastructure.
9/4/2014
Megan Smith, known for her work with Google's advanced technology exploration arm, replaces Todd Park as CTO. Job one: federal tech innovation.
8/28/2014
Drawbaugh, whose inventive approach to healthcare IT and revenue creation earned UPMC a No. 1 ranking in the 2013 InformationWeek 500, is leaving his role after 18 years.
8/27/2014
The XPrize competition promises to make Star Trek's Tricorder a reality of sorts, with the winning device a compact sensor for vital signs and a variety of diseases. Check out these mockups from the 10 finalists.
8/22/2014
Fortune Magazine is reporting White House CTO will leave that post but may help with Silicon Valley recruiting.
8/22/2014
Oracle first sued Oregon, and now the state responds with lawsuit claiming the company's "shoddy" performance is to blame for health insurance exchange website debacle.
8/20/2014
At the 2014 GRC Conference, House IG Theresa Grafenstine argues internal auditors must be more forward looking -- and explains why being exempt from regulations just makes her job harder.
8/20/2014
From space exploration robotics to subway subsystems, New York has technology to cover everything. Check out some cool examples near the Javits Center, home to Interop New York -- and beyond.
8/19/2014
Security audit groups ISACA and IIA weigh in on what role the board of directors should play in an enterprise's cybersecurity strategies.
8/15/2014
After pilot involving infant mortality data, Indiana adopts SAP Hana in-memory database as foundation of new management reporting system, plans open data website for citizens.
8/14/2014
Effort to apply the lessons of HealthCare.gov is praiseworthy, but may not get at the root cause of problems with digital government services.
8/13/2014
State and federal customers are ramping up iPad use, says enterprise mobile software firm Good Technology.
8/13/2014
After Gartner analysts rank NetScout only a "challenger," Netscout files lawsuit alleging Gartner's rankings involve pay for play. Let's examine both sides of this street.
8/11/2014
In a lawsuit against the state, Oracle claims it is the victim of a smear campaign designed to obscure the state's project management failures.
8/8/2014
Open source projects like the National Library of Medicine's Pillbox show potential of open innovation -- including competition with projects started elsewhere.
8/7/2014
Why can't a simple formula replace the politically charged gerrymandering that's skewing our election processes?
8/7/2014
Legislative mandate to consolidate IT services has produced results, state leaders say.
8/6/2014
Cerner will spend $1.3 billion for Siemens' health IT business, says it will continue to support both companies' electronic health records software as part of a broader population health strategy.
7/30/2014
US State Department database used to process passports and visas still hasn't recovered from a crash last week -- leaving tens of thousands of people stranded overseas.
7/28/2014
Proposed FAA dividing line between model aircraft and drones is too limiting to hobbyists, says the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Academy of Model Aeronautics.
7/24/2014
Federal Trade Commission must observe core principles of consumer protection, regardless of the pace of technology, Commissioner Julie Brill says.
7/24/2014
Federal agencies have a hard time fitting innovation into their plans, let alone their budgets. Open data and open-source software help make innovation happen anyway.
7/22/2014
New manned spacecraft will use a flight computer adapted from jetliners for deep space missions to the asteroids and Mars.
7/21/2014
IBM and Apple hope to use existing partnerships with healthcare software vendor Epic Systems and doctors' love for their iPhones and iPads to build an iOS healthcare software empire.
7/16/2014
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promises Worldwide Partner Conference audience that productivity tools will top the company's priorities in the age of mobile and cloud.
7/10/2014
With FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification, the Imation IronKey portable USB-based workspace becomes a mobility option for both civilian and military agencies.
7/8/2014
Urban data map, bound for the Smithsonian by way of Esri's user conference, was created in partnership with Richard Saul Wurman, architect, graphic designer, and founder of the TED conference.
7/3/2014
Humanitarian organization Direct Relief uses mapping to visualize needs and plot the logistics of distribution before disaster strikes.
7/3/2014
VistA Core modernization and modularization will prepare the Veterans Administration's electronic health records system for the future.
6/26/2014
EHRs are commonly promoted as boosting patient safety, but are we all being fooled? InformationWeek Radio investigates.
6/24/2014
State officials, not shoddy software, stopped the consumer launch of the Cover Oregon healthcare website, Oracle reportedly says in documents submitted to Congressional committee.
6/23/2014
Should accessing an antenna and a DVR through the cloud be treated as any different under the law than doing so in your own home?
6/13/2014
Computerized reporting is useless when data is kept off the books.
6/6/2014
Social media analytics RFP seeks to sort serious from sarcastic threats against government officials.
6/5/2014
The startup Captricity uses a combination of crowdsourcing and OCR to digitize mountains of paper records, particularly for government agencies and healthcare.
6/4/2014
Health Data Exploration Project sees research gold in mining consumer health data from pedometers, fitness bands, and other gadgets.
6/3/2014
Apple affirms its commitment to mobile health by partnering with market-leading hospital software firm and renowned healthcare provider.
6/2/2014
CMS updates, elaborates on public healthcare utilization, while FDA announces API access to its database of adverse drug reaction reports.
6/2/2014
Director Karen DeSalvo prescribes flatter structure for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
5/30/2014
LaunchPad platform combines health data with marketing-optimization strategies to bring continuous-improvement methodologies to medical practices.
5/29/2014
Physicians are wary of new healthcare payment models emphasizing quality and efficiency metrics, but hospitals are likely to prove resilient.
5/28/2014
Baptist Health CIO Roland Garcia reflects on his career and what he sees as the primary goal of healthcare IT: to improve care and minimize suffering.
5/27/2014
Hospitals find themselves implementing new releases of EHR software, certified to 2014 standards, almost as soon as vendors release certified versions. That's almost like implementing Windows 8 immediately after release.
5/27/2014
For a medical practice, EHR may be important -- but practice management is essential.
5/19/2014
Regulatory requirements have gone from high priority to the only priority for healthcare IT.
5/15/2014
A hospital and an independent physician's organization use apps along with EHRs to improve ACO operations.
5/14/2014
Four-story 120,000-square-foot building will be first in the nation dedicated to telemedicine and remote monitoring programs, says Mercy Health.
5/7/2014
What's the best formula for value-based healthcare? Former HHS secretary Shalala and an insurance company CEO try to answer that question.
5/7/2014
Medical data privacy isn't as much of a worry as online banking data privacy for these patients, Accenture study finds.
5/1/2014
Healthcare organizations know they need analytic software tailored to accountable care organization operations and population health management -- but they're not sure where to get it, finds KLAS survey.
4/30/2014
To fix US healthcare, we must embrace the free market messiness of the Internet economy, argues Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush.
4/29/2014
Penn Highlands CIO Tom Johnson says going far beyond minimum requirements is the key to qualifying for EHR incentives.
4/28/2014
One example: a renewable energy firm wanted to implement more rigorous process management, but also needed to leave room to improvise.
4/25/2014
Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange votes to close down state website and send customers to the federal HealthCare.gov website.
4/25/2014
Healthcare organizations steam ahead with ICD-10 preparations, including hiring, despite delay of the new diagnosis and billing codes for at least a year.
4/23/2014
BaseHealth's Genophen service wants to reach consumers (through their doctors) with strategies for "modifiable risks" -- a more FDA-friendly approach.
4/22/2014
The shared pediatric diagnostic imaging system that Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and New Jersey's Virtua have created goes beyond conventional health information exchange.
4/18/2014
Medical image-sharing service aims to tap Nuance's customer base for voice-powered medical documentation technology.
4/11/2014
Sebelius didn't write the code for HealthCare.gov, but she is paying the price for failing to oversee those who did.
4/11/2014
Quest Diagnostics capitalizes on regulatory change and gives patients access to their own lab results on the web and mobile devices, boosting its own EHR software in the process.
4/10/2014
Explorys uses combination of big data and specific patient data to improve care, lower costs.
4/10/2014
Healthcare organizations scramble to revise projects and maintain momentum after ICD-10 delay to 2015, says Deloitte's healthcare practice expert Christine Armstrong.
4/8/2014
The cloud EHR is particularly popular with solo practitioners because it's free, says Black Book Rankings, but Practice Fusion also gets high marks for desirable features.
4/4/2014
Social service eases HIPAA fears by validating medical credentials of all members, allowing professional collaboration among physicians.
4/3/2014
Delayed implementation of the new coding standard may bring relief to some healthcare workers -- but it's the worst possible outcome for project managers.
4/3/2014
With a 3D anatomical model on the iPad, Modernizing Medicine taps the power of touch to simplify electronic health records and medical coding.
4/2/2014
Data analytics project helps restaurant company, No. 5 on the InformationWeek Elite 100 ranking, gather information on every step of the guest experience.
3/31/2014
The Obamacare website faced heavy traffic on Monday, the deadline for open enrollment, and suffered problems.
3/31/2014
Congress is on the verge of delaying healthcare's new diagnosis code system for another year -- a relief to doctors, but a pain for CIOs.
3/27/2014
...and the logic behind them.
3/26/2014
Sharing healthcare data among family members, with less concern for privacy, could result in better healthcare, says Zibdy Health.
3/21/2014
Postmortem report confirms diagnosis of weak project oversight, unrealistic goals, and poor performance by Oracle.
3/20/2014
HealthCare.gov has recovered from its rocky start. So why are state exchanges -- opened by enthusiastic supporters of the Affordable Care Act -- still suffering?
3/19/2014
Collaboration between IBM and the New York Genome Center will use Watson to match cancer mutations to potential treatments, compressing process from months to minutes.
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