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Yearly Archives: 2011

Health Care: Slow Transition to Electronic Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

The digitization of health records is proving to be a massive undertaking.  The move from paper to electronic records has been encouraged by a pool of $25 billion of stimulus funding made available by the Obama administration to incentify hospitals…

Technology: What's the Next Hot Technology?

By Dick Weisinger

BlueWolf, a self-described agile business consulting firm, recently released a report that provides a snapshot of which technologies are currently hot, which are cold, and what’s likely to be the direction of technology over the next year.  Visually the report…

Cloud Computing: Security Concerns Blown out of Proportion?

By Dick Weisinger

The main themes at the DreamForce 2011 event sponsored by Salesforce.com in San Francisco were social, mobile and the cloud. On the cloud theme, Vivek Kundra,  and in his  last few days as Federal IT CIO, said at DreamForce that it is ‘ridiculous’ for…

Technology: Users Take the Enterprise Home

By Dick Weisinger

Technology  is rapidly changing how people do their jobs.  A recent IDC report found that technologies that are forcing that change include mobility, collaboration and social media. More than half of US and European workers now report that their laptop…

Technology: IT Budget Growth Estimates Revised Downward

By Dick Weisinger

While many IT budgets remain huge, a majority of analysts and economists are now adjusting IT spending forecasts downward over the next year.  The US Federal budget currently comes in at around $80 billion, and Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President of…