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Technology: File Format Enforces Paperless

By Dick Weisinger

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has come up with an idea they hope will get people to limit the number of documents that they print.  WWF estimates that each person prints 1410 unnecessary pages each year.  The idea is a…

Health Care: Is There a Safety Issue with EHRs?

By Dick Weisinger

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are touted as being more efficient than paper record keeping systems.  They should be more capable of reducing errors due to illegible handwriting, avoiding misfiled documents, and in spotting problems like identifying possible dangerous drug interactions…

Enterprise Content Management: Innovative Forces in Managing Information

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises aren’t thinking strategically when it comes to information, according to a Gartner report.  Ted Friedman, vice president of research at Gartner, says that companies need to apply real innovation because times have changed.  Two big changes have been the…

Open Source: EU EIF Ruling Jilts Proprietary Software Vendors

By Dick Weisinger

In mid-December the European Community ruled on their policy for evaluating software to be used in the transfer of data between the member nations.  The new rules are strongly tilted in favor of open source solutions. The document is called…

SaaS: On a Convergence Path with the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS and Cloud Computing have been growing rapidly.   New research from Gartner estimates that the SaaS market grew at 15.7 percent in 2010 to $9.2 billion, with slightly stronger growth of 16.2 percent expected in 2011, raising global SaaS…