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SOA: Shift Toward Lightweight REST Services

By Dick Weisinger

The velocity of SOA adoption is slowing considerably. And the organizations that are implementing SOA are choosing more lightweight technologies than the original vision of SOA. For example, use of SOAP protocol is way down. REST services are becoming the

Records Management: E-Health Records in Five Years

By Dick Weisinger

Four years ago George Bush said that the US would adopt a universal electronic health record program by 2014. The Obama administration is targeting the same date, and hopes to target electronic health records as an area that will spur

Technology: The Cloud to Rain on Healthcare and Financial Services

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner analysts Mark Stahlman and Michael McGuire are predicting that both Healthcare and Financial Services are ripe to be flattened by the internet. The media industry has already been dramatically reshaped by the power of the internet. And now other

eHealth Care: Another Health Care Information Exchange

By Dick Weisinger

2008 is shaping up to be a banner year for digitized Health Care. There’s another announcement in the area of eHealth Care. In Tennessee, statewide health care record management was signed into law in February. Nationwide only 20% of physicians

Health Care: Standards around Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft’s HealthVault, Google Health, and Steve Case’s Revolution Health. These are just some of the on-line personal health record repositories that have burst on the scene. It’s clear that a lot of industry heavies think that the time is ripe