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Health Privacy: Health Privacy Laws Aren't Putting the Patient First

By Dick Weisinger

James Pyles, co-founder and principal of the law firm of Powers, Pyles, Sutter, & Verville, criticized the handlng of health information privacy in the US at a Health Privacy Summit in Washington DC.  It was reported  by Dan Bowman of FierceHealthIT…

The Cloud: Fun Facts about Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

Charles Babcock, editor at InformationWeek, recently included ‘5 Cloud Facts’ as part of his cover story piece on an investigation on the economics of Cloud computing.  Those facts came from as suite of surveys and studies done at InformationWeek.  Those facts…

Business Social Media: Tech and Media Industries Lead Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

CEOs are split on exactly how beneficial social technologies are to their businesses today.  In an MIT Sloan Business School study, “Social Business: What Are Companies Really Doing?”, 52 percent said that social is important or somewhat important to their business…

Collaboration: Open Standards that will Drive the Future of Collaboration

By Dick Weisinger

At Innovate 2012 conference, IBM identified 10 Open Standards important to  collaboration technologies in the areas of social, web, cloud and mobile that they think will have a big impact. Darryl Taft, senior editor at Ziff-Davis, recently published IBM’s top…

Social Media: Employers Increasingly Monitor Employee On-line Activities

By Dick Weisinger

While less than 10 percent of companies now are monitoring employee use of social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and others, that is likely to change over the next few years.  Gartner predicts that 60 percent of companies will…