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eHealth Records: Privacy is the Stumbling Block

By Dick Weisinger

With $19 billion earmarked in stimulus funds to bootstrap this country’s electronic health record system, one would hope for a quantum leap forward in a very short period of time. Obama has put forward the challenge to digitize every American’s…

Records Management: NARA's Records Management Security Questioned

By Dick Weisinger

NARA has lost a two-terabyte hard drive containing data from the Clinton presidency. NARA is the government’s central Record keeping organization, so a goof like this is an embarrassing moment. A backup of the information exists, but the information contained…

E-Discovery: Companies are at Risk

By Dick Weisinger

E-discovery is the term that refers to searching electronic documents in a company to find information that supports or refutes legal charges raised in civil litigation.  Regulations require public companies to be able to search and retrieve all documents that…

SOA: Everybody is Doing it, Should You?

By Dick Weisinger

Earlier in the year, analysts have argued about whether SOA is a dead technology.  Despite the talk, surveys have found that SOA adoption is way up and growing.  But Gartner is questioning the meaning of the numbers. SOA adoption is…

Technology: Customizations Lead to Lock-in

By Dick Weisinger

IDC is reporting that many customers invest a significant number of dollars to get their ERP systems up and running.  And the process of getting up and running usually involves significant software customization. The drawback of highly customized systems are…