(3/7/2007) Canadian physicians want to use more online tools to consult with their patients, but they say there are obstacles. And one of those obstacles is remuneration. | (3/7/2007) Canadian physicians want to use more online tools to consult with their patients, but they say there are obstacles. And one of those obstacles is remuneration. | (2/26/2007) The U.S. Department of Defense's lead intelligence agency is using wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and enterprise "mashups" to help its analysts collaborate better when sifting through data used to support military operations. | (2/15/2007) Workflow just got a little smoother for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) thanks to a new content management system. Based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft InfoPath 2007, the new system now allows ACOA employees in 40 offices across Atlantic Canada to work and share information within 'managed workspaces' in a secure, centralized portal. | (1/18/2007) Deploying a single customer relationship management (CRM) system has enabled a Canadian health benefits provider to enhance client services, more than triple its sales, and streamline operations. | (12/8/2006) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun mailing claim forms to more than 1,400 identity theft victims who spent money to clear up identity-theft problems due to a security breach at data broker ChoicePoint Inc. announced in early 2005. | (11/27/2006) More than 12 months after the Department of Commerce in New South Wales approved suppliers of open source software and services to state government agencies, there hasn't been a single sale. | (9/26/2006) Film-based X-rays are quickly disappearing in England, as its health care facilities switch to a digital system that can send images of broken bones and fractured ribs over a network instantly to different clinics. | (9/25/2006) eHealth is an overarching term used to describe the application of information and communications technologies in the health sector, according to Health Canada. It encompasses a whole range of purposes from purely administrative through to healthcare delivery. | (9/19/2006) A recently rolled out financial tracking system at the University of Alberta (UA) hopes to ensure research dollars don't go over -- or under -- budget. | (9/12/2006) European and U.S. security officials were locked in talks in Brussels Monday to replace a passenger data sharing agreement that was outlawed by a European court in May. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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