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(11/3/2006) Glen Murray is passionate about his vision for urban planning, specifically culturally dynamic urban centres, an issue he addressed in his keynote address to the Lac Carling Congress this year. The former mayor of Winnipeg, spoke with Lisa Williams, senior writer with InterGovWorld.com, on why we need to make changes in our urban planning now, the ups and downs of being mayor and the striking parallels between global warming and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Excerpts from their conversation follow: | (10/10/2006) Massachusetts CIO Louis Gutierrez last week submitted his resignation, saying a lack of legislative action on a bond bill needed to fund planned projects has left him to preside over "the dismantling" of the state's IT investment program. | (9/26/2006) Showcase Ontario is about meeting people, sharing ideas and discovering new solutions to existing problems, according to the chief strategist and corporate CIO of Ontario, Ron McKerlie. | (9/20/2006) Regardless of how many federal agencies can actually issue ID cards that are compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) by Oct. 27, observers say that the new standards are already making an impact outside of the U.S. government. | (8/29/2006) Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) staff is set to have full access to critical hospital information systems anytime, anywhere. | (8/28/2006) Days after Philadelphia's CIO announced plans to resign her post to take a job with a company that has done business with the city, Mayor John Street asked the board of ethics to determine whether the move violates city statutes. | (8/17/2006) Health and Community Services Minister Tom Osborne and Bill Fanning, board chair, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information, named Michael Barron as the new chief executive officer for the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information. | (8/1/2006) Since Teri Takai became CIO for the state of Michigan in 2003, the office has enjoyed significant results, including savings of $100 million (U.S.) Bringing to the table years of experience in senior roles at Ford Motor Co. and EDS Corp., Takai is a large part of why Michigan is highly ranked within the government technology field. She was saluted herself when Crain's Detroit Magazine named her as one of its 100 Most Influential Women. Takai spoke with senior writer Lisa Williams at the Lac Carling Congress, where among other issues they discussed the challenges of her job and why more women aren't in senior public sector positions. Excerpts from their conversation follow: | (7/27/2006) Ontario hospitals are in the process of rolling out a software suite that hopes to shorten wait times for key medical procedures, including cancer surgery. | (7/21/2006) When it comes to IT implementation by general practitioners (GP), Canada is a major laggard. A review commissioned by Canada Health Infoway found about 90 per cent of GP's in 10 countries are using computers for patient care, in sharp contrast Canada's use is about 20 per cent. | (7/18/2006) Ten years after HIPAA became a U.S. federal law, health insurers are scrambling to make changes to their IT systems in order to comply with one of its last major requirements. |
  | |  | | 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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