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(7/5/2007) Like most publicly funded healthcare organizations, Sunrise Health Region in Saskatchewan is on a perpetually tight budget. For the umbrella outfit, made up of six hospitals, 14 long-term care facilities, and a smattering of clinics and community health centres in the southeast region of the province, wanton upgrades to technology infrastructures simply aren't permissible. | (6/15/2007) Cheap and plentiful data storage can be both a blessing and a curse. It creates the illusion there is infinite space available for data on networks. This intensifies human pack-rat tendencies to hoard data instead of evaluating what's really needed. All this accumulating data has impacts far beyond storage costs, cascading into all aspects of IT operations and management. | (6/14/2007) Cheap and plentiful data storage can be both a blessing and a curse. It creates the illusion there is infinite space available for data on networks. This intensifies human pack-rat tendencies to hoard data instead of evaluating what's really needed. All this accumulating data has impacts far beyond storage costs, cascading into all aspects of IT operations and management. | (6/13/2007) Cheap and plentiful data storage can be both a blessing and a curse. It creates the illusion there is infinite space available for data on networks. This intensifies human pack-rat tendencies to hoard data instead of evaluating what's really needed. All this accumulating data has impacts far beyond storage costs, cascading into all aspects of IT operations and management. | (6/12/2007) Cheap and plentiful data storage can be both a blessing and a curse. It creates the illusion there is infinite space available for data on networks. This intensifies human pack-rat tendencies to hoard data instead of evaluating what's really needed. All this accumulating data has impacts far beyond storage costs, cascading into all aspects of IT operations and management. | (6/8/2007) MPs have warned the U.K. government's CIO Council to clearly define their role and step up their game. The powerful Commons public accounts committee urged that the CIO Council should "become a key influence in government IT" by acting more like the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, which issues quarterly public reports on the status of all major projects. | (4/20/2007) Talk about new desktop operating systems may be at an all-time high, but the government of Australian state Queensland has no intention to progress from the six-year-old Windows XP for more than 100,000 computers to be purchased over the next three years. | (4/16/2007) Canada Health Infoway received an additional $400 million in funding from the federal government in the March budget that should ensure the funding body meets its targets for introducing electronic health records. | (4/6/2007) A new report by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Justice concludes that an ambitious, multi-billion dollar federal wireless network faces a 'high risk' of failing to be achieved. After nearly six years of work, and spending by the DOJ alone of US$195 million, there is little to show, according to Inspector General Glenn Fine. | (3/27/2007) The best technology and best of intentions may not be enough in the world of electronic medical records (EMR) for a clinic in the Southern U.S. The new EMR system at Harbin Clinic has the strong support of its CEO, board of directors and chief medical officer. Its technology can improve patient outcomes while saving physicians money. But cultural issues have stretched the implementation from two and a half years to four. | (3/16/2007) A Quebec medical practitioner says Canada's biggest problem with e-health is the lack of leaders among physicians to motivate the use of IT in their practices. A physician's work is more art than science, he says, and governments should open their coffers, offer more assistance and toughen their stance with legal 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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