(4/11/2007) Now over two years into reorganization along regional lines, Ontario's 14 fledgling LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) must learn to speak with one voice and their systems must talk to one another. Their impact is being felt in many areas and will continue to grow as they integrate disjointed parts into a provincial system. | (4/10/2007) Now over two years into reorganization along regional lines, Ontario's 14 fledgling LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) must learn to speak with one voice and their systems must talk to one another. Their impact is being felt in many areas and will continue to grow as they integrate disjointed parts into a provincial system. | (4/9/2007) Information technologies that make government services more seamless have proved a catalyst for a huge and ongoing debate that covers the entire spectrum of government activity, from operations to policy to governance. Much of it revolves around what we call "the machinery problem." | (4/4/2007) The U.K. government has announced US$26 million funding to boost mobile working by children's social workers. The money from the Department for Education and Skills is aimed at helping employers invest in mobile devices, laptops and PDAs. | (4/2/2007) Your central point for all past, present and future Lac Carling information. | (3/27/2007) After a Senate committee said current legislation is lacking security and privacy safeguards, the future of Australia's Access card appears to be in doubt. While legislation to implement the Access card has been passed by the House of Representatives, a parliamentary Senate committee has called for additional legislation to provide safeguards and ensure it doesn't become a national identity card. | (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. | (3/26/2007) 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. | (3/23/2007) We've all seen it happen. Self-destruction. Career-limiting beB-havior. Professional suicide. Some previously normal and capable IT manager suddenly starts acting strangely and destructively. If you are the supervisor of such a person, you've got a challenge on your hands. | (3/21/2007) In Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Donna Achimov of Service Canada, we discussed read-to-me access to information and how a degree in journalism kickstarted a degree in public sector management. In Part 2, we look at how focus-testing can finetune services for citizens, how Service Canada employees stay connected even when they're way up North, and how being a "techie" can help if you want to work in the public sector. |
  | |  | | 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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