(11/30/2007) When Dianne Beattie talks about the digital imaging hospital information network she oversees, her focus isn't on the IT equipment but on the improvement in health care delivery. Beattie is the CIO for St. Joseph's Health Care and the London Health Sciences Centre, two teaching hospitals that play key roles in the functioning of the Southwest Ontario Digital Imaging Network Project. She discusses how digital imaging and collaboration are changing the face of Ontario's health care system. | (11/28/2007) In an effort to improve health care services to citizens in rural and remote areas, the Alberta government is providing more than $2.4 million in funding towards the expansion of its telehealth network. Fourteen projects will be added over the next year-and-a-half, including real-time pharmacist verification and a "TeleWomen's health" project. | (11/27/2007) Following the deployment of its 3-1-1 telephone access to city services and programs, The City of Calgary has implemented a similar approach to provide HR-related services and information to 16,000 city employees. Dubbed HR Service Centre, the initiative gives city workers one phone number to call for HR-related issues and questions, said Gilles Champagne, manager of enterprise support systems with The City of Calgary. | (11/21/2007) Canadian health care workers are facing increasing challenges when it comes to the management of chronic disease. According to health care industry experts at a recent health care roundtable in Toronto, technology alone is not the solution; it's increased collaboration. | (11/20/2007) A recent survey of Canadians has shown overwhelming support for the use of electronic health records systems, provided the privacy of their personal health information are properly looked after. The report also reveals how Canadians feel about health-care delivery, data security, and more. | (11/8/2007) Public Works and Government Services Canada has launched a recruitment campaign aimed at filling over 300 positions within the department. PWGSC assistant deputy minister of human resources Diane Lorenzato recently spoke with Intergovworld.com and offered some tips on how to get a leg up on your public sector job hunt. | (11/8/2007) Public Works and Government Services Canada has launched a recruitment campaign aimed at filling over 300 positions within the department. PWGSC assistant deputy minister of human resources Diane Lorenzato recently spoke with Intergovworld.com and offered some tips on how to get a leg up on your public sector job hunt. | (11/7/2007) Mississauga, Ont.-based Credit Valley Hospital embarked on a $300-million expansion program that saw the hospital doubling its size. That also meant increased demand on the IT department for enhanced communication services. How the hospital is alleviating some of its IT department's woes. | (11/7/2007) Social networking tools, like wikis and blogs, will have a place in what the CIO of the Government of Canada is calling a paradigm shift towards a Government 2.0 workplace. Ken Cochrane recently sat down with CIO Government Review editor Mari-Len De Guzman to share his thoughts on the changing face of public service, the aging workforce, and government's green initiatives. |
  | |  | | 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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