(10/5/2006) Son's Playstation 2, Motorola's Razr V3 and BlackBerry's 850 Wireless Handheld are amongt the greatest gadgets of all time. | (10/5/2006) The first remote (you know, the one that worked with the help of a tiny hammer), the first digital watch and the first home computer are among our greatest gadgets of all time. | (10/5/2006) A robot that cleans for you, the mouse that defeated gunk and a mechanized Lego are among our top 50 gadgets of all time. | (10/5/2006) The portable two-way radio that changed everything, man's (robotic) best friend and the joystick revisited. | (10/4/2006) Interoperability in health care IT will not be fully realized until hospitals have all critical information in a digital format to start with, according to one industry expert. | (10/4/2006) The communications network used to transmit medical data for the U.S. government's Medicare and Medicaid programs has security vulnerabilities that could expose patients' medical data and other personal information, according to a report released Tuesday. | (10/4/2006) What makes big-ticket public sector IT projects so uniquely predisposed to fail? | (9/28/2006) Accenture Ltd. has walked away from two contracts to deliver regional IT systems and services to the U.K. National Health Service (NHS). | (9/27/2006) Ontario's Integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) is being heralded as hugely successful in coordinating the province's previously disparate outbreak reporting mechanisms. | (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. |
  | |  | | 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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