(8/28/2006) If seniors are in rocking chairs they're most likely in front of computers surfing the Net. That's because seniors are now the fastest growing demographic of Internet users in Canada, according to the Minister Responsible for Seniors, Jim Bradley.
| (8/24/2006) President Bush issued an executive order requiring the four agencies charged with overseeing fed programs to overhaul IT for the exchange of health data and measurement quality. | (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. | (8/17/2006) A developing technology could soon help detect lung cancer in its earliest stages. | (8/15/2006) Earlier this month, the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association announced an initiative to compile claims information from 79 million patients into a database that can be shared with 20 participating Blue Cross plans. | (8/15/2006) A new technology that hoped to stop unnecessary repeat visits to the emergency room (ER) has proved successful in its first few months. | (8/11/2006) Edmonton is set to deploy a region-wide EMR and scheduling system. With partners Capital Health, and Madison, Wis.-based Epic Systems, the city is aiming to have a common database to support clinicians and physicians, and ultimately benefit patients by October. | (8/11/2006) Help is on the way -- via electronics -- for patient's who want to manage their chronic diseases all by themselves. The afflicted, as well as pharmacists, in Sault Ste Marie should soon be able to access relevant medical information through Group Health Centre's (GHC) electronic medical record (EMR). | (8/4/2006) A lightweight tech device may be helping Canadian doctors to lighten their ever increasing workload. | (8/4/2006) The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has been hit with a massive computer outage, with 80 NHS Trusts in the North West and West Midlands unable to access their systems since 10 a.m. local time on Sunday. |
  | |  | | 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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