(6/9/2008) What do CEOs want from their CIOs, and how can CIOs build on the power gains they've built up, even as everything around them is changing? CIO magazine tackled just that subject during a panel session at the CIO Leadership Conference and found five main keys to being a top-notch CIO today-and tomorrow. | (6/6/2008) Should people be able to hide abortions, AIDS, mental illness and other such touchy matters in their medical histories? The question is moot in a paper-based health care system: the hodge-podge of information out there about an individual is difficult to track and find, since complete medical records don't exist. But this won't be true much longer. | (6/5/2008) The Royal Berkshire NHS Trust is considering leaving the UK$12.4 billion National Programme for IT to choose its own patient record systems. Chairman Colin MacLean said the trust was examining the option of leaving the program, in the wake of the "worrying" development that southern region contractor Fujitsu was leaving the project.
| (6/5/2008) Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) has hit back at criticism from Ontario's Information Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian on the progress made so far in the development of an Ontario-wide EHR. | (6/4/2008) A Web site redesign complete with Web 2.0 capabilities is just one of the projects the City of Toronto's first-ever CIO has added to his plate in just over a year on the job. | (6/3/2008) Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations is hoping to increase the value of what it offers local residents and businesses by studying the way Web 2.0 tools work, according to its deputy minister. | (6/2/2008) Sue Corke doesn't have to be a Web 2.0 devotee to know that online technologies have the potential to drastically improve service delivery. "I don't use it myself," she admitted of tools such as blogs, wikis and social networking sites such as Facebook. "My kids use it a lot."
| (5/30/2008) A plan to auction spectrum will soon be voted on by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, with the winner required to offer free wireless Internet services. The winner of the 25Mhz piece of spectrum in the 2155MHz band would be required to use a specified amount of the spectrum to deliver free wireless Internet access. | (5/29/2008) Any employee can get in trouble for personal blogging on company time, but U.S. government workers, as one NASA employee has discovered, can get into a special kind of legal trouble if they also write about politics. | (5/28/2008) IBM Canada has announced the creation of a Centre of Excellence in Quebec City, the aim of which is to facilitate the international sharing of medical documents between clinics, physicians and hospitals. The exclusive global provider of the solution is Artefact Informatique, a division of LGS Group Inc. (an IBM company). |
  | |  | | 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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