(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. | (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. | (5/29/2008) A trade complaint has been filed against the European Union by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), saying the E.U. has violated a World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement by taxing the import of some tech products. | (5/27/2008) Five suppliers have been chosen to deliver the IT systems for the National Identity Scheme (NIS) project. The Home Office announced that CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM and Thales have all been invited to sign framework contracts and form a Strategic Supplier Group for the scheme. | (5/26/2008) In the business world, the level of control over wireless devices seems to vary widely, swinging back and forth between two extremes. At the one end of the pendulum is a policy in which very few (if any) workers are authorized to use wireless devices, and the approval process is stringent and centrally controlled. | (5/23/2008) In her 2007 report released Wednesday, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian urged the province to make a privacy-protective e-health record a priority. | (5/22/2008) Federal procurement practices, which allegedly favour foreign systems integrators, are helping to bury Canada's IT and telcom industries, Mitel Networks Corp. chairman Terry Matthews said Wednesday. |
  | |  | | 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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