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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Regs haven't made patient records safer, study says Most in the U.S. health care industry say their organizations have inadequate policies, lack resources and don't have enough properly trained staff to safeguard patient records
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
BI shouldn’t look like BI on smart phones During the Toronto stop of a Canadian road show to unveil release 2 of business intelligence tool MicroStrategy version 9, one exec explained why classic BI is no good for smart phones. Customers Hudson’s Bay and St. Elizabeth Healthcare share experiences with the software
Friday, February 05, 2010
Cavoukian fires back at Durham Health report criticism Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian takes issue with security vendor Websense’s criticism that her January report focuses solely on data encryption on mobile devices. She also disagrees that Canadian privacy legislation has no bite
Thursday, February 04, 2010
IBM has ulterior motives with Initiate: Informatica Data integration vendor Informatica, which recently bought master data management company Siperian, takes shots at IBM’s plans to buy Initiate Systems, warning customers IBM is not committed to MDM. Altimeter analyst Ray Wang said IBM’s approach to MDM is not as fragmented as it used to be
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Cavoukian’s order to encrypt health data not enough Security vendor Websense says Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian’s mandate that all 36 Ontario health authorities encrypt data in motion is barely enough to avoid data loss. Organizations focus too much on restricting types of endpoints
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Quebec hospital trims patient wait times After applying the lean health care methodology from Fujitsu Consulting that focuses on patient, not doctor, CSSS de Trois-Rivieres hospital cut patient visit time from 17 to four hours. The economic impact of leaner business processes
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Dell makes IT services push with US $3.9 billion Perot deal Plus, what the deal means for Dell’s push to win more IT services contracts in Canada’s government and health-care industries
Monday, May 18, 2009
SAS launches BI system for Canadian health care SAS offers the “Cadillac” of BI suites, but it could be useless if Canadian health-care organizations don’t improve their electronic data first, according to an analyst
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sun targets health care in Canada The president of Sun Microsystems of Canada says it's battling the rough economic waters by focusing on targeted opportunities
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The hot jobs in IT networking One of the hot IT jobs this year is the network architect. Though demand for network skills varies across the country, knowledge of network security and identity management is sought everywhere. Find out what Forrester Research says about the market for networking jobs
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
These iPhones could save your life Apple's popular smart phone is being used by Foothills Regional Emergency Services in Alberta to access electronic patient histories. Next up: bi-directional capabilities
Friday, February 01, 2008
Ontario government boosts funding for health care research A new research project in London, Ont. funded by the Ontario government is aiming to improve detection of neurological diseases such as brain cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's disease, according to Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
B.C. Health Ministry eyes shared services for health authorities British Columbia's Ministry of Health is creating a Health Authority Shared Services organization tasked to pursue non-clinical shared services initiatives among the province's health authorities. Health Minister George Abbott cited achieving cost reduction and resource optimization as the rationale for the undertaking.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Privacy complaints reach record highs, says Ontario czar The provincial government has reported record-breaking numbers of privacy complaints against health-care and public sector organizations last year. The high numbers, however, are likely due to the increasing volume of digital information being created today, rather than a shortcoming on the part of the government, says an analyst at IDC Canada.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
B.C. government sets $148M EHR project in motion The government of British Columbia has set in motion a province-wide $148-million health-care initiative that aims to reduce wait times for medical procedures, cut costs by reducing unnecessary re-tests, and provide medical practitioners with faster access to patient information
Sunday, March 11, 2007
WiFi unplugs city operations The common good is back in fashion. Across North America, from San Francisco to Fredericton, more than 200 crusading cities are building municipal Wi-Fi networks. Boosting business, providing Web access for poorer citizens, creating communal communications infrastructures: different cities have different missions driving their Wi-Fi projects.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Wi-Fi unplugs city operations The common good is back in fashion. Across North America, from San Francisco to Fredericton, more than 200 crusading cities are building municipal Wi-Fi networks. Boosting business, providing Web access for poorer citizens, creating communal communications infrastructures: different cities have different missions driving their Wi-Fi projects. 
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Vendor EHR networks get prime time debut Four vendors on Tuesday demonstrated electronic health records (EHR) and showed off their prototypes to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' American Health Information Community (AHIC) advisory board.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
IDC sees healthy IT growth through 2009 The days of double-digit growth may be over, but an uptick in spending by the media, communications and health-care industries will help to keep worldwide IT spending growing at a healthy clip through 2009, IDC predicted.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
IT’s prescription for better healthcare Not only is Matt Anderson, CIO of University Health Network, an innovative IT leader, as described in the August issue of CIO Canada, he is also an accomplished writer. In the following article, he describes how UHN is using IT to support the delivery of care and business processes. 
Sunday, August 25, 2002
It's a tougher world for unemployed IT workers Once upon a time and not so long ago, IT professionals could get new jobs at the drop of a hat.
Thursday, August 23, 2001
3Com offers simplicity with new wireless bride-to-bridge LAN Simplicity and affordability are the selling features 3Com is using to promote its newest product, the 11Mbps Wireless LAN building-to-building bridge.
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