Thursday, October 12, 2006
Building and keeping an ‘A-Team’ of talent Developing and maintaining an “A-Team” of IT managers can be a real challenge in a tight job market. But there are effective techniques CIOs can use to attract and retain top talent in a strong economy, according to panelists who spoke at the Society for Information Management SIMposium 2006 conference in Dallas.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
e-Health in Canada - Electronic Health Record - Canadian Government eHealth eHealth is an overarching term used to describe the application of information and communications technologies in the health sector, according to Health Canada. It encompasses a whole range of purposes from purely administrative through to healthcare delivery.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Health’s IT cure As Canada’s healthcare system struggles with the myriad structural and technology challenges involved in creating a national system to measure wait times, there may be some lessons to be learned from the U.S. about how IT can benefit this process. At a recent SAS Canada-sponsored seminar in Toronto on business intelligence and scorecarding best practices for healthcare, two U.S.-based doctors shared their experiences around managing IT change in healthcare and deve- loping performance metrics.