CIO Insight Staff

Habitat for Humanity has a list of skills for potential volunteers to check off: plumbing, electrical wiring, Sheetrocking, roofing, skilled painting, semi-skilled painting, not-so-great painting, etc. Janet Perna never built a house. She did build a database empire at one of the world’s largest software companies. Over the past 31 years, she’s been one of […]

In a study from Johns Hopkins, a pocket-size device giving electronic-voice reminders to “take your medicine” proved to be a success for people living with HIV whose memory is slightly impaired by the virus. The investigators report that the device, dubbed “Jerry” by most users, is a portable gadget programmed to ease the task of […]

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations announced the launch of its new clinical trials portal. Developed in conjunction with IBM, it is the first search engine constructed specifically to provide access to a wide range of relevant online sources of clinical trial information. Sources of information include individual pharmaceutical company sites, sites run […]

The single most common—and most damaging—error in IT security practice is the failure to approach it from a strategic perspective. IT security is a complex and competitive endeavor. Attempting to address individual issues without a clear and consistent sense of the larger picture is like trying to play chess without being able to see the […]

If Global Warming, the H5N1 Virus, killer hurricanes, the possibility of Joe Lieberman’s running for president in 2008, and the never-ending quagmire in the Middle East don’t have you scared to the point of considering being a guest on the Jerry Springer show, how about this recent revelation from a press release: “Overweight employees could […]

University of California at San Diego biochemists have developed a computer program that helps explain how the same proteins can play different roles in a wide range of cellular processes, including those leading to immune responses and cancer. Researchers report that their computer model accurately predicts particular behaviors of living cells. “Our computational approach revealed […]

When Ameriquest put in place an automated system to speed mortgage processing, it cut more than half of the 50 steps used to administer loans. However, it also eliminated some of the checks that verified that the information on an application, such as a borrower’s salary, was accurate. Former Ameriquest loan officers charge that fellow […]

Too many managers are like my old co-worker Sergei. He had successfully escaped the Soviet Union in the early ’70s, worked hard, saved his money and bought his first car, an old beater Datsun 510 that was baboon-butt ugly. Among other major drawbacks, it had a paint job pitted from being downwind from a DuPont […]

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