CIO Insight Staff

The journal of the American Hospital Association, Hospitals & Health Networks, recently released their annual study of technology adoption among provider organizations. The results are based on responses from more than 1,200 hospitals in the United States. The study found that strong integration of IT improved patient outcomes. On average, Wired hospitals have risk-adjusted mortality […]

Two of the three telecom giants created by recent mergers trace their lineage to Ma Bell, the third to some of her early long-distance and wireless challengers. But even as the phone companies consolidate, they face new competitive threats from Voice-over-IP upstarts like Vonage and Skype, technology players such as IBM and Microsoft, and cable […]

In my previous column, I explained how large organizations tend to accumulate people who believe that leadership is a critical talent in senior executives, qualifying them to have power even if they have no ability to actually manage. I also talked about how ridiculous that is and how unhealthy the results can be. Click here […]

Harvard scientists hope to build a computer system that can scan patients’ medical records to automatically find disease clues, like unintended side effects or genetic susceptibilities to asthma. It could answer questions that would normally need prolonged, costly clinical trials. The five-year, $20 million project called I2B2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) is […]

Unlike other items in their IT budgets, corporations spend money on disaster-recovery planning in hopes that it will be wasted. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s not. The most extreme examples of disaster recovery followed the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, which not only killed entire departments at financial companies such as Cantor Fitzgerald but also burned […]

“Leadership” is the growth sector of the 21st century. There’s an entire industry built on “leadership.” Books and magazine articles focus on it as the miraculous talisman that makes victory in a challenging environment possible. Ridiculous. When I consult with the recruiting managers for my clients, the single most common misconception they bring to the […]

It may seem like science fiction, but five graduates of Carnegie Mellon’s Masters in Human–Computer Interaction program have developed a new technology that lets drivers broadcast their own radio stations as they hum down the highway. They call it “roadcasting.” “The basic idea is that every car on the highway can be its own radio […]

Promise Employees and IT folks are both looking for better communications tools. When it comes to digital communications, convergence is like the Grand Unified Theory: a single solution that remains frustratingly undiscovered. The promise of one software suite that combines VoIP, e-mail, instant messaging, collaboration, document workflow and Web conferencing—and delivers them all through a […]

Branding Unbound: The Future of Advertising, Sales, and the Brand Experience in the Wireless Age By Rick Mathieson Amacom, July 2005 256 pages, $24.95 One of the problems with writing technology books is that the market refuses to stand still while you’re writing. As a result, cutting-edge insights can seem hopelessly dated by the time […]

Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site By Mike Moran and Bill Hunt Prentice Hall PTR, July 2005 560 pages, $49.99 Well, they are nothing if not methodical. Moran, a “distinguished engineer and manager of site architecture” at IBM Corp., and Hunt, president and CEO of Global Strategies International, a […]

In a column earlier this month, Jeff Angus suggested that we offshore technology executives and managers and asked for “pro” and “con” arguments on the following resolution: Resolved: That offshoring technology executive and/or development management will benefit project effectiveness and organizational competitiveness. Below are some of the responses: Subject: Con You make this statement early […]