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History of Assimilation
Two of the three telecom giants created by recent mergers trace their lineage to Ma Bell, the third to some…
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Computers Make Mumbling Doctors Worse, Good Doctors Better
When technicians place computers in patient exam rooms, the position of patients and clinicians should matter more than that of…
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CIOs Navigate a Restless Sea of Mergers
Jim Harding, CIO for the $4.1 billion health care company Henry Schein Inc., doesn’t like taking risks with other people’s…
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Check: How to Verify if You are Important
How can you tell if information technology matters? Start by examining the role of the chief information officer. If the…
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Calculator: Does Your CIO Have Clout?
Thousands of information-technology professionals now hold the lofty title of chief information officer, though many are no more than de…
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‘Leaders’ and Blarney: You Can Hear, But Don’t Listen
In my previous column, I explained how large organizations tend to accumulate people who believe that leadership is a critical…
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Software Scans Patient Files for Clues to Disease
Harvard scientists hope to build a computer system that can scan patients’ medical records to automatically find disease clues, like…
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Canada Invests in Health IT
In the last three years, the Canadian government has devoted only about $126 million toward health IT through Canada Health…
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Survivors Demonstrate How to Endure Disasters
Unlike other items in their IT budgets, corporations spend money on disaster-recovery planning in hopes that it will be wasted.…