Lessons in Spanish e-health
July 16, 2008
The lack of a shared, agreed vision is a central problem in Canada's approach to healthcare transformation, says Dr. Alex Jadad, director of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University Health Network in Toronto. By contrast, Spain spent considerable time and effort in defining the shared vision of a revamped healthcare system at the outset with the public, physicians, policy-makers and other stakeholders before re-engineering it.
The rise and fall of the Government 2.0 Think Tank
January 18, 2008
Back in June 2006, when Facebook was still a university phenomenon, a group of civil servants started up the Government 2.0 Think Tank (G2TT) in Ottawa. Led by Patrick Cormier, then a military lawyer and a project director at the Department of National Defence (DND), G2TT's aim was to provide a forum to connect people who want to use open source and Web 2.0 concepts to make governments more efficient and interactive.
Chyma links doctors across Canada
September 11, 2006
Scheduling physicians into the workflow of multiple healthcare sites is a major administrative headache, as most of these institutions use outdated or even paper-based systems.
A home-grown Web-based application called Chyma has been adopted by many Canadian communities to tackle scheduling and communications of doctors.
Rand survey addresses information security void
August 21, 2006
A new security survey being produced by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Rand Corporation on behalf of the U.S. Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) seeks to connect the islands of information available on information security into a more coherent whole.
Due to be published in early 2007, the survey will produce industry-level statistics in 36 sectors on the number and consequences of cyber attacks, frauds and thefts of information.
IT job market sizzles across Canada
August 18, 2006
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"The past two quarters are the strongest we've seen in our 25 years of operation," says Terry Power, president of CNC Global, a Toronto-based IT recruiting firm. "We are seeing more demand today than we did during the dot-com and Y2K eras."
Employers clamouring for IT-business 'combo' skills
August 17, 2006
That's one of the key findings of a Canada-wide IT hiring trends tracking report recently released by CNC Global, a Toronto-based IT recruiting firm.
Costs of mobility vex CFOs, CIOs
August 11, 2006
Ghost in the machine
The promise of autonomic computing
August 9, 2006
The idea of an autonomic, self-healing computer that mimics the way the nervous or immune systems work in humans, is a tantalizing possibility. And there is no question there is an urgent need and huge market for it.
IT drives the biggest change of this century
July 25, 2006
Collaboration means more than a warm fuzzy feeling. It will be the central, defining business concept of a new type of borderless organization and the driving economic force in the 21st century.
Roll-up TVs in seven years, predicts Xerox
Company promises gee-wiz tech products from lab research
July 21, 2006
Imagine an IMAX-sized TV screen for your living-room that you could roll-up and down; wireless electronic wallpaper that changes colour, form and design with your mood; electronic newspapers that look and feel like real paper, thereby saving millions of trees from daily slaughter.
Why Wi-Fi may be injurious to your health
Study to assess potential risks of Wi-Fi access points in Toronto
July 18, 2006
First, children living near power lines were believed to be at risk for leukemia. Then, cell phones were going to fry our brains. Now, should we worry about Wi-Fi hotzones?
Prompted by citizen concerns , the Toronto Board of Health is conducting a study of the potential health risks posed by Toronto Hydro Telecom's plans to blanket the downtown core with Wi-Fi access points.
Da Vinci Code decoded, virtually
June 18, 2006
The storyline in the Da Vinci Code may be a flight of religious fancy – but the actual images in the movie have to look real to audiences.
Computer-generated (CG) images were used extensively in the summer blockbuster, all created with Autodesk Maya 3D animation software.
Canadian business 'lags' in productivity, investment
April 27, 2006
Canadian business got yet another smack from analysts for lagging the U.S. in productivity and investment in new technology at the LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld Canada conference underway in Toronto this week.
Out of Africa: Story of humanity decoded from DNA
April 26, 2006
Who are we? Where do we come from? What links all humanity?
Social critics say technology removes meaning from human lives, but there is a project underway that will answer many of these eternal questions.
Phreaking out over long-distance charges
April 25, 2006
Phreakers are still at it.
Plummeting long-distance phone rates and free calls via VoIP still haven't removed the economic incentives for voicemail hacking, also referred to as "phreaking" by industry insiders, to make free long-distance calls.
The doctor is always in – on the Web
March 20, 2006
Canadians are increasingly turning to the Internet to self-diagnose their medical conditions. That's according to HealthInsider, a national survey of 2,500 Canadians conducted by IBM.
Homo economicus tackles cybersecurity
February 14, 2006
Pity the benighted chief financial officer (CFO) – or at least try.
He presides, Solomon-like, over the purse-strings of his organization. All manner of internal departments compete for finite funds, all with urgent needs. Which projects will live, and which ones will die? These are the decisions he must make daily.
Wikinomics at the vanguard
February 6, 2006
Donald Tapscott sniffs yet another dramatic paradigm shift in the eddies and currents of today's business and social trends: from traditional, closed, stale economics to open, orchestrated, transparent "Wikinomics."
How to get a life
Silicon Valley exec's tips for techno-trapped geeks
January 30, 2006
Raj Setty, the man who wrote the book – literally – on personal development for techno-geeks who need to get a life, is no stranger to the grinding overtime, panic-stricken searches for technical material, and boom-and-bust cycles of IT careers.
