He was more than impressed by their passion for an accessible health information technology system.
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The company established a powerful information technology system for managing more than 440 reporting units.
Where they have worked best, financial mergers have profited from the simple economies of scale offered by a common information-technology system.
Under the leadership of Dr. Nirav Shah, New York State Commission of Health, New York has been a vanguard state in fostering an environment of innovation in health information exchange, the use of health information technology to support delivery system transformation such as State-wide medical home initiatives, and initiating SHINY as part of the New York e Health Collaborative.
Payments to its parent hospital system for information technology and financial services aren't captured, nor is equipment depreciation, he says.
They can still rely on the services of an information technology firm to upgrade and maintain their system, as well as provide security.
Three core technologies are rapidly converging, unlocking new productivity gains in our energy system that come from modern information technology-enabled networks.
Some of the most serious challenges facing health care today--medical errors, inconsistent quality and rising costs--can be addressed through the effective application of available health information technology linking all elements of the health care system.
The plan also includes innovative tactics and cutting-edge tools, like geographic information-system maps that combine cartography and database technology to help locate children who have not been reached by vaccinators.
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The technology feels like a step backward, from big mechanical machines using nineteenth-century technology to a new system that involves people copying information by hand from one piece of paper to another.
Counter intuitively, the hardest part of realizing a decent data infrastructure is not the hardware or technology choice, but the design and architecture of your information system.
Yet today, the climate of innovation that has advanced technology at such a rapid pace, is being stymied by a patent system ill-adapted to the realities of modern information technology.
The mobile technology android-based system uses camera and GPS to collect information on wells and pumps.
Agencies must use a performance based management system that provides timely information regarding the progress of an information technology investment.
The new system uses sleeker, easier technology to access and share information, and in theory, get details to the appropriate responder faster.
To provide answers that aren't already in Google's ever-expanding database, the company will blend new semantic-search technology with its current system to better recognize the value of information on websites and figure out which ones to show in search results.
Apple acquired several companies to construct its mapping technology, as well as using information from third parties, such as navigation system maker Tom Tom NV, before it was ready to boot Google Maps.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
Since November, IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano has been making futurist statements about the need for a "smarter" national infrastructure, using information technology to upgrade the nation's roads, electric grid and health care system in a bid to increase their efficiency -- and to make America more internationally competitive and to create thousands of jobs.
Critical mass seems to be growing for serious patent reform legislation in the U.S. At the CES Innovation Policy Summit, the best-attended session so far featured Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who is co-sponsoring a bill which would severely limit the ability of holding companies to use the patent system to extort settlements, especially in the highly-litigated information technology sector.
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It is a system that relies on cookies to track user information and behavior, a technology that is not available within apps in iOS or Android.
The study found there was a positive link between good information technology and national test results, of 0.07 under the Spearman Rank Correlation statistical measurement system.
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