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  • Not-for-profit - Part 3

    How are relations between not-for-profit with IT vendors?

    Written by Tim Mendham • 20 April 11 15:37

  • Not-for-profit - Part 1

    CIOs talk about the role technology plays in this vibrant sector.

    Written by Tim Mendham • 15 April 11 06:00
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    In-memory computing

    The massive explosion in data volumes collected by many organisations has brought with it an accompanying headache in terms of putting it to gainful use. Businesses increasingly need to make quick decisions, and pressure is mounting on IT departments to provide solutions that deliver quality data much faster than has been possible before. The days of trapping information in a data warehouse for retrospective analysis are fading in favour of event-driven systems that can provide data and enable decisions in real time.

    Written by Brad Howarth • 20 Jan. 11 09:33
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    Healthcare IT Dilemma: iPad Lust Meets Software Reality

    In addition to being a top priority for legislators and the press, healthcare has become a major target for IT vendors. Driven by economic pressures that force hospitals to merge and consolidate, regulations that force better documentation and security, and legislation that may fundamentally change the industry's business models, healthcare companies will spend more on technology this year than any other type of company, according to a study released Jan. 31 by Enterprise Strategy Group.

    Written by Kevin Fogarty • 12 Feb. 10 08:02

  • How a Children's Medical Center Rebuilt it's Facility

    Engaging stakeholders in a board game helped prioritize high-tech amenities.

    Written by Kristin Burnham • 14 Oct. 09 01:51

  • Social media takes toll on organisational reputation: survey

    The reputations of organisations are taking a beating in social media, with consumers going so far as to boycott companies based on comments made on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, a new survey has found.

    Written by CIO Staff • 01 Sept. 09 14:58

  • Special Report: The New Economics of IT

    The Australian CIO Executive Council polled 121 top local IT executives and found that the current economic crisis is taking its toll on Australian IT departments. Find out more in our special report “The New Economics of IT”.

    Written by A CIO Executive Council Report • 24 March 09 16:37

  • Swine Flu Prompts Aussie CIOs to Revisit Business Continuity Plans

    Australian health authorities may have given the all clear for two local suspected cases of the swine flu virus -- which has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 20 in the United States -- but concern over the spread of the potentially fatal disease has local CIOs revisiting their business continuity plans (BCP).

    Written by Tim Lohman • 28 April 09 10:28

  • Preparing for a Pandemic: A Primer

    With the possibility of a swine flu pandemic in mind, CIO has put this collection of preparedness articles together to help companies review their own plans.

    Written by CIO Staff • 30 April 09 08:00

  • You'll Sneeze If Your Suppliers Get the Flu

    A simulation at MIT of an avian flu outbreak in China underscores the need for companies to consider possible supply chain disruptions as part of their plans for handling emergencies

    Written by CSO staff • 01 June 06 12:49

  • Creating Better Vision

    As India's Sankara Nethralaya hospital took on more applications to meet patient needs, its network went on a blink, leaving the hospital blind for hours. When the problem moved from being an irritant to life-threatening, it knew only a network management system could save it.

    Written by Kanika Goswami • 08 Oct. 08 09:17

  • Need a Hospital Bed? We’re Expecting You

    The Australian e-Health Research Centre has created an innovative new forecasting tool to ease backlogs in hospital emergency departments

    Written by Sue Bushell • 11 Sept. 08 16:21

  • Wyeth's Prescription for BPM Success

    For a pharmaceutical company like Wyeth, no function is more important than research and development - the process of finding new drugs that will lead to patents and profits. And for the information systems group that supports R&D, business process management (BPM) is emerging as a key technology and management strategy to make that function more efficient.

    Written by David F. Carr • 11 Aug. 08 14:17

  • E-medical records: What seems to be the problem?

    It's been about three years since San Diego's five major hospitals first convened to discuss sharing electronic medical record data in an effort to improve diagnoses, reduce errors and improve the quality of patient care. The group held several meetings and entered discussions with a vendor as a possible corporate sponsor -- and that was that.

    Written by Robert L. Mitchell • 16 July 08 12:22

  • Doctors and Patients Worry About E-Health for Different Reasons

    A new study finds while both government and industry organizations have been pushing electronic records systems, doctors remain reluctant to do so

    Written by Sue Bushell • 17 July 08 11:13

  • How social networking saved New Orleans

    If there is any doubt to the power of social media, social networking and social software, then nonbelievers may need to Think New Orleans.

    Written by John Fontana • 30 June 08 08:08

  • 20 Things You Can Do In 20 Minutes to Be More Successful at Work

    There are things you can do in just 20 minutes that can have a meaningful and even a long term positive effect on your IT organization, your career, your technology knowledge, your management skills and your relationship with the business. We've gathered 20 of the best ideas we could find

    Written by Stephanie Overby • 05 March 08 13:06

  • Paper Cuts

    Ever since its flagship bionic ear first materialized in the late 1970s, Cochlear has become synonymous with Australian innovation and manufacturing success on a global scale

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 06 Aug. 07 13:15

  • E-Health Starts with The Patient

    The best way to implement an e-health project is to involve users from the start, and to make the patient the centre of things, says a former Saudi CIO soon to visit Australia

    Written by Sue Bushell • 19 July 07 10:48

  • 7 Ways CIOs Can Introduce Web 2.0 Technologies into the Enterprise

    One essential promise for Enterprise 2.0, or Web 2.0 for the enterprise, is making important information available to the people who need it, in large part by using blogs and wikis to capture and store institutional knowledge, says Dion Hinchcliffe, president and CTO of Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 consultancy Hinchcliffe and Company, during his session at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston

    Written by Diann Daniel • 05 July 07 09:55
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