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The Women Technology Leaders initiative was recently launched with the goal of illuminating the challenges and opportunities facing women looking to succeed in IT. In this edition of Healthcare IT Strategies, we caught up with Colleen Schromen, director of IT for AccentCare. She shares her experienc…

Do you know what your next steps are to mature and grow your accountable care programs? As a new discipline in healthcare, accountable care does not have a road map to maturity. To help healthcare IT professionals, IDC Health Insights, thanks to help from our parent organization, has developed a mat…

Healthcare IT departments are battling to secure patient information given the increased use of mobile devices and BYOD. Email is one area in which data leakage is possible, so companies like Mimecast are dedicated to ensuring HIPAA-compliant security. Mimecast will be attending this fall’s He…

Almost two-thirds of Fiberlink’s healthcare customers are supporting a bring-your-own-device program, according to Neil Florio, vice president of marketing at Fiberlink, a mobile device and application management solution provider. That’s higher than most other customer segments Fiberlin…

The new HealthEdge State of The Payer survey results revealed that although there is a continued strong interest from payers related to supporting new healthcare business models, the number of people that are ready to support these new models is still lagging. Although this survey is still open to …

One of the biggest mysteries of the midmarket is the total IT spend that takes place on services, software, hardware and networking equipment.  Projections of actual dollars spent and allocation of IT as a percentage of revenue vary dramatically by company and industry. While industry pundits …

HP is currently undergoing a major change in identity as it goes from “world’s largest manufacturer of PCs and printers” to focusing on its enterprise data center server, storage and networking arena, which brings in more than 45 percent of the technology titan’s business. &…

Things have changed an awful lot since my very first role as CIO. At that time, ERP was all the rage with costly, mind-numbing projects designed to support every internal process in the enterprise. Then, Al Gore invented the Internet, and we suddenly had to open our processes to the rest of the worl…

The Women Technology Leaders initiative was recently launched with the goal of illuminating the challenges and opportunities facing women looking to succeed in IT. As part of the WTL effort, launched at MES this past May, we asked successful women to share insight on mentoring, career advancement an…

At MES East in Chicago on April 29 and 30, I had the chance to speak with three extraordinary IT leaders [watch videos]. Each had a unique set of experiences, but all focused on practical insights that IT executives could take back to their offices. The first interview was with Duane Anderson. An…