Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Health IT: The Race Is On

A $30 billion information technology market is hard to pass up. That’s why the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ program to invest that huge amount of money in health records technology has received a lot of attention in the IT vendor community. That’s normal. What’s unusual is that Congressional hearings followed on the heels of new regulations in a matter of mere days.

The Greening of Business Sustainability

The most popular concept of sustainability revolves around energy use, and while I have no issues with energy as an issue, I think in business the idea goes further — all the way to products and customers. I will leave the last couple of ideas for another time and concentrate on energy today.