A recent Wall Street Journal report found that as the healthcare industry evolves amidst new pressures, traditional roles provided by care providers, insurers and other industry participants are beginning to overlap and blur. Anna Mathews writes that while Americans are demanding better care, the recent economic downturn has accelerated providers’ need to be efficient and cut costs. [...]
Microsoft recently partnered with the Virginia Department of Health and healthcare systems firm Unival to establish a statewide electronic healthcare registry, according to published reports. The registry will allow residents to provide doctors with instructions regarding what steps to take protect their lives in case of a medical emergency. Residents’ healthcare records will be stored within Microsoft’s HealthVault [...]
Vince Menzione is general manager of U.S. public sector partner strategy at Microsoft. Menzione leads a team responsible for partner engagement within the U.S. public sector. Menzione’s teams span the federal, state and local government, education and healthcare businesses in the U.S. The team engages with partners of all types including independent software vendors, large [...]
Accenture has been named to the 2011 Inner Circle for Microsoft Dynamics, being recognized for its commitment to generating business results for customers through optimized use of the Microsoft Dynamics platform. “This recognition by Microsoft that Accenture … has helped our clients achieve business performance goals with Microsoft Dynamics reinforces the unique Microsoft skills (that) [...]
A group led by salesforce.com and VCE are encouraging the Obama administration to adopt cloud computing. The group, made up of over 70 companies, recently sent a report to the Commerce Department and federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra saying the adopting cloud computing will drive job growth and secure U.S. technology leadership. “Without question, [...]
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to appoint Jaime Dos Santos, current president and chief executive officer of Terremark Federal Group, to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Joining Dos Santos in the committee are Scott Charney of Microsoft, Dick Costolo of Twitter, David G. DeWalt of McAfee, Lisa Hook of Neustar and John [...]
Technology blog GigaOm.com has named the Top 50 Cloud Innovators of 2011, and companies such as Cisco, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Juniper, Red Hat and Verizon made the list. The cloud division of the site called the Structure started a cloud conference and crafted the list after noticing the cloud trend around 2008. The Structure channel [...]
