Info Tech

This NYTimes article says that eight of the heavies in the computer and softwared industry have agreed to adopt open standards for a health information network. So there’s hope of getting somewhere… Eight of the nation’s largest technology companies, including  I.B.M.,  Microsoft and  Oracle, have agreed to embrace open, nonproprietary technology standards as the software building blocks for a national ...

One thing nearly everyone agrees would benefit our health care system is moving to digital, computer-based records. It’s a massive undertaking and the key would be to seamlessly link hundreds of thousands of service providers and payers together while giving patients a sense of security about their medical information. The Bush administration has talked a lot about it but failed ...

The following material was provided to me by Robin Brown, Dir. Marketing/Communications, Border/Sierra Region, CA Division. It’s three links to articles about how short messaging service (SMS) is being used for marketing and, yes, cancer fundraising in parts of the world where cell phone text messaging is more widely used. SMS is growing in the US, and, for sure, it ...

I always hafta laugh when I see these articles about how some guy just figured out how to make distribution of content easier by putting together two pieces of evolving technology. In this case it’s combining peer-to-peer with RSS. The chuckle is that the music and movie industries and about every other content provider hates this and takes legal steps ...