Info Tech

Here’s a statement about 5 info-tech trends that will affect nonprofits in coming years. The list includes: Evolving CRM Evolving application specific providers–i.e., access to apps over the Ner rather than in-house On-demand computing–sort of computing power as a utility Evolution of online communities Evolution of data analysis–digging into accumulated information rather than sitting in unorganized heaps What might it ...

Here’s an interesting notion, partly because this is the second time I’ve heard lately of schemes to put health records and information under the control of individual consumers. This one is a plan to go directly to consumers and encourage them to set up electronic medical records (EMR). It seems to be a kind of end-run around the docs, hospitals, ...

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has commented that America’s answer to offshoring is our innovative and entrepreneurial culture. He says it can’t be duplicated anywhere. With some reservations, I tend to agree with him (some of you may remember our discussion a few months ago of You’re-in-Control at MIT.)

When you think about major healthcare system players does the name IBM come to mind? Probably not, but maybe it should at least as we move into the future. Four years ago Big Blue opened a department on life science to develop the growing market for high-power computing in research. Now they’ve consolidated it with their medical care branch, and, ...