Friday, October 7, 2011

IT News Head Lines (TechWeb) 07/10/2011





Hospitals, Home Health Fail IT Interoperability
If hospitals are to meet Medicare directives to cut hospital readmissions, they need to do a better job of electronically gathering data on patients after discharge, says KLAS report.

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SMBs Struggle To Corral Business Intelligence Data
Integration of distinct data sources is the big BI headache inside small and midsize businesses, study says.

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Air Quality App Leads EPA Challenge
Apps for the Environment rewards innovative ways to use EPA data; voting closes Friday.

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Problems Plague FAA's NextGen Air Traffic Control Upgrade
Delays, cost overruns, and other problems threaten to push the multi-billion air traffic control upgrades off track.

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Samsung Nexus Prime To Mark Ice Cream Sandwich Debut
Samsung is expected to debut the world's first Android 3.x Ice Cream Sandwich super phone at the CTIA trade show on October 11.

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Denied An EHR Incentive Payment? Appeal
As dollars are distributed under CMS' EHR incentive programs, the agency is establishing an appeals process for applicants that don't make the grade.

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Google Apps Vs Office 365? It All Depends
Interop panel says the choice of a cloud-based productivity platform comes down to a lot more than just the per-user price.

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Windows 8 To Dish Up Azure Services
Microsoft says in Interop keynote that the next version of its desktop OS will be tightly integrated with its cloud operating system.

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Anonymous: NYSE Attack Coming | Siri Will Make 4S Magic


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Most Businesses Don't Spot Hack Attacks
Congress hears testimony that most businesses are told by government agencies and law enforcement that they've been hacked, and that better security data sharing is needed.

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State CIOs Eye Consolidation, Cloud, Mobility
Cutting costs to manage shrinking budgets remains a chief concern for top state IT officials, according to annual survey.

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Nokia Confirms Windows Phones In 2011
The real question: Is Nokia already too late to compete?

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Anonymous Threatens New York Stock Exchange Attack
Calls for distributed denial-of-service attack as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

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British Electronic Health Record Collapse Sparks Lawsuit
Investors sue U.S. contractor CSC, claiming it concealed its inability to complete failed $18 billion U.K. National EHR Program.

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Smart Workplaces And Their iPhones
Apple actually does a pretty good job in helping IT to secure iPhones in a business environment. IT just needs to take advantage of what's available to them.

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Wrike: Simple Social Project Management
Project planning and coordination tool is aimed at business managers, not IT personnel or project management specialists.

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Apple's iPhone 4S Magic: Siri
While the iPhone 4S may have disappointed those who expected more innovation in the hardware, Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant could become the phone's next defining feature.

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Red Hat Expands Storage Portfolio With Gluster Acquisition
With $136 million buy, Red Hat will integrate Gluster's unstructured data management into its storage offerings.

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Rimini Street Expands Support To Oracle Database
Third-party support provider extends its 50% cost-savings promise. But will database management system customers go without patches and bug fixes?

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Do's And Don'ts Of API Development
In a sidebar to Oracle OpenWorld, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Salesforce execs say simple, well-documented APIs are key to business expansion.

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6 SharePoint Security Challenges
Even Microsoft recommends locking down its popular and widely used collaboration, file sharing, and online publishing platform.

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Verizon, Duke University Collaborate On Health IT
Duke and Verizon will focus on scaling up promising health IT innovations and using the network to reach a mass market.

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