Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’

From time to time, it is a good idea to re-evaluate potential IT architectures especially with the cost reduction pressures in healthcare IT. The growth in maturity of several key players in the open source software arena is gaining the attention and respect of healthcare IT decision-makers and worth evaluation as a lower cost alternative. […]

Perficient just published a whitepaper authored by one of our Technical Architect in Indianapolis, Kyle Burns.   It’s titled, Microsoft Entity Framework for the Enterprise.  I’ll put the description below but for any who ask why my portal blog would care about something like that I say that more and more enterprise SharePoint implementations will accessing […]

Thanks for Erin Moloney for pointing this out to me.  Tara Clark at Business2Community.com has a quick post on the 5 ways you can harness the power of social tools.  I won’t steal her thunder by reposing everything but I will provide a quick list and then commentary on one item that stuck out at […]

Oracle held a customer briefing today, March 26, 2012 highlighting updates to the WebCenter suite of products. If you are not familiar with WebCenter, it has four main components: Sites, Portal, Content and Social.  I posted a blog in November 2011 titled Oracle Web Center Explained! with details about WebCenter. This briefing covered the 11g R1 […]

Recently rolled off a large payer, I am sitting back and reflecting on what is facing the healthcare industry today and what has happened over the past 15+ years (Looking at the forest rather than the trees). 1) Are we, all business and information technology professionals, clinicians, and non-clinicians, working on the correct priorities for […]

The afternoon session of the Gartner conference started off with a collaboration by Gene Phifer and jim Murphy talking about Employee Portals.  Originally, most portals were aimed at employees.  More recently vendors and business have been turning to Customer portals.  But with the rise of social capabilities, the Employee Portal and Intranet are again a […]

Jim Murphy and Ray Valdes are presenting on the topic of Generation 7 Portals.  Portals have been around since 1998 and have evolved over 7 generations according to Jim.  Gen 7 Portals include the following features, which have been built on the previous generations: Analytics Portal-less Portals Context aware Portal ubiquity Emerging UXP Widgets dominate […]

Gene Phifer spoke about the trends in what Gartner calls the User Experience Platform (UXP).  The big change from last year appears to be a split in the emerging UXP market into Suite vendors and Lean vendors. Gartner sees many vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle expanding more and more into the Suite side […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

The point of healthcare technology is to close the gap between quality, cost and access. As we have said before, EMRs don’t close the gap, but they are a very necessary piece to closing the gap. However, a gap still exists between the information in an EMR and the information a clinician needs in the […]

CRN has a short article about the latest update to Google Docs and better mobile support, especially for the Android.  While anyone who follows the mobile world won’t be surprised by the content, it’s probably a good time to reflect on larger implications…………………. One of my recent clients had taken a close look at Google […]