CIO Thought Leadership

The Promise of Videoconferencing in Telemedicine By Claus Pedersen, International Manager, Medcom International Because it's basically an off-the-shelf technology, videoconferencing sidesteps many technical challenges, giving healthcare CIOs the ability to concentrate on the social and workflow challenges of transforming healthcare.

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Beyond Alignment: Integrating Business and IT Whether you're a newly appointed CIO or a seasoned IT executive, you have heard repeatedly that for IT to be seen as a driver of business value rather than a cost center, you must "align IT with the business." But should alignment always be your goal?		Crisis and Connectivity in Healthcare Healthcare is facing a global crisis, but what that crisis looks like depends on where you stand. In the developing world, governments are increasing their spending on healthcare, trying to build up the infrastructure - facilities and personnel - needed to deliver services to more than an elite fraction of their country's population.		Automating Software Distribution Keeps IT and Users Happy Quickly distributing application updates, security patches, and hot fixes to corporate desktops and laptops is a pressing problem for medium-sized and large enterprises, especially if their operations are national or international in scope.

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