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Is Information Technology going soft by promoting meaningful use?  Yes, in Health Care.  Your last visit to the doctor, does she or he still have your profile in a folder?  Is it still in shorthand that they purposely write in cryptic notes so you don’t understand a word of it.  Health care is moving from paper-base to elvolving to health infomatics.  Just as you can log in to your bank account, you can log in to review your health records and can actually understand it.  That’s hi-techie!

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009, to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.

http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/community/healthit_hhs_gov__home/1204

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The health information technology industry is booming due to the economic stimulus boost.

The Project Management Institute surveyed more than 30,000 project management professionals in 29 countries. In the U.S. alone, 13,572 project management professionals responded to the survey.

Annualized Salary By Position Description: United States

The July 2010 Computer.org career news reports:

US small and medium-sized business channel partners may lose from 200,000 to 250,000 jobs in the next decade as the rapid growth of cloud computing reduces the need for internal IT staff, according to a recent study by AMI-Partners. More than 1.3 million people are currently employed in this area.

TECH BIT: 64-BIT IS THE NEW BYTE

One of my favorite application I have administered and managed is Microsoft SharePoint.  The 2010 version is here

SharePoint 2010 is a rich platform for enterprise and user collaboration, data storage, and information retrieval.  SharePoint 2010 needs 64-bit software and hardware. SharePoint 2010 also offers browser support with Internet Explorer 7.x and higher (32-bit) and Firefox 3.x and higher (32-bit), which are both supported as Level 1 browsers.

TECH TIP:  When accessing cloud computing into your plan, consider IDC cloud services survey which reveals security, availability and performance as top challenges.

http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=543

TECH TIP: INCLUDE QUALITY IN YOUR PLAN

A colleague of mine gave a talk on Quality and Quality tools.  It’s good to be reminded that the definition of quality is different for everyone.  If you are from an engineering or manufacturing sector, you would speak of number of defects, if you are a tennis pro you would speak of excellence or performance.  If you are an IT specialist customizing a software application you would measure quality by customer satisfaction and the successful delivery of requirements such as features and functions.  Different aspects of quality to consider also, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement.

There are numerous tools available in measuring quality; control charts, statistical sampling, quality audits, cost-benefit analysis, just to name a few.

National Center for Women & Information Technology reports:

In 2003, only one-third of women with a computer science bachelor’s degree were still employed in a science, engineering or technical (SET ) job two years after graduation.

Seventy-four percent of women in technology report “loving their work,” yet these women leave their careers at a staggering rate: 56 percent of technical women leave at the “mid-level” point just when the loss of their talent is most costly to companies. This is more than double the quit rate for men.

National Center for Women & Information Technology reports:

• Girls represented just 17 percent of Advanced Placement computer science (CS) exam-takers in 2008; that’s the lowest female representation of any AP exam.
• In 2008 women earned only 18 percent of all CS degrees. Back in 1985, women earned 37 percent of CS degrees.
• Women hold more than half of all professional occupations in the U.S. but only 25 percent of all computing-related occupations.
• Only 11 percent of corporate officer positions at Fortune 500 technology companies are held by women.
• A study on U.S. technology patenting reveals that patents created by mixed-gender teams are the most highly cited (an indicator of their innovation and usefulness); yet women were involved in only 9 percent of U.S. tech patents.

TECH TIP: INCLUDE BUSINESS CONTINUITY IN YOUR PLAN

 Business Continuity: Implementing Disaster Recovery Strategies and Technologies dated 3/31/2008

 Aberdeen benchmark report survey of 150 end-user organizations. Best-in-class IT organizations have built infrastructures that support rapid recovery of data and applications with minimal or no downtime which assures business continuity even in the face of a severe disruption event.

 While 62% experienced between 1 and 5 business interruption events in the last 12 months

•  Only 49% had a business continuity strategy for more than 2 years, but 34% have yet to implement a solution.
•  36% of Best-in-Class companies increased their budget allocated to business continuity over the past twelve months
• 56% cited demonstrating a ROI as being the chief barrier in implementing a business contuity strategy

I attended a talk by Richard Seroter whose topic was “Exploiting SOA Strategies for Software Solutions”.
Details are here: http://www.ieee-bv-cs.org/meetings/

The industry chatter over Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has subsided and analysts have even provocatively proclaimed that “SOA is dead.” However, utility (e.g. “cloud”) computing has risen as a viable architecture pattern, and once again SOA is front and center.

Richard Seroter is a solutions architect at Amgen and author of SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 (Packt Publishing, 2009), as he looks at what SOA really is, how to build to that pattern, and how to use SOA strategies to unlock legacy assets and leverage new assets in the cloud.

You know you are not the typical tourist when you find yourself with your significant other in Paris, getting all giggly and excited while dragging him towards the Grande Arch to go visit Musee de L’informatique.  You won’t find Mona Lisa there, neither the Thinker, nor would you find impressionist paintings.  What you will find is the information technology museum.  It is the first of its kind in Europe, opened in April 2008.  The museum retraces the evolution of information technology from the first calculators before 1940 to the present day.
Website: www.grandearche.com/musee-de-l-informatique

We are really in the ether now, quiet heavenly!

e·the·re·al  (-thîr-l)

2. Highly refined; delicate. See Synonyms at airy.3. a. Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.b. Not of this world; spiritual.4. Chemistry Of or relating to ether.