Monthly Archives: June 2009
Are you regularly defragmenting your disks?
When most people want to purchase a new computer or upgrade their current one, they focus on finding a CPU with the quickest speed, the most computing cores, or the most RAM they can afford. However, they may be overlooking the most likely reason for computing slowdowns: fragmentation in the disks.
Disk drives claim the dubious [...]
Microsoft sees the future in gloStream
President Obama is talking a lot about how the U.S. health care system needs to be modernized—and one company helping modernize it is gloStream, which offers the only electronic medical record (EMR) on the market embedded with Microsoft Office.
EMRs allow health care providers to exchange information electronically. They can look up patient records, prescribe drugs, [...]
Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — A National Survey of Physicians
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Background: Electronic health records have the potential to improve the delivery of health care services. However, in the United States, physicians have been slow to adopt such systems. This study assessed physicians’ adoption of outpatient electronic health records, their satisfaction with such systems, the perceived effect of the systems on the quality of care, [...]
New Swine Flu Outbreak: This Time the Virus may be in Your Computer
As if the scare from the Swine Flu virus were not enough, some opportunistic and malicious hackers have started spreading a computer virus with emails of the same name. Otherwise also known as the Navia.a virus, it seems to have surfaced during the height of the Avian Flu scare. However, the computer virus may have [...]
Survey Shows Insider Snooping on the Rise
Cyber-Ark Software, a security solutions company, recently released a survey showing that as much as 35 percent of people within an organization (that’s one out of three) admit to accessing corporate information without authorization. Furthermore, an alarming 74 percent claim they could circumvent the controls currently in place to prevent that access. The study polled [...]
Big IT Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn
What are the key technology lessons that small and mid-sized businesses can learn from large enterprises?
Be proactive. Be prepared. Take security concerns seriously. Always watch for ways to cut costs.
That just might sum up the advice that enterprise-grade IT shops would give smaller businesses about how to avoid costly IT mistakes.
But what are some specific [...]
Is Microsoft Office Coming to the iPhone?
Rumors abound that we may soon see Microsoft’s Office suite on mobile devices. Some people are speculating that it may even be made available to the (gasp!) Apple iPhone. What is sure is the ubiquitous office productivity suite is making its way online, onto to the Internet cloud, and one day may even be provided [...]
Are you Safeguarding your Data?
With the continuous proliferation of data and its increasing importance to business, it has become critical to implement measures to safeguard it. One such measure is to make sure you have a data protection, backup, and recovery system in place. The threat of data loss from hardware failure, malware, or disaster is very real. A [...]
Good News for Small Businesses in the Bailout Act
Small businesses will get a helping hand with some key expenses under President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan, signed into law on February 17. Around $282 billion of the bill is devoted to tax cuts, including breaks for small businesses. Some of the highlights include:
Small businesses will be able to more quickly deduct the cost [...]
Why a PDF is Best for Sharing Files