Industry Notes and News

Study by OHSU expert says a 40 percent hike in IT workforce will be needed to move U.S. healthcare toward a paperless system that controls costs and reduces medical errors
If the U.S. healthcare system moves toward wider adoption of advanced information technology systems to control health care costs, reduce medical errors and improve patient care, […]

Intel and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) announced they have agreed to work together to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs. Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content. Intel will also join the board of OLPC.
OLPC is a non-profit […]

Yes, the license that everyone simultaneously lives by and seems to disagree with is going to be revised. Sooner than later, or so it seems by the article. We’ll have to wait to see if it’s good or bad.
NEW YORK - Seeking to relieve patent licensing worries by the open-source community, industry heavyweights here at […]

IBM to Lay Off 13,000 Worldwide
It’s still sad to see a company that jump-started an entire industry get so bad that it has to resort to layoffs. They were one of the old-school companies that provided ‘cradle-to-grave’ care for their people and never had a layoff of any kind.