IBM's "Watson" supercomputer is on a roll. After beating a pair of previous Jeopardy champions handily this week, Watson is taking on the world of medicine, IBM announced Thursday.  Big Blue officials said that the company will work with voice recognition firm Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) to integrate the smaller company's voice technologies into Linux-based Watson in order to help adapt it for use in the healthcare industry.

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Two experts who shared their experiences on implementing Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles for health information exchanges (HIEs) confirmed the utility and value of IHE profiles during the “Experiences Implementing IHE Profiles in the Real World” educational session. 

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Wi-Fi Alliance, a global non-profit industry association of hundreds of leading companies devoted to the proliferation of Wi-Fi technology across devices and market segments, has recently announced finalizing an agreement with Continua Health Alliance to promote Wi-Fi networking.

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Open source software could be a key element to the government's new IT strategy due in Spring - and Whitehall has told its major suppliers to offer more open source options, says Bill McCluggage, deputy government CIO.

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Systems integrators took on a disapproving audience of open source advocates this week after the government told its biggest suppliers to explain why its open source policy has been thwarted for so long.

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The government has reiterated its commitment to using open source software based on its "inherent flexibility" and says it will be the preferred option when cost is not an issue.

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Despite the demonstrated utility of GIS for health applications, there are perceived problems in low resource settings: GIS software can be expensive and complex; input data are often of low quality. This study aimed to test the appropriateness of new, inexpensive and simple GIS tools in poorly resourced areas of a developing country.

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In industry and the technology community at large many consider open source to be somewhat of a social movement centered around the free exchange of technological ideas; however across the DoD, where pragmatism so common in the Information Technology (IT) landscape, open source software (OSS) is often simply the best solution to the military’s technology challenges.

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The United States is embarking this year on a grand experiment in the government-driven adoption of technology — ambitious, costly and potentially far-reaching in impact. The goal is to improve health care and to reduce its long-term expense by moving the doctors and hospitals from ink and paper into the computer age — through a shift to digital patient records.

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In the last year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has gone from 38 employees to 138 due to the HITECH Act, said Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director at the Office of Interoperability & Standards at the ONC

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