Information technology – Insight Sciences

Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind?
Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com

The U.S. leads the world in healthcare expenditures – an astounding $2.7 trillion in 2012 and rising every year. Yet in one recent study of medical outcomes in the world’s most highly developed countries we ranked last. By any measure …

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Getting beyond the hype of disruption in healthcare and focusing on actionable innovation (healthcareguy.com)
Junior Healthcare Associate (NYC) (attorneyjobsinnyc.wordpress.com)
Entrepreneurship on the Rise at Wharton (mbastartupblog.com)
7 predictions for the future of health care technology (venturebeat.com)

Best grad degree programs in big data analytics

April 15, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

(via Institute for Advanced Analytics | Dr. Michael Rappa · Survey of Graduate Degree Programs in Analytics)

Cognizant (CTS) hiring Project Associate – B.E/B.Tech, B.Sc (fresherspath.wordpress.com)

With $1 Trillion at Stake, Enterprise Technology Gets Its Star Turn :

February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Big Tech: With $1 Trillion at Stake, Enterprise Technology Gets Its Star Turn
Michael V. Copeland, wired.com

Every 10 to 15 years the enterprise market goes through an upheaval where the next generation of technology replaces the old. We’re in the early stages of one of those big displacements right now, where huge companies are brought to …

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So What If Chief Marketing Officers Outspend CIOs On Enterprise Tech? (readwrite.com)
Cisco’s John Chambers Has Found A New $14 Trillion Market (CSCO) (businessinsider.com)
Arming the Enterprise (stevetodd.typepad.com)

Technology Ranks World’s Most-Trusted Industry

January 23, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Technology Ranks World’s Most-Trusted Industry in 2013
Zoe Fox, mashable.com

The technology industry has been ranked most-trusted for the second consecutive year, ahead of the automotive, and food and beverage industries, according to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer.”As an industry, I think tech companies pre-anticipate a…

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Technology Ranks World’s Most-Trusted Industry in 2013 (mashable.com)
Technology Ranks #1 As World’s Most Trusted Industry (powertolearn.typepad.com)
Video: Edelman’s Debate On ‘Trust’ At Churchill Club (siliconvalleywatcher.com)
Richard Edelman At Churchill Club On Building Trust (siliconvalleywatcher.com)
Finance Least-Trusted Industry for Third Year in Edelman Survey – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
2013 Edelman Trust Barometer Finds a Crisis in Leadership (edelman.com)
In Tech We Trust (edelman.com)

Why health IT is the core of reform

December 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

Why IT is the core of the healthcare renaissance
kevinmd.com

Warning! I am a practicing doctor who sees real patients using an electronic medical record (EMR). My sole agenda is to provide the best patient care. I have no financial stake in information technology (IT). However, unlike the editorial board at…

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Practice Fusion EMR Launches Doctors Appointment And Reviews Site Patient Fusion With 27K Physicians (techcrunch.com)
Evaluation of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at Large Urban Primary Care Sexual Health Centre (plosone.org)
Opportunity Cost of EMRs (medcitynews.com)
The Future of Health I.T (curemd.wordpress.com)
FindZebra – a physician’s search engine for rare diseases (reg4all.wordpress.com)
What I Didn’t See At HIMSS: Human-Centered Design (medcitynews.com)

Why I Never Post Job Openings

November 30, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Eric V. Holtzclaw, inc.com

LEAN FORWARD

Instead, I give candidates permission to stalk me. They should find out what I’m up to, track me down, introduce themselves, let me get to know them. It works.

People often ask me how to get a job at my company, User Insight. T…

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Why I Never Post Job Openings

Job Hunting? 160+ Openings at Tumblr, Disney and More (mashable.com)
Silicon Alley Insider: TOP PAY: These 10 Tech Companies Have The Most $100,000+ Job Openings (businessinsider.com)

Redo the resume for shrinking attention spans

November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

The average recruiter spends six seconds on your resume. So this is what you do.

It’s frightening. You’ll spend most of your waking life at a job, yet, according to a new study by TheLadders, the average recruiter spends just six seconds…

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gyroVoice: Want a Job? Here Are Six LinkedIn Tips (forbes.com)
InnovateCV innovates the resume, the cover letter, and the application … right out of existence (venturebeat.com)

Jobs for the Future (JFF) uses online intelligence to find jobs in most demand

February 3, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

joe explaining software (Photo credit: Wonderlane)

In contrast to traditional survey based means of measuring job growth which can be quite inaccurate Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) John Dorrer uses ethnographic/online methods to analyze job postings (mining nearly 100,000 unique online postings for the three months ending February 14) in real time to extract the skills employers are asking for right now, then works with community colleges to make sure their students are being prepared to deliver.