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Epic EHR Platform Tops KLAS Health Care IT Software Rankings
Health care IT research firm KLAS recently unveiled its list of the top software platforms in health care, with Epic Systems at the top of its Overall Software Vendors Rankings. For the survey, KLAS looked at such application categories as Acute Care Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Ambulatory EMR (over 75 physicians) and Practice Management. For…
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IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing, Snaps Up Green Hat
Technology giant IBM announced it has completed the acquisition of Platform Computing, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. On Oct. 11, 2011, IBM announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the company, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management…
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Creating IT Futures: Looking for a Few Good VARs
Are you looking to hire in 2012 but want to give something back to the industry as well? CompTIA’s Creating IT Futures Foundation is looking for a few good VARs to volunteer for its IT-Ready Apprentice Program. The program, announced in fall 2011, provides employers with IT-Ready Apprentices who have been trained by CompTIA and…
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Sign of the Times: Now Hiring
The overall unemployment rate is slowly inching downward, and an informal survey of solution providers shows that channel executives are quickly bolstering their staffs as customers gear-up to spend on long-delayed IT projects and invest in new technologies that will help their businesses save money, enhance productivity, or become more flexible. Currently, the general unemployment…
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Android Tablets
Android Tablets Care for some Ice Cream Sandwich on that tablet? Plenty of manufacturers will oblige when they roll out the so-called version Android 4.0 on a slew of new tablets that will offer bigger screens, lighter weights and more than enough processing power to rumble with the iPad. Ultrabooks Good bye netbook, hello ultrabook.…
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1. Microsoft Is Leaving
1. Microsoft Is Leaving Microsoft was one of the Consumer Electronics Show’s biggest draws. Each year, it would kick off the event and set the tone for the rest of the week. But now that Microsoft is leaving, what can the CEA do to attract a Microsoft-like company? Chances are, very little. 2. Where’s Apple?…
