CareFirst Joins Partnership of Blues Plans as Owner of NASCO
...eld plans," said John Ladaga, President and CEO of NASCO. "Our solutions leverage true economies of scale, which is resonating with CEOs and cios across Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. As Plans face economic challenges never before experienced, they are turning to proven, scalable and affordab...Edifecs(TM) and Axway Announce a Partnership Targeting Innovative HIPAA 5010 Migration Solutions.
...going solution, skill, and service gaps in their future deployment efforts. The challenges and expense of a version 5010 migration has many healthcare cios exploring innovative options to meet their implementation needs. With this in mind, Edifecs5010 (TM) Migration was developed as an end-to-end solut...Michigan Physicians Gain From New AMA and MSMS Partnership to Improve Physician Practice Efficiency
...rporation: Compuware Corporation makes IT rock around the world, helping cios optimize IT performance to achieve business goals. Compuware solutions acc...ity and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling cios to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost co...Agito Networks Named to the First Annual InformationWeek Startup 50 Listing
... InformationWeek magazine reaches 440,000 business technology professionals at more than a quarter million unique locations. Its mission is to help cios and IT executives define and frame their business technology objectives. InformationWeek.com delivers breaking news, blogs, high-impact image galleri...Massachusetts Studies Reveal Importance of Incentives in Healthcare Technology Adoption
...documentation systems. The survey revealed that 18 percent of hospital cios and executives who responded claimed CPOE is "in routine use," while anothe..., or roughly 3 percent of the physician population of Massachusetts, and 27 cios and hospital executives representing 43 facilities, or approximately 60 per...EMRConsultant.com Supports the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
... Since 2004, EMRConsultant has provided almost 10,000 recommendations to physicians, and their matching technology improves daily. Physicians and cios interested in Electronic Health Records can obtain a free customized analysis of their health information technology needs at EMRConsultant.com, or ca...Five Wisconsin CIOs named top in nation
Madison, Wis. Five Wisconsin chief information officers have made it onto CIO magazine 's Agile 100, because of their ability to react quickly to rapidly changing situations and environments while positively contributing to their own organizations' development of new growth opportunities. Th...IT leadership is not just for CIOs anymore
We live in interesting times. Not so long ago, we IT practitioners may as well have dressed in capes and pointy hats with stars and moons on them. What we did was a mystery to the rest of the company and had a whiff of magic. Then like a magic trick gone bad, there was a huge puff of smoke on Wal...Computerworld: Three Wisconsin CIOs among top 100 IT leaders
Three Wisconsin CIOs made Computerworld magazines recently released list of the top 100 IT leaders in 2004 . They were: Christopher A. Graham, vice president and CIO of Church Mutual Insurance Company , in Merrill. Church Mutual provides insurance plans to religious organizations, including...Fusion 2005 symposium aims to bring CIOs to the boardroom
Madison, Wis. CIOs and other information-technology movers will get a crash course in getting their foot in the boardroom door at the Fusion 2005 CEO-CIO Symposium on March 2 in the Fluno Center. The event, presented by the Wisconsin IT Directors Council and produced in conjunction with W...Wisconsin CIOs look for an IT tipping point
Madison, Wis. 2005 is pulling some long-term information technology projects into the spotlight. CIOs in Wisconsin are watching for tipping points, where incremental developments in IT turn into radical new advances in health care, education and other industries. In the days leading up to the...CEOs and CIOs must be 'joined at the hip'
Cagigal, front right, and Harvey said they work together so well because they know they share the same goals. Madison, Wis. The president and CEO of Alliant Energy said Thursday that chief executive officers and the chief information officers must be "joined at the hip" if information techn...What do CIOs want? Fusion2007 speakers weigh in
Madison and Milwaukee, Wis. - By now, after nearly a decade of well publicized information technology meltdowns, it's pretty clear what chief executive officers want in their technology leaders. The ability to consistently deliver projects on time and on budget, combined with an expectation th...Fusion 2007: In e-legalities, CIOs and lawyers combine to provide business value
Madison, Wis. - The prospect of e-discovery and the possibility - make that probability - of data breaches are enough to make any chief executive reach for antacids, but if the CEO's top technologist doesn't mind consulting with the legal team, a great deal of heartburn can be avoided. That wa...Visions: IT exec says CIOs must be ready to help companies ramp up trade
Madison, Wis. - Chief technologists who heretofore have not had to worry much about helping their companies ramp up foreign trade may soon be asked to add another dimension to their business contributions - accommodating a larger presence in the global market. With Wisconsin increasing its ex...With Sarbanes-Oxley, compliance takes center stage for CIOs
If, five years ago, you asked a group of chief information officers for their number-one issue, they might have said storage capacity, security or bandwidth. Today, the consensus issue is compliance, particularly with the new spate of securities legislation, highlighted by Congress's passage of ...